Ancestors

Toot

Written by Lingthusiasm on 2024-11-22 at 02:55

Humans learn a new word by attaching it to a set of concepts in the real world. Computers “learn” a new word by creating associations with other words

In this episode we get enthusiastic about how computers process language with Dr. Emily M. Bender

https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/98-helping-computers-decode-sentences-interview-with-emily-m-bender

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Descendants

Written by Lingthusiasm on 2024-11-22 at 02:59

You can find more links to lots of things mentioned in this episode on the shownotes page

https://lingthusiasm.com/post/767803572750581760/lingthusiasm-episode-98-helping-computers-decode

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Written by Lingthusiasm on 2024-11-22 at 03:01

This month's bonus episode is about three places where we can learn things about linguistics!

Help us keep the show running and get access to over 90 bonus episodes by becoming a patron:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/115117867

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Written by Lingthusiasm on 2024-11-22 at 03:09

Missed the previous episode?

Check out our ~spooky~ episode about possession here:

https://lingthusiasm.com/post/764631220667695104/ooooooh-our-possession-episode-oooooooohh

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Written by Lingthusiasm on 2024-11-22 at 03:11

You can read the transcript for 'Helping computers decode sentences - Interview with Emily M. Bender' here:

https://lingthusiasm.com/post/767803835730231296/transcript-episode-98

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Written by Lingthusiasm on 2024-11-22 at 03:18

Don't forget to take the Lingthusiasm Listener Survey! It's our chance to get to know our listeners, and there's some fun linguistics experiments for you to participate in (the questions are different this year, so feel free to take it again!)

Closes December 15th

bit.ly/lingthusiasmsurvey24

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Written by Laurel Stvan on 2024-11-22 at 03:19

@lingthusiasm Thank you! This was an awesome interview!

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