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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Nation of Language:
🎵 I'm Not Ready for the Change
#NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/track/im-not-ready-for-the-change
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ORQX1wOPqCP031V1CxjUq

#Anthropic #opensources circuit tracing method to reveal how large language models make decisions internally
🔍 Generate attribution graphs showing step-by-step model reasoning processes
🧵👇#research

wow I don't even know `<data>` HTML tag exists #HTML

: The Data element - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN
The HTML element links a given piece of content with a machine-readable translation. If the content is time- or date-related, the element must be used.

Watching the first Question Period of the 45th Parliament of Canada!
#CanPoli #CdnPoli

wiki_users: Wikipedia user interaction (2011)
A network derived from interactions between editors of the English language Wikipedia, as derived from the edit histories of 563 wiki pages related to politics. A positive sign indicates positive links such as trust or similarities, and a negative sign indicates distrust or disagreement.
This network has 138592 nodes and 740397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed

Last week, we continued our #ISE2025 lecture on distributional semantics with the introduction of neural language models (NLMs) and compared them to traditional statistical n-gram models.
Benefits of NLMs:
- Capturing Long-Range Dependencies
- Computational and Statistical Tractability
- Improved Generalisation
- Higher Accuracy
@…

I have blogged about how in preparation for #Wikimania I had a nerdy, data-centric look at the Swahili language.
https://blog.johl.io/mimi-sisema-kiswahili-lakini-nin…

Bookmarked: Talking About Muslims in Middle French: The Potential of Word-to-Vector Models for Studying Semantic Relationships in Medieval Languages – DH Lab #Digital_Humanities

Talking About Muslims in Middle French: The Potential of Word-to-Vector Models for Studying Semantic Relationships in Medieval Languages
by Kimberly Lifton Medieval vernaculars are notoriously tricky for digital humanists to work with because they lack standardized spelling. Especially when using out-of-the-box libraries and software, most Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques simply do not work well for medieval languages. However, word-to-vector models have the capacity to handle noise like spelling variants when trained on … „Talking About Muslims in Middle French: The Potential of Word-to-Vector Models for Studyin…

Interesting use of NotebookLM.
I used NotebookLM to learn a new programming language, and it actually worked #ai

I used NotebookLM to learn a new programming language, and it actually worked
The only way I’m touching a new programming language again.

wow I don't even know `<data>` HTML tag exists #HTML

: The Data element - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN
The HTML element links a given piece of content with a machine-readable translation. If the content is time- or date-related, the element must be used.

"The Most Important Word in the English Language" #connect

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Nation of Language:
🎵 Inept Apollo
#NowPlaying #NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/track/inept-apollo
https://open.spotify.com/track/0YikZXNNkvNlPInLAPMV06

Is there anyone with Norwegian language setup on a desktop or mobile browser?
I need to know what your browser declares in `accept-language` header?
Is it nb-NO or no-NO? Or maybe both?
Boost for visibility please!
#webdev #programming
How to do it? Open any web…

Don't Guess My Language #i18n
https://vitonsky.net/blog/2025/05/17/language-detection/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
GAZZI:
🎵 Vacilar na' mšs
#GAZZI
https://gazzi.bandcamp.com/track/quiere-vacilar-na-m-s-ft-natural-language
https://open.spotify.com/track/6pmlwzuv8XJu3hnb4HJlSx

A curated list of awesome tools to assist 📦 development in R programming language. #rstats #📦

#Python Friday #281: Language Detection in Python - #ai #nlp

#281: Language Detection in Python - Python Friday
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🚨 #ESSLLI2025 - Last chance for early bird registration (May 31)!
👉 Logic
👉 Language
👉 Information
Really interesting courses and the Ruhr area is much more interesting than it is known for! ✨
#nlproc #logic #linguistics #summerschool
https://2025.esslli.eu/registration.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
M.A.N.D.Y. & Booka Shade:
🎵 Body Language
#MANDY #BookaShade
https://getphysicalmusic.bandcamp.com/track/m-a-n-d-y-tonite-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/5lebr2FCF41pT9IgHitkU1

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
- Arvo Pärt
Kate Molleson explores the extraordinary life and creative trajectory of Arvo Pärt in his 90th birthday year, with his son Michael. Today, Pärt invents a new musical language.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g1vz

“#SFUSD sent a sternly worded letter to the #SFParksAlliance. The language was cool and technical, but the meaning was not. It mirrored the poem that won Flyguy the Pimp of the Year contest: ‘Better have my money! Through rain, sleet or snow! Better have my money! Not half! Not some! But alllllllll my…

S.F. Parks Alliance’s downfall came gradually, then suddenly. But always predictably.
Years ago, the Parks Alliance allegedly stiffed the school district a six-figure sum. Why have consequences been so long in coming? 

"It's this brutal fragility of vector stacks — which are used by most modern computer languages — which makes software people so wary of fully exploiting the beauty and power of recursion, and I really think that's a shame"
#Lisp

#linguistics
I vaguely recall from long ago studies the concept of #Register in describing and analyzing language usage, and how a given language has many registers, the use of which is prescribed by context.
There is, I think, a register that is used exclusively when narrating a History Ch…

wiki_article_words: Wikipedia article-words (en) (2010)
A bipartite network of English Wikipedia articles and the words they contain. The edge weight gives the number of times a word appeared in the connected article.
This network has 276739 nodes and 2941902 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted
https://

Let's say you find a really cool forum online that has lots of good advice on it. It's even got a very active community that's happy to answer questions very quickly, and the community seems to have a wealth of knowledge about all sorts of subjects.
You end up visiting this community often, and trusting the advice you get to answer all sorts of everyday questions you might have, which before you might have found answers to using a web search (of course web search is now full of SEI spam and other crap so it's become nearly useless).
Then one day, you ask an innocuous question about medicine, and from this community you get the full homeopathy treatment as your answer. Like, somewhat believable on the face of it, includes lots of citations to reasonable-seeming articles, except that if you know even a tiny bit about chemistry and biology (which thankfully you do), you know that the homoeopathy answers are completely bogus and horribly dangerous (since they offer non-treatments for real diseases). Your opinion of this entire forum suddenly changes. "Oh my God, if they've been homeopathy believers all this time, what other myths have they fed me as facts?"
You stop using the forum for anything, and go back to slogging through SEI crap to answer your everyday questions, because one you realize that this forum is a community that's fundamentally untrustworthy, you realize that the value of getting advice from it on any subject is negative: you knew enough to spot the dangerous homeopathy answer, but you know there might be other such myths that you don't know enough to avoid, and any community willing to go all-in on one myth has shown itself to be capable of going all in on any number of other myths.
...
This has been a parable about large language models.
#AI #LLM

#ReleaseWednesday — Extracted & extended the LISP-like DSL from an existing #ThingUmbrella example[1] as new small package for better/direct re-use in other projects:

Lightweight, extensible, interpreted Lisp-style DSL for embedding in other projects

Learning a foreign language in older adults shapes the functional connectivity of distinct cerebellar sub-regions with cortical areas rich in CB1 receptor expression https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/brb3.70565

Why is my blog called 'Edintone' and why do I use that as my handle too? The mystery is over ... #DomesdayBook

Why Edintone?
One branch of my family, Vorley, originates from Great Addington in Northamptonshire and were known to be living there in the 17th century.

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Nation of Language:
🎵 I'm Not Ready for the Change
#NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/track/im-not-ready-for-the-change
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ORQX1wOPqCP031V1CxjUq

Language learning has been part of me since high school. I'm solid in 2 non-English languages, crappy but survivable in 2 others. I've played with & started learning others many times.
I'm real busy rn, but language learning could be a fun thing to do for myself & make me feel like I'm still me.
But I'm stumped about my language picks. I learnt the obvious European languages in school; later tried key Asian languages. What do I want to do now?
African languages? I won't be getting a chance to use them much in Aus, & I'm unlikely to get to a stage where I can read literature.
I tried Slovenian/Slovene on a whim & really love it, but I'll never go there. Is the practical but unfun answer grind out more kanji/hanzi? Or is whimsically learning a language spoken by only 2.5 million people reasonable? I will continue struggling through with Ukrainian, 'cause I think it's important.
#LanguageLearning

First Evidence of Potential Language-Like Communication in Dolphins: Study #AnimalRights

First Evidence of Potential Language-Like Communication in Dolphins: Study
Scientists with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and partners have identified possible language-like communication among dolphins.

The language of my people (well-meaning white guys) is cringe.
In case anyone was wondering: “Are You A Person of Color ?” is not a question that should ever be asked in any context, even if you are asking because you are mostly white folks truly seeking to understand the diversity of your group. I’m pretty much there with sex/gender questions as well.
#SubberThanSubToot

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

This just occured to me (too much sun and gin lemonade could be a factor): English is a funny language and when they say Artificial they mean Automated, and when they say Intelligence they don't mean smarts, they mean covertly gathering intel from prospective enemies!
Hence #ArtificialIntelligence, often promoted to General.
The purpose of any system is what it does, not what it consistently fails to do.

AI is now routine in IT, but this shows the risk of treating AI as "knowledgeable". Its design relies on vast quantities of mostly unvetted data. They are plausibility engines shaped by biases and delusions in the culture that trained them.
#llm #AI

ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds
A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

#ESSLLI2025 ! #rub #logic #language

1/ It's really hard to miss a particular demographic in Italy. Almost every cycle-based food delivery driver, outdoor market fruit/veg/cheap trinket seller, etc., is clearly from South Asia, down to the language and music. It's really stark. #Italy25 ↵

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Nation of Language:
🎵 Inept Apollo
#NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/track/inept-apollo
https://open.spotify.com/track/0YikZXNNkvNlPInLAPMV06

In the #ISE2025 lecture today we were introducing our students to the concept of distributional semantics as the foundation of modern large language models. Historically, Wittgenstein was one of the important figures in the Philosophy of Language stating thet "The meaning of a word is its use in the language."

tl,dr: imho beginners should start with with either Go or Lua
Friends hit me with the age old question for their child which wants to learn programming: which language should one start with?
This had me thinking quite a bit. First thing that came to my mind was #Kotlin, my favourite, but I wouldn't recommend it for beginners, because it is quite heavy in high level concepts. …

@… @… the "de" is for the language "Deutsch", though 🙂 Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg ... and everyone else is welcome under

Does anyone have access to this article?
Bromham et al. (2025): Macroevolutionary analysis of polysynthesis shows that language complexity is more likely to evolve in small, isolated populations.
#papersplease #paper #Linguistics

😶‍🌫️ When politicians gain power, their language becomes garbled
#politics…

When politicians gain power, their language becomes garbled
It's well known that governing parties often lose voters over time—the so-called cost of governing. But a new study from Frederik Hjorth, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, documents a lesser-known but potentially crucial side effect of being in government: politicians begin to speak less simply and understandably.

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

Went to see a Hoopla improv show at The Bell, a mix of half a dozen different groups doing different thin
gs. "Shuffle improv" were basing their scenes on a shuffled playlist built by the audience on the way in
and an interesting format from a improv-as-a-second-language group chatting about their experiences in a
foreign land and basing their scenes off it. The group called "twelve people" only had six but were good
chaotic fun.
Lots of stuff about cooking and food.
I found myself pondering optimum size for an improve group. In general the larger groups seemed more fun to me, with the exception of three-person "burn the script" who did excellent work. More than eight wouldn't fit in the tiny stage at that venue. In rehearsal I like to have the group split in half and perform for each other. Hard to do that with fewer than six. Still up in the air if our group will get off the ground or not. More people does mean more calendar clashes even if it makes for a cheaper-per-person room hire.
Everyone has instagram pages, which are no use to me. Won't link or visit there. Interesting that nobody has a Twitter profile any more and of course nobody seems to have just a damned website which still strikes me as madness. Imagine not wanting to own your own space on the web?
#improv #london

Our Father in Heaven - Pray As You Go
#dw4jc

Our Father in heaven - Pray As You Go
Today is Thursday the 19th of June, in the 11th week of Ordinary Time.    Juliano Ravanello sings ‘Pater Noster’, the Our Father. As you listen to this twice through, you might like to pray the Lord’s Prayer in your own language.     Pater ...

It used to be that the use of #genAI for #PeerReview was forbidden (at least for anything else other than helping with the language).
I've just checked the policy on this from #Nature and it's…

TIL that go language server gopls can generate the boilerplate for a unit test of a function.
#go #golang #gopls

Home again, after a week and some. Today I made biscuits! Egg and bacon, tea and coffee. Work, transit board meeting, and play at our local Spanish-language theater tonight: “La Dama Boba” #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/7S7RtWAatP5Ps1ZN8

Siri Kurzbefehle: Neuer Shortcut macht Apple Intelligence zum Chatbot #Siri #Shortcut #AI

Siri Kurzbefehle: Neuer Shortcut macht Apple Intelligence zum Chatbot - Apfelpage
Auf der WWDC hat Apple neue Funktionen für Siri Kurzbefehle vorgestellt. Die im englischen „Shortcuts“ genannte App kann nun direkt auf das Large Language Model ... Weiterlesen ...

A post from the archive 📫:
Making production diagnostics easier with Source Link
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/making-production-diagnostics-easier-with-source-link

Horrifying how #ALEC's lies are hurting so many people in many ways.
#NaturalGas is dirty, dangerous and damaging.
Dirty: toxic air around gas wells, toxic fumes from burning it
Dangerous: gas explosions, frequently associated with injuries and deaths, as well as destruction of propert…

Louisiana is the latest state to greenwash gas
A new state law that redefines natural gas as a “green” energy source was adapted from language written by a right-wing think tank.

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

Guardians Of Language And Country
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Finally you have the chance to work with me. 🥳
Join Olivers Team in #hamburg as a Software Developer for #DSpace rsp. #DSpaceCRIS
German language skills are helpful

Für die breite Verwendung von #KI, speziell im Kontext #Schule, muss sichergestellt sein, dass #LLMs user:innen nicht zu selbstgefährdendem Verhalten animieren.
Das Nonprofit Transluce arbeitet an verschie…

Surfacing Pathological Behaviors in Language Models
We train reinforcement learning (RL) agents to craft realistic natural-language prompts that elicit specified behaviors in frontier open-weight models (Llama 3.1/4, Qwen 2.5, and DeepSeek-V3), using a proposed variational lower bound to guide the search.

From Translink
Frontline transit workers wearing language pins to better support newcomers and tourists
New initiative makes it easier for customers to communicate with staff
More than 150 frontline transit workers across the TransLink system are now wearing pins that say “hello” in various languages – to let customers know which languages they speak in addition to English.
#Vancouver

Why does the #BBC use terms like “Iran-backed Houthis” or “Hamas-run hospital,” but avoid labels such as “US-backed IDF” or referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an “indicted war criminal.”?
'Why 'Hamas-run hospital' but never ‘US-backed IDF’?': Zohran Mamdani calls out double standards on Israel-Gaza coverage; slams BBC - Times of India

'Why 'Hamas-run hospital' but never ‘US-backed IDF’?': Zohran Mamdani calls out double standards on Israel-Gaza coverage; slams BBC - Times of India
US News: Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has accused the BBC of biased reporting on the Israel-Gaza conflict, criticizing their selective language.

r-charts.com provides example code for a variety of chart types, both in base R and ggplot: #rstats #ggplot…

R CHARTS | A collection of charts and graphs made with the R programming language
Over 1400 graphs with reproducible code divided in 8 big categories and over 50 chart types, in addition of tools to choose and create colors and color palettes

There is a lot of conflict between developers who say #LLM tools are making them more productive, and developers who want to quit and move to a cabin in the woods.
Recently I discovered a possible reason why. #AI is just a bad fit for conventional, reality-based models of value creation like

The future of AI-driven development isn’t Agile. It’s XGH.
A lot of ink has been spilled over Large Language Models and their associated products being inserted into just about everything, often against the will of the product’s users. One of the areas where…

I'm a #language fiend too. Lasswell taps into a big sore point for me as well. If you read this, stay away from the comment section. You'll go nuts!
Opinion | The phrase ‘begs the question’ is begging for oblivion - The Washington Post

This common phrase is widely misused. Is it worth salvaging?
When a phrase has been misused into uselessness, maybe avoiding it is the best policy.

"“Look, I’m not trying to get the world’s tiniest violin out to say, ‘poor MPs’,” [Chris Hinchliff MP] said. “But I will say there seems to be a certain set of people who behave in here more like a private schoolboy drinking club than serious professional people thinking about how to improve the country.”
Yes, this is the #Labour party he's talking about. Meet the new government, jus…

SWELL (old-timey use) Vs SWILL. What a difference a letter makes.
#English #language #difference

"AI Can Help Limit the Spread of Misinformation During Natural Disaster, Study Finds"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

AI Can Help Limit the Spread of Misinformation During Natural Disaster, Study Finds - Inside Climate News
Through so-called natural language processing, AI can identify misinformation, track its spread and monitor the digital information landscape in real time. But it has its limits.

on my way to the optional friday meeting of early arrivers to RetroNetConf, our small German-language meeting of various #retronetworking enthusiasts https://osmocom.org/projects/retronetw…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Nation of Language:
🎵 I'm Not Ready for the Change
#NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/track/im-not-ready-for-the-change
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ORQX1wOPqCP031V1CxjUq

Saw this on my kitchen counter today and thought „hmm, ‚Solid Porcelain‘ might be a cool design language, actually.“
Can do the same 3d effects, nice highlights / reflections, and easier to read on than the transparency of #LiquidGlass. Plus, stuff sticking out of the icon is always fun. #iOS

In today's ISE 2025 lecture,, we will introduce SPARQL as a query language for knowledge graphs. Again, I'm trying out 'Dystopian Novels' as example knowledge graph playground. Let's see, if the students might know any of them. Wtat do you think? ;-)
#dystopia #literature

All about the new pipe operator in PHP 8.5:
#PHP

PHP 8.5 Adds Pipe Operator: What it means
The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

I am slowly but surely enjoying Reiner Keller's "Sociology of knowledge approach to discourse". I highly appreciate the level of care towards what is identified/extracted and taken for real. However, as with any other sociological framework, the position of the analyst remains problematic.
Even if one masters the analytical practice, communicating it remains problematic, as language must be used to do so. Traditionally, sociologists attempt to find a new form of language, which often becomes increasingly abstract and incomprehensible.
I wonder what the alternative would be: expressing analytical insights in every possible language or discursive logic (which is practically impossible), or at least in those connected to the analysis. Language translation or 'elif' could be examples of this. However, I also consider 'speaking in your terms' when communicating with individuals from different backgrounds.
#ADSK #Sociology #DiscourseAnalysis

When a company doesn't adhere to RFCs 2142 or 9116, but you still tryna reach out.
A tale in two acts.
#BugBounty #BountyBegging #RFC2142

Our English-language MA program in #ReligiousStudies attracts students from all over the world. Sometimes it can be a challenge to handle the diversity of undergrad training and disciplinary knowledge that our students bring with them. But this semester’s “ethics and politics of religious heritage” class was a delight. After a brief introduction, I let my students bring their topics, texts,…

livemocha: Livemocha friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users on Livemocha, a large online language learning community. Nodes represent users and edges represent a mutual declaration of friendship.
This network has 104103 nodes and 2193083 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://ne…

Getting ready for #ESSLLI2025 ! #rub #logic #language #information

In our #ISE2025 lecture last Wednesday, we learned how in n-gram language models via Markov assumption and maximum likelihood estimation we can predict the probability of the occurrence of a word given a specific context (i.e. n words previous in the sequence of words).
#NLP

Generating Shakespeare-like text with an n-gram language model is straight forward and quite simple. But, don't expect to much of it. It will not be able to recreate a lost Shakespear play for you ;-) It's merely a parrot, making up well sounding sentences out of fragments of original Shakespeare texts...
#ise2025

I'm a #language fiend too. Lasswell taps into a big sore point for me as well. If you read this, stay away from the comment section. You'll go nuts!
Opinion | The phrase ‘begs the question’ is begging for oblivion - The Washington Post

This common phrase is widely misused. Is it worth salvaging?
When a phrase has been misused into uselessness, maybe avoiding it is the best policy.

A post from the archive 📫:
Making production diagnostics easier with Source Link
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/making-production-diagnostics-easier-with-source-link

A new day a new AI benchmark.
#ai #benchmarks

OpenAI's o3 tops new AI league table for answering scientific questions
SciArena uses votes by researchers to evaluate large language models’ responses on technical topics.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Nation Of Language:
🎵 Stumbling Still (Edit)
#NowPlaying #NationOfLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/track/stumbling-still
https://open.spotify.com/track/2kGKxXOSLegpsXQOAhMqCH

wordnet: WordNet relationships
A network of English words from the WordNet. Node is a word, and edge denotes relationships between words (synonymy, hyperonymy, meronymy, etc.). The date at which this network was extracted from WordNet is not unknown.
This network has 146005 nodes and 656999 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
htt…

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

This week, we were discussing the central question Can we "predict" a word? as the basis for statistical language models in our #ISE2025 lecture. Of course, I wasx trying Shakespeare quotes to motivate the (international) students to complement the quotes with "predicted" missing words ;-)
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely...."

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Nation of Language:
🎵 Inept Apollo
#NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/track/inept-apollo
https://open.spotify.com/track/0YikZXNNkvNlPInLAPMV06

word_assoc: Edinburgh word associations
A network of word associations showing the count of such associations as collected from subjects, from the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT). Each node represents a word, and a directed edge (i, j) denotes that word i was used as a stimulus to which word j was given as a response. Multiple edges are allowed.
This network has 23132 nodes and 312342 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph

pokec: Pokec online social network (2012)
The online social network of Pokec, a popular OSN in Slovakia, from 2012. Date covers about 10 years and more than 1.6 million people. Profile data contains gender, age, hobbies, interest, education etc. Profile metadata are in Slovak language. Friendships in Pokec are oriented.
This network has 1632804 nodes and 30622564 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Metadata

Next stop on our NLP timeline (as part of the #ISE2025 lecture) was Terry Winograd's SHRDLU, an early natural language understanding system developed in 1968-70 that could manipulate blocks in a virtual world.
Winograd, T. Procedures as a Representation for Data in a Computer Program for Understanding Natural Language. MIT AI Technical Report 235.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Nation of Language:
🎵 I'm Not Ready for the Change
#NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/track/im-not-ready-for-the-change
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ORQX1wOPqCP031V1CxjUq

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Nation of Language:
🎵 I'm Not Ready for the Change
#NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/track/im-not-ready-for-the-change
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ORQX1wOPqCP031V1CxjUq

Building on the 90s, statistical n-gram language models, trained on vast text collections, became the backbone of NLP research. They fueled advancements in nearly all NLP techniques of the era, laying the groundwork for today's AI.
F. Jelinek (1997), Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
#NLP

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted

reuters: Reuters news stories (1987, 2000)
A bipartite network of Reuters news stories and words. Edges connect each story to all the words it contains.
This network has 1065176 nodes and 60569726 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/reuters…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Cryogeyser:
🎵 Love Language
#Cryogeyser
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wordnet: WordNet relationships
A network of English words from the WordNet. Node is a word, and edge denotes relationships between words (synonymy, hyperonymy, meronymy, etc.). The date at which this network was extracted from WordNet is not unknown.
This network has 146005 nodes and 656999 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
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bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted

wordnet: WordNet relationships
A network of English words from the WordNet. Node is a word, and edge denotes relationships between words (synonymy, hyperonymy, meronymy, etc.). The date at which this network was extracted from WordNet is not unknown.
This network has 146005 nodes and 656999 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
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bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted