Opinion

Mind your language

Voice is fast becoming the default interface for the next wave of internet users. Indians rarely stay within one language when conversing. Most speech systems are not built for this and treat ...
Facts you learned in school that are no longer true. School curriculums contain plenty of useful subjects: algebra, grammar, ...
Wanjiku endures cruel taunts from Mrs Mwangi in her elite school. One secret recording shatters the teacher’s career and ...
We don’t need to play a gotcha game dressed up as a grammar rule. There are clearly dangling modifiers that would bother no ...
An Istanbul court on Tuesday sentenced a veteran Turkish journalist to two years and six months in prison on charges of ...
Sperm whales, which make clicking sounds to communicate, use different “vowels” in ways similar to human speech ...
Online sexism is no longer primarily a series of isolated or individual opinions but has evolved into a system-level ...
Whether it’s a judicious use of the word “yinz” or the flattening of vowels in words like “out” or “down,” Pitts­burghers have a distinctive way of speaking — but for us, it’s totally natural. “That’s ...
Adverbials are words or phrases that give more information about the verb by explaining when, where, or how something happens. I discovered fronted adverbials earlier today. In the sentence above ...
Hezbollah Acknowledged Truce but Did Not Say if It Would Abide by It It was unclear if the 10-day cease-fire agreed upon by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Lebanese government was being ...
Abstract: Semantic sentence matching plays an essential role in resolving many problems in natural language processing (NLP) field, it has gained increasing research focus and shown great improvements ...