Journey through time to uncover the rich history of how ancient Chinese pronunciation was rediscovered. Chinese scholars have ...

In 2024, internet slang terms like "boop" (a gentle poke to someone's head or nose) and "chef's kiss" (an expression or gesture to indicate that something is excellent) were added to the Oxford ...

The dictionary isn’t forever. Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed.

Third, we further employ the classified sub-dictionaries technique to achieve better efficiency on index building, trapdoor generating and query. Lastly, we analyze the security of the proposed ...

The meaning of the collective noun youth has been constant in all dictionaries from 1848 through to today’s date. We say that is a powerful indicator as to what the ordinary meaning was.” ...

Abstract: Sparse signal representations and approximations from overcomplete dictionaries have become an invaluable tool recently. In this paper, we develop a new, heuristic, graph-structured, sparse ...

Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, ...