Words
Decoding ‘noisy’ language in daily life
April 29, 2013
Study shows how people rationally interpret linguistic input.
Mining physicians’ notes for medical insights
October 31, 2012
A new approach to algorithmically distinguishing words with multiple possible meanings could help find useful data in electronic medical records.
Explaining the origins of word order using information theory
October 10, 2012
Researchers believe that information theory — the discipline that gave us digital communication — can explain differences between human languages.
Explained: Femtoseconds and attoseconds
September 18, 2012
As electronic and optical devices get ever faster, terms for ever-smaller increments of time are coming into wider use.
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