Slanguage: How '6-7' makes sense even though it means nothing

The expression "6-7" spread like wildfire last year, making its way outside the realm of usual adolescent slang and into the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Some Dogs Are ‘Gifted Word Learners’ That Learn Language by Eavesdropping—Just Like Human Toddlers

New research suggests prodigious pups that already have large vocabularies can learn new words by listening in on their ...

Finnish children learn media literacy at age 3. It’s protection against Russian propaganda

For decades, the Nordic nation has woven the ability to recognize disinformation into its national curriculum for students as ...
Psychology Today

Where Is the Future?

Across cultures, people literally point to the future in different directions. Our hands reveal how language, writing, and ...

A lesson in language; Understanding slang

Judy Cohen from Lakeside Education Services gets us up to speed on some of the terms and phrases her students are using.
IEEE

P-BERT: Toward Long Sequence Modeling by Enabling Language Representation With Prefix Sequence Compression, Soft Position Embedding, and Data Augmentation for Patent Relevance ...

Abstract: Recent works have increasingly adopted pre-trained language models, such as BERT, to model technical semantics for patent relevance assessment. However, existing truncation and divide-merge ...