Hi there!👋🏻

This is a channel devoted to topics in Language, Technology, and Mind.

These three are deeply intertwined - think of natural language processing (speech recognition, text mining, and so on); cognitive science; psycholinguistics; artificial intelligence, and many more.

Here you'll see:
🔸reviews of interesting articles & literature;
🔸original interviews with academics and people from the industry;
🔸curious concepts and facts;
🔸recommendations with podcasts, blogs, and so on.

You can use these hashtags to navigate through the content:
#LTM_language
#LTM_technology
#LTM_mind

I am open to new ideas — you are more than welcome to express your thoughts/suggestions.
Subscribe and invite your friends, as they say :)

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Приветствую!👋🏻

Это канал на тему языка, технологий и разума.

Звучит абстрактно? Тогда вот лишь немногие примеры того, как эти сферы тесно переплетены: естественная обработка языка (те же чат-боты и голосовые помощники), когнитивная наука, психолингвистика, искусственный интеллект и так далее.

Канал я запускаю, чтобы делиться вдохновением и интересными идеями – возможно, здесь ты почерпнешь что-то новое для себя :)

Что в планах?
🔸обзоры на статьи и тематическую литературу;
🔸оригинальные интервью с профессорами и людьми из индустрии;
🔸любопытные концепты и факты;
🔸рекомендации подкастов, блогов и так далее.

Открыта к новым мыслям, комментариям и предложениям по контенту. Подписывайся и приводи друзей, которых может заинтересовать тематика канала!

P.S. Посты будут на русском и английском – потому что я могу)

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А вот и первое интервью подъехало!

Мой собеседник – Мачей – учится на Ph.D. в Варшавском университете, где преподает философию языка. Кроме того, он ведет дебаты и философию в старших классах.

За плечами Мачея – годы изучения когнитивных наук, математики и разных сфер философии.

Мы встретились и записали интервью в столовой универа под киберпанковские звуки автоматов с едой.

Что первичнее – язык или разум? Почему парадоксы окружают нашу жизнь и как они двигают науку вперед? Как философия связана с современными технологиями?

Об этом и не только читайте в статье по ссылке :)

P.S. рекомендую открыть в браузере – шрифт там посимпатичнее будет)

#LTM_rus

The first interview has arrived!

Maciej - the hero of the interview - is doing Ph.D. at the University of Warsaw, where he teaches philosophy of language. He also gives debate and philosophy classes to high school students.

In Maciej's background are years of studying cognitive science, mathematics, and various fields of philosophy.

We met in the university canteen and recorded the interview to the accompaniment of cyberpunk sounds of vending machines.

What is primary - language or mind? Why paradoxes surround our lives and how do they advance science? How philosophy is connected to state-of-the-art technologies?

Answers to these and more you can find in the article :)

P.S. I recommend to open it in the browser - the font is more enjoyable there.

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#LTM_mind

I discovered that the link to the interview with Maciej doesn't work properly in a computer version — so here's the link to the same article on Medium.

After a period of silence, finally feeling ready to post some exciting interviews from winter + deliver more new content.

Stay tuned ~

#LTM_language
#LTM_mind

In January, I planned a short trip to Saarbrücken to check out the city and talk to professors from Saarland University.

Vera Demberg was one of the people I eagerly wanted to meet. During her short break between work calls, we managed to discuss some exciting topics:

🔹How do people choose what they are going to say?
🔹Are NLP trends facing a deadlock?
🔹What do humans know about the language that machines still don’t?

Read about these and more in the new article :)

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#LTM_language
#LTM_eng

Have you ever wondered how the advancement of technology affects our interaction with it?

That's exactly what Iona Gessinger studies. She has gone a long path from a linguist in Romance Languages to a researcher in human-computer interaction. She did research in Germany, France, Brazil, and Ireland.

Out of many possible topics, we discussed the following:

🔸How linguists can be helpful in crime investigation?
🔸Do we really treat machines way differently than humans?
🔸What voice assistants and robots should be like?

Check out the new article to learn more!

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#LTM_technology
#LTM_eng

Badr M. Abdullah is a Ph.D. researcher in human speech processing at Saarland University.

As he put in his bio, he conducts "interdisciplinary research at the intersection of linguistics, speech science, cognitive science, and machine learning".

When I was in Saarbrücken, I couldn't not ask him for an interview. We met in the university canteen (Mensa) at lunch and discussed Badr's career, research interests, and other exciting topics.

🔹How do humans process speech?
🔹Is AI still far from us in perceiving the spoken language?
🔹How do Machine Learning and Cognitive Science interact with Speech Science?

Answers to these and more are already in the article :)

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#LTM_language
#LTM_eng

Since this channel featured 3 (!) interviews with professors at Saarland University (where I study now), I decided it would be fair to share a bit more about university life and the city itself.

Today I caught some inspiration and wrote about 5 things that caused some.. cultural shock, I guess? - when I moved to Saarbrücken.

I didn't capture everything, of course, as there's a limit to human patience when reading a text. Hopefully, next time I will shed light on some other nuances, including more positive ones :)

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#LTM_life