Social media and mobile phones are major disruptors of face-to-face conversations. Recent research has conclusively ...

So many kids (and adults!) struggle with pragmatic language skills due to having autism or another learning disability. Not ...

Language learning is often a daunting prospect. Many of us wish we had learned a language to a higher level at school. But ...

Linguistics and computer science researchers have discovered some of the root causes of why AI large language models perform poorly in human-like conversations. When you have a conversation today, ...

Unlike the carefully scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy and incomplete, full of false starts, interruptions and people talking ...

In stage 1, researchers pre-train the cross-lingual MOSS-base model with public text and code corpora. In stage 2, they first perform supervised fine-tuning (SFT) with synthetic conversational data ...

Morten H. Christiansen receives funding from the A&S New Frontier Grant Program at Cornell University. He is affiliated with the School of Communication and Culture and Interacting Minds Centre at ...

Here at the clinic we have English only speaking employees and bilingual (English & Spanish) speaking employees. There seems to be some tension going on because the bilingual staff are talking to each ...

You may be surprised to learn that conversational intelligence and AI have actually been around for many years. From Facebook’s (now Meta) introduction of Messenger ...