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- Token - A fundamental unit of text that language models process, typically representing a word, subword, or character.
- Linguistics - The scientific study of language, examining its structure, meaning, use, acquisition, and change over time.
- Universal Grammar - Noam Chomsky's theory that humans are born with an innate language faculty containing a set of grammatical principles hard-wired into the brain.
- Decipherment - The discovery of the meaning, sound values, and structural rules of texts written in a script or language that is no longer understood, typically by combining linguistic, historical, and statistical reasoning.
- Tokenization - Breaking text into smaller units (tokens) that AI models can process.
- Lingua Franca - A common language adopted for communication between people whose native languages differ, enabling trade, diplomacy, science, and culture to operate across linguistic boundaries.
- Comprehensible Input - Stephen Krashen's hypothesis that languages are acquired primarily by understanding messages whose difficulty is slightly above the learner's current level, rather than by drilling rules or producing output.
- Keyword Mnemonic - Memory technique that links new information to a familiar keyword through a vivid mental image bridging the two.
- Pushdown Automaton - A type of automaton that augments a finite state machine with a stack, enabling it to recognize context-free languages.
- Parallel Text - A text presented alongside its translation into one or more other languages, used for language learning, translation studies, philology, and as the foundation for statistical and machine translation systems.
- JavaScript - A high-level, interpreted programming language that powers interactive web pages and modern applications across browsers, servers, and mobile platforms.
- Rosetta Stone - An ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with the same decree in three scripts that became the key to deciphering hieroglyphs, and a lasting metaphor for any artifact that unlocks understanding across unfamiliar systems.
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