Corpus linguistics is the scholarly technique of searching historic databases to gather information on the use of important words or phrases. In the pending U.S. Supreme Court on the Second Amendment ...

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Corpus Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) are two of the transformative forces in research across the sciences and humanities, reshaping how insights are gleaned from vast text and ...

The precision and promise of a data-driven society has stumbled these past years, serving up some disturbing—even damning—results: facial recognition software that can’t recognize Black faces, human ...

In our previous four posts we've argued that LLM AIs should not be in the driver's seat of ordinary meaning inquiries. In so stating, we don't deny that AI tools have certain advantages over most ...

The COVID-19 pandemic was still raging when a federal judge in Florida made the fateful decision to type “sanitation” into the search bar of the Corpus of Historical American English. Many parts of ...