/newsroom/taxonomy/term/7777/all en /newsroom/vivek-astvansh Sun, 17 Dec 2023 05:06:23 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 307545 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/ai-can-learn-patterns-human-language-342712 <p>Human languages are notoriously complex, and linguists have long thought it would be impossible to teach a machine how to analyze speech sounds and word structures in the way humans do. But researchers from Ď㽶ĘÓƵ, MIT, and Cornell University have taken a step in this direction. They have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can learn the rules and patterns of human languages on its own.</p> Fri, 07 Oct 2022 20:33:32 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 288415 at /newsroom /newsroom/timothy-odonnell Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:40:23 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 196648 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/washington-post-weight-words-284612 <p><strong>Jacob Levy</strong> offers a deeply thoughtful meditation on Trump’s use of language — on the power it has exerted over Republican voters and the GOP Congress, and on the folly of imagining that his words alone won’t do serious damage to American political life, as long as he is constrained from acting.</p> <p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/02/07/happy-hour-roundup-1292/">The Washington Post</a></p> Thu, 08 Feb 2018 19:48:20 +0000 nathan.menezes@mail.mcgill.ca 32943 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/being-musician-can-help-you-decipher-language-loud-environments-283335 <p>A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that musical training helps people hear speech syllables in loud environments, and has shown how this happens. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers Yi Du and Robert Zatorre monitored brain function as musicians and non-musicians listened to speech fragments and varying background noise levels.</p> Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:57:48 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32766 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/reality-accent-change-269983 <p> Fri, 01 Sep 2017 17:47:30 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 32230 at /newsroom /newsroom/robert-leckey Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23910 at /newsroom /newsroom/michel-paradis Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 22888 at /newsroom