Linguistic Insight: Move Over, Parrots

February 7, 2020

DarkCyber noted an item sure to be of interest to the linguists laboring in the world of chat bots, NLP, and inference. “Penguins Follow Same Linguistic Patterns As Humans, Study Finds” states:

Words more frequently used by the animals are briefer, and longer words are composed of extra but briefer syllables, researchers say.

The write up also reveals:

Information compression is a general principle of human language.

Yep. Penguins better than parrots? Well, messier for sure.

Stephen E Arnold, February 7, 2020

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Natural language processing, News

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