Conjunction junction, what's your function? Hooking up people using similar phrases, according to one Texas Tech University researcher. Molly Ireland, a visiting assistant professor in the Department ...

Subtleties in the language people use may reveal physiological stress. Psychologists found that tracking certain words used by volunteers in randomly collected audio clips reflected stress-related ...

Remember the last time you disagreed with someone? How many times did you hurl an accusatory ‘you’ at them? Or did 'me' and 'I' take center stage? These little function words can be surprisingly ...

Research by Tom De Ruyck and Stephan Ludwig finds that shared ‘function word’ usage among MROC members is correlated to the amount of community activity. In mining online text-based conversations for ...

Most of us like to think we're in control of our communication. We choose what to say, what opinions to share, what feelings ...

In a presentation at Text Analytics Forum 2018, co-located with KMWorld, Kiki Adams, head of science at Receptiviti, focused on the importance of function words in text analytics. Most text analysis ...

Words are not random units. Rather, they follow hidden linguistic structures that demonstrate how language generates meaning ...

In the good old days, “exact” meant exact. Then things got fuzzier. Now they’re about to get downright blurry. On Friday afternoon, Google announced another change to the way exact match targeting ...