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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LINGUISTS must often correct lay people's misconceptions of what they do. Their job is not to be experts in “correct” grammar, ready at any moment to smack your wrist for a split infinitive. What they ...