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#linguistics @… Where do I find one of those graphs that shows speakers' turns in dialog, i.e. when who is speaking, including overlaps / pauses? Like the attached but better quality? Trying to make a small point

A very #Helsinki experience.
A friend invited a bunch people to join his dorm's shared sauna, some more joined by chance. One was a visiting PhD student who speaks 14 languages. The shower turned into a comparative #linguistics seminar, in Italian. I got to learn something about the syntax of Balka…

Nice piece, it's a difficult balance for scientists we are supposed to write impersonally, but does language we employ blunt message?
https://spore.social/@rewildingmag/112007046787772384
@…

Maite Taboada is giving the first keynote at #DGfS2024
She’s starting by giving an introduction to sentiment analysis #nlproc #linguistics

Lingthusiasm - A Podcast That's Enthusiastic About Linguistics
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/lingthusiasm-a-podcast-thats-enthusiastic-about-linguistics/

Lingthusiasm | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Lingthusiasm – A Podcast That’s Enthusiastic About Linguistics Hosts: Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne Category: Science Sub-Category: Language Learning & Diversity…

How do I change the font in #linguex glossed examples? 🤔 #TeXLaTeX #linguistics

Authoritarians and language.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat's talk on what happens to language under authoritarian regimes is brilliant and very timely. She describes processes that we here in the US can witness every day. This is not a long read and I recommend it.
#authoritarianism #fascism #language #linguistics

Lower Bounds for the Minimum Spanning Tree Cycle Intersection Problem
Manuel Dubinsky, Kun-Mao Chao, C\'esar Massri, Gabriel Taubin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17428

Lower Bounds for the Minimum Spanning Tree Cycle Intersection Problem
Minimum spanning trees are important tools in the analysis and design of networks. Many practical applications require their computation, ranging from biology and linguistics to economy and telecommunications. The set of cycles of a network has a vector space structure. Given a spanning tree, the set of non-tree edges defines cycles that determine a basis. The intersection of two such cycles is the number of edges they have in common and the intersection number -- denoted $\cap(G)$ -- is the nu…

Made a video about schwas.
#schwa #xkcd #phonetics #linguistics #accents
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeaDd3h1/

Talk about authorship analysis in the diversity in linguistics series right now! https://div-ling.org/en/events/talk-series-diversity-in-linguistics/

Has the Whorfian hypotheses been applied to #LLM
#aiconfab
#Linguistics

Man trapped in a room, frantically banging on the door: Can anyone hear me?
English major, passing by: Do you mean *Does* anyone hear me?
🥁
#English #language #linguistics

🚨 New preprint 🚨
"Does corpus size influence normalised frequencies?"
#corpus linguistic measures are influenced by corpus size. So we asked ourselves: Does this also hold for normalised #frequencies, a measure that is meant to correct raw frequencies for the size of the underlying corpus?
We approached this by checking the association between lists of normalised frequencies for samples of different sizes.
#linguistics

If you had an interesting empirical result (based on a student's BSc thesis), which you've presented in a talk but failed to get the paper into any real proceedings or journal at the time - what would you do with it? Which preprint server would be good for putting the draft paper and maybe the slides? #linguistics
Let's assume it's now too late and not going to be made a "real" paper, but it should be citable.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04639 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

MaCmS: Magahi Code-mixed Dataset for Sentiment Analysis
The present paper introduces new sentiment data, MaCMS, for Magahi-Hindi-English (MHE) code-mixed language, where Magahi is a less-resourced minority language. This dataset is the first Magahi-Hindi-English code-mixed dataset for sentiment analysis tasks. Further, we also provide a linguistics analysis of the dataset to understand the structure of code-mixing and a statistical study to understand the language preferences of speakers with different polarities. With these analyses, we also train …

#Philosophy #Wittgenstein #linguistics

New paper: Semantic differences in visually similar face emojis 📝
We show that even #emojis that look similar (like 😊, ☺️) have subtle, reliable meaning differences, supporting a lexicalist approach. #linguistics

Man trapped in a room, frantically banging on the door: Can anyone hear me?
English major, passing by: Do you mean *Does* anyone hear me?
🥁
#English #language #linguistics

Very excited to see that #Bari is hosting Lectures on Computational Linguistics 2024. Extremely interesting guests and topics. #AILC

spoiler/teaser for #AfterTwitter: ratio of linguistic research using Twitter vs not is over 7:1
(Obviously this is not serious research^TM but you get the idea) #linguistics

Glad to see that our #NLP4DH paper “The Great Digital Humanities Disconnect: The Failure of DH Publishing” (with Emily Öhman and Mika Hämäläinen) is now available in the ACL Anthology: https://aclanthology.org/2023.nlp4dh-1

🚨 New preprint 🚨
"Does corpus size influence normalised frequencies?"
#corpus linguistic measures are influenced by corpus size. So we asked ourselves: Does this also hold for normalised #frequencies, a measure that is meant to correct raw frequencies for the size of the underlying corpus?
We approached this by checking the association between lists of normalised frequencies for samples of different sizes.
#linguistics

The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.
The fact that those distantly related Indo-European languages had almost the same pronunciation of a single word meant that the word—and the concept behind it—had most likely existed in the Proto-Indo-European language.
“If they had a word for it, they must have lived in a place where there was salmon,” explains Guy. “Salmon is a fish that lives i…

#Philosophy #Wittgenstein #linguistics

"Besides misattributing fake quotes to @…, the #AIgenerated article calls her a "leading AI ethics researcher" when she is a professor in the Dep. of Linguistics at the Univ. Washington.
Dr Bender doesn't have anything to do wi…

Very excited to see that #Bari is hosting Lectures on Computational Linguistics 2024. Extremely interesting guests and topics. https://www.ai-lc.it/en/lectures-2/lectures-2024/

A Study on Actions for Atomic Logics
Ra\"ul Espejo-Boix
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07948 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.07948…

A Study on Actions for Atomic Logics
Nowadays there is a large number of non-classical logics, each one best suited for reasoning about some issues in abstract fields, such as linguistics or epistemology, among others. Proving interesting properties for each one of them supposes a big workload for logicians and computer scientists. We want an approach into this problematic that is modular. To adress this issue, the report shows new insights in the construction of Atomic Logics introduced by Guillaume Aucher. Atomic Logics let us r…

\o/ #DGfS2024
Follow the signs… #rub #bochum #linguistics

🔥 Tip: If you cite me in your papers on #emojis, I'll be reminded to add your work to our Zotero "Linguistics of Emojis" database 🤭 #linguistics
https://www.zotero.org/groups/2613859/linguistics_of_emojis/library

The call for applications for EMLex Erasmus Mundus (European Master in Lexicography) scholarships is open till 01 March 2024.
#linguistics

Putting Language into Context Using Smartphone-Based Keyboard Logging
Florian Bemmann, Timo Koch, Maximilian Bergmann, Clemens Stachl, Daniel Buschek, Ramona Schoedel, Sven Mayer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05180

Putting Language into Context Using Smartphone-Based Keyboard Logging
While the study of language as typed on smartphones offers valuable insights, existing data collection methods often fall short in providing contextual information and ensuring user privacy. We present a privacy-respectful approach - context-enriched keyboard logging - that allows for the extraction of contextual information on the user's input motive, which is meaningful for linguistics, psychology, and behavioral sciences. In particular, with our approach, we enable distinguishing language co…

🔥 Tip: If you cite me in your papers on #emojis, I'll be reminded to add your work to our Zotero "Linguistics of Emojis" database 🤭 #linguistics
https://www.zotero.org/groups/2613859/linguistics_of_emojis/library

The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.
The fact that those distantly related Indo-European languages had almost the same pronunciation of a single word meant that the word—and the concept behind it—had most likely existed in the Proto-Indo-European language.
“If they had a word for it, they must have lived in a place where there was salmon,” explains Guy. “Salmon is a fish that lives i…

😄 😁 paper accepted! 💪 #linguistics #emojis

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio1's #Radio1sDrumAndBassMix
Jolliffe & Linguistics:
🎵 Howl
#BBCR1 #Jolliffe #Linguistics
https://open.spotify.com/track/7kyQjQUvLMxc2T57H8nInR
https://jolliffe.bandcamp.com/track/howl-ft-linguistics

Impoverished Language Technology: The Lack of (Social) Class in NLP
Amanda Cercas Curry, Zeerak Talat, Dirk Hovy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03874 https://<…

Impoverished Language Technology: The Lack of (Social) Class in NLP
Since Labov's (1964) foundational work on the social stratification of language, linguistics has dedicated concerted efforts towards understanding the relationships between socio-demographic factors and language production and perception. Despite the large body of evidence identifying significant relationships between socio-demographic factors and language production, relatively few of these factors have been investigated in the context of NLP technology. While age and gender are well covered, …

There’s an #emoji for 🌹🌹
And one for 💜 too
Wanna know how they’re used?
Boy do I have a study for you!
#AcademicValentine #linguistics

HINTs: Sensemaking on large collections of documents with Hypergraph visualization and INTelligent agents
Sam Yu-Te Lee, Kwan-Liu Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02752

HINTs: Sensemaking on large collections of documents with Hypergraph visualization and INTelligent agents
Sensemaking on a large collection of documents (corpus) is a challenging task often found in fields such as market research, legal studies, intelligence analysis, political science, computational linguistics, etc. Previous works approach this problem either from a topic- or entity-based perspective, but they lack interpretability and trust due to poor model alignment. In this paper, we present HINTs, a visual analytics approach that combines topic- and entity-based techniques seamlessly and int…

Looking forward to #DGfS this week in #Bochum #RUB ! 🤩
#linguistics