Con Slobodchikoff is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Northern Arizona University, and co-founder and Chief Scientist of Zoolingua, a company that is using artificial intelligence technology to decode animal communication. His research involves the study of animal languages and communication. His book on animal languages, Chasing Doctor Dolittle: Learning the Language of Animals (St. Martin’s Press, 2012), explores the issues of animal languages.
Chapter 16 – Animal Communication and Language
Robert Mercer is a Professor Emeritus and past Chair of Computer Science and Adjunct Research Professor at the University of Western Ontario, an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo, and a Vector Institute Faculty Affiliate. He has been recognized for his service to the Canadian Artificial Intelligence research community with a Distinguished Service Award. His research interests include computational linguistics (argumentation mining) and natural language processing (deep learning) applied to biomedical and business text.
Chapter 17 – Computational Linguistics
Daniel Schreier is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Zurich. He worked and researched at institutions such as North Carolina State University and the University of Regensburg, and was Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. His research interests include varieties of English around the world, language variation and change, contact linguistics and sociolinguistics. He has served as (Co-)Editor of English World-Wide (2013-2019) and is Co-Editor of The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes (2020).
Chapter 18 – English Varieties Outside of North America
