Archive - Language & Technology

Words of War: How Language Shapes Propaganda

Insights from a study on linguistic variation of media types in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian war

Jun 23 •

Anastasiia Vestel

How machine translation flattens cultural nuance

Some words are ‘untranslatable’, or rather, they resist translation, certainly, the kind of translation that is achieved through machine translation.

Jun 12 •

James O'Sullivan

May 2025

Is topic modelling obsolete?

It wasn’t so long ago that topic modelling was all the rage, particularly in the digital humanities. Techniques like Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA…

May 10 •

James O'Sullivan

Tracing Knowledge: From Metrics to Meaning

Takeaways from the TU Berlin Workshop on LLMs for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (April 2025)

May 7 •

Sofía Aguilar-Valdez

April 2025

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Apr 25 •

James O'Sullivan

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