For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new generations of innovators in AI and language ...

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The contents of this article are a pragmatic, simplified, and adapted version of John Austin’s (1962) work on speech act theory (SAT), first presented at Oxford University between 1951 and 1954 and at ...

The technology is one of the strongest examples yet of how artificial intelligence can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people’s lives. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...

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I still remember the first time I took my class outside for a descriptive writing lesson. It was a crisp fall morning, and I handed each student a pine cone, asking them to describe it as if the ...