Half of a word's meaning is simply a three dimensional summary of the rewards associated with it, according to an analysis of millions of blog entries undertaken by researchers. We make choices about ...

Auditory illusions, like how a word begins to sound meaningless when repeated, offer clues into the structure of language.

For simple user queries, a search engine can reliably find the correct content using keyword matching alone. A “red toaster” query pulls up all of the products with “toaster” in the title or ...

This talk by Elisabetta Ježek presents linguistic evidence why we need a context-sensitive model of lexical semantics to account for how lexical information, cognitive knowledge, pragmatic inference ...

What if a map of the brain could help us decode people’s inner thoughts? UC Berkeley scientists have taken a step in that direction by building a “semantic atlas” that shows in vivid colors and ...