Distinct neural pathways are important for different aspects of language processing, researchers have discovered, studying patients with language impairments caused by neurodegenerative diseases.

In a sentence, the verb describes the main action or state of the subject. Different types of verbs have different functions: A sentence is built up from words. Sometimes words are grouped together in ...

Grammar refers to the structure of language and how different words fit together. Words can be grouped according to their function, or what they ‘do’, in a sentence. This video shows how grammar rules ...

Researchers at the University of Amsterdam are using neural networks to help a statistical machine translation systems learn what all human translators know—that the best translation of a word often ...

Newly announced modifications to the autocorrect feature used on iPhones will better understand a word’s context in a text message, saving users some blushes. By Callie Holtermann Apple on Monday ...

The news: Software called TextFooler can trick natural-language processing (NLP) systems into misunderstanding text just by replacing certain words in a sentence with synonyms. In tests, it was able ...