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Jack Grieve

@jwgrieve.bsky.social

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Professor of Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham, Studying Language Variation and Change

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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · Apr 14

Can we infer deceptive intent from fact-checker labels? And what if what fact-checkers consider “false” today turns out to be “true” tomorrow?

We explore these and other methodological questions in our new paper with Bashayer Baissa & @jwgrieve.bsky.social:

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Veracity and register in fake news analysis

This article addresses two fundamental methodological challenges in linguistic fake news research: how to reliably classify news texts as real versus fake and how to control for register variation whe...

www.degruyterbrill.com

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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · Feb 23

Very excited to announce what @DrNicciMacLeod.bsky.social and I have been working on for the past few months (with a brilliant production team behind us).

You can subscribe now and listen to our trailer wherever you get your podcasts.

#forensiclinguistics
#linguistics
#truecrime
#academicsky

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Meow Factor @meow-factor.bsky.social · Feb 5

I have made a screenshot of the image in my book (ebook format), I have also included a map of "meow"

Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · Feb 5

I assume I’ve shown you this back on Twitter at some point…

Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · Feb 4

Thanks! @danaroemling.bsky.social

Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · Jan 30

Thanks!

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Dana Roemling @danaroemling.bsky.social · Jan 30

My paper with @bodowinter.bsky.social and @jwgrieve.bsky.social was published in the Journal of Linguistic Geography today. 🎉
It’s a tutorial on how to use R & ggplot2 to visualise linguistic map data.

doi.org/10.1017/jlg....

Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology | Journal of Linguistic Geography | Cambridge Core

Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology

Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · Jan 14

Thanks, Tim!

Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · Jan 14

You could never intrude, Tony!

Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · Jan 14

But don’t get me wrong, I’m glad you picked that up, Tony. Generally I spell in BrE these days but I still like to mix it up depending on topic and audience. I feel as a Canadian it’s my prerogative.

Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · Jan 14

Thanks!

Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · Jan 14

I am very aware. It should all be in AmE

Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · Jan 13

Thanks!

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Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · Jan 13

New paper out today in Frontiers in AI!

The sociolinguistic foundations of language modelling

We argue sociolinguistics provides a foundation for understanding LLMs and addressing many challenges

www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...

doi.org/10.3389/frai...

techxplore.com/news/2025-01...

Frontiers | The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling

www.frontiersin.org

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Zeerak Talat زیرک ظلعت (they/them) @zeerak.bsky.social · Nov 27

Snark-less post: The workshop on online abuse and harms (woahworkshop.bsky.social) is now here! Follow along for online abuse related notifications and announcements!

Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (@woahworkshop.bsky.social)

Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) to be held at ACL 2025 in Vienna. This account is managed by @florplaza.bsky.social https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/

woahworkshop.bsky.social

Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · Nov 21

Maybe you’ll like this paper of ours. This is the preprint. Now in review.

arxiv.org/abs/2407.09241

The Sociolinguistic Foundations of Language Modeling

In this paper, we introduce a sociolinguistic perspective on language modeling. We claim that large language models are inherently models of varieties of language, and we consider how this insight can...

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Department of Linguistics and Communication @UoB @lcuob.bsky.social · Nov 20

Hi Bluesky: the department of Linguistics and Communication at the University of Birmingham is now on Bluesky! Who else from our department is here? @jeannettel.bsky.social @matteofuoli.bsky.social @adamcschembri.bsky.social @bodowinter.bsky.social @gregwoodin.bsky.social

Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · Nov 20

Sure!

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Robbie Love @robbielove.org · Nov 17

Call for papers:

Corpus Linguistics 2025 #CL2025
Birmingham, UK
First week of July 2025

Submissions welcome for papers, posters, thematic panels and pre-conference workshops!

www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap...

CL2025 - Call for papers

Abstract submission is now open here

www.cl2025.co.uk

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Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com · Nov 16

Did one!

Not listed and should be? Let me know 🙂

go.bsky.app/AT6KX6X

Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · Nov 13

Full house for @bodowinter.bsky.social’s department talk tonight!

Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · Oct 10

This is our answer

arxiv.org/abs/2407.09241

The Sociolinguistic Foundations of Language Modeling

In this paper, we introduce a sociolinguistic perspective on language modeling. We claim that large language models are inherently models of varieties of language, and we consider how this insight can...

Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · Oct 10

New paper on the language of fake news with Bashayer Baissa and Matteo Fuoli

doi.org/10.1177/1750...

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Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social · Oct 8

FTA: @stancarey.bsky.social uses @jwgrieve.bsky.social's map to see who swears how where across the USA stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/m...

Mapping the United Swears of America

Swearing varies a lot from place to place, even within the same country, in the same language. But how do we know who swears what, where, in the big picture? We turn to data – damn big data. With g…

stronglang.wordpress.com

Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · Oct 11

Full house for Harald Baayen at University of Birmingham!

Harald Baayen presenting

Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · Oct 5

New interview I did with Robbie Love on Computational Sociolinguistics!

youtu.be/0RV1XDGgzZQ?...

Screen cap of Robbie Love interviewing me

Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · Sep 11

First post, new paper on the way!

Draft of ‘The Sociolinguistic Foundations of Language Modelling’