Metadata is familiar enough of a concept to the average person. We know it from movie metadata (director, release date, actors, etc.) and book metadata (author, cover photo, font, ISBN, etc.). Even if one is not familiar with the concept[...]

With his 1967 essay, “The Death of the Author,” theorist Roland Barthes dealt a hefty blow to the authoritarian grip authors had over literature. “Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where[...]

The Dutch have always been keen on networking, whether inland with their interconnected canals, or overseas in their swashbuckling trade voyages to the East. These are broad historical generalizations, of course, but serve as a metaphor for Jaap van der[...]

We have recently blogged about the dangers of NLP in replicating gender bias present within natural languages. The scope of the last blog was confined to major breakthroughs by Google, but there has been much research examining gender bias in[...]

As of now, there isn’t much that separates humans from machines. But the few differences that remain are big discrepancies that have to do with the lived experience of humans, as well as the ontological differences that markedly differentiate us[...]

Each year, we ask ourselves the same thing: what are some developments in the language industry that we should keep an eye out for? The kinds of issues and events that arise tell us much about the state and direction[...]