When it comes to using “big data” to analyze the patterns of society, the conversation inevitably turns to social media. Yet the world’s news media actually offers larger and richer insights into ...

AI uses a modern Large Language Model (LLM), but it doesn't simply retrieve facts from a database. Instead, it navigates a ...

What someone says out loud about a group of people and how they actually feel about them aren't always the same thing, but a person's true sentiments about other groups of people can be revealed by ...

The global rise of online scams poses escalating social risks, yet the underlying linguistic dynamics remain underexplored. Grounded in the Contextual Organization of Language in Deception (COLD) ...

Linguistic laws constitute one of the quantitative cornerstones of modern cognitive sciences and have been routinely investigated in written corpora, or in the equivalent transcription of oral corpora ...

Like learning math, from simple counting to solving complex equations, language learning happens in a similar stepwise fashion, with each new step building on previous knowledge. Brown (1973) outlines ...

A journey into the formal foundations of natural language began as Professor Ryan Nefdt delivered his inaugural lecture on 20 May. The University of Cape Town's (UCT) Mafeje Room at the Bremner ...