Sentences with phrase «computational linguists»

Built in 2008 by computational linguists, software engineers, grammar nerds, and language lovers in general, Grammarly was founded in 2008 by Alex Shevchenko and Max Lytvyn, Grammarly, who were dissatisfied with the typical spell - checkers you find in word processors.

To conduct the study, the researchers used four large databases of sentences that have been parsed grammatically: one from Charles University in Prague, one from Google, one from the Universal Dependencies Consortium (a new group of computational linguists), and a Chinese - language database from the Linguistic Dependencies Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania.

Not exact matches

The method, called computational Bayesian phylogenetics, forces researchers to explicitly quantify the uncertainty in the models, says linguist Claire Bowern of Yale University, a pioneer of the approach and co-author of the new study.

The first such computational efforts, done by biologists borrowing linguistic data, drew harsh responses from many linguists.

Other linguists argue that the computational models, built for genes that can only be inherited, deal poorly with languages that spread by diffusion.

Research on human language published in Science usually relies on computational methods, and is often criticized by linguists.