Here are our ‘chameleon words’:
🟢 LEARNING: From school desks 🎒, we moved on to machine learning. Today, this word is more often used in the context of algorithms.
🟢 CACHE: It used to be just a hiding place 📦, but now it is a critically important part of your device’s memory that ‘remembers’ everything.
🟢CORPUS: This is the main word for our department! 📚 Instead of ‘body,’ we now mean a linguistic corpus — billions of sentences that help AI understand human context.
Why is this important?
Applied linguists use special software to analyse these changes. 🔍This helps to create better search engines, more accurate translators, and even detect fake news based on text style. 🦾
😉 Come study with us to learn how to build such systems yourself.