The Department is pleased to announce that Lifeng Jin (Ohio State University) will give a computational linguistics talk on syntax acquisition. Children seem to learn their first languages ...

In every language, the most frequent word occurs twice as often as the second most frequent word. This phenomenon called ‘Zipf’s law’ is more than one century old, but until now, scientists have not ...

We break down what roles different types of words and phrases play within a sentence. There are many theories of syntax and different ways to represent grammatical structures, but one of the simplest ...