The startup builds natural language-understanding tools that take text, audio, video or images and try to capture meaning, as well as emotion and other expressions. According to the company, some of ...

The imaginative landscapes of artificial intelligence (AI) are offering us powerful views of our world. We're witnessing a fascinating phenomenon unfold—one that transcends the mere mechanics of ...

Pragmatics, the study of language in context, extends beyond the literal meanings of words to include the subtle inferences that speakers and listeners routinely make. A central phenomenon in this ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

Spoken language understanding (SLU) and dialogue systems form the backbone of interactive computing, enabling machines to interpret, process, and respond to human speech. These systems integrate ...

Veena D. Dwivedi receives funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and Brock University. Brock University provides funding as a ...