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Brandon Waldon @bwal.bsky.social · Jul 14

Currently accepting applications on a rolling basis! Postdoc in Empirical Approaches to Legal Interpretation, with a start date of Fall 2025. A great opportunity to work with the wonderful @complingy.bsky.social @kevintobia.bsky.social

Details here: apply.interfolio.com/170055

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · Jun 14

Saturday morning, feeling too lazy to produce even a schwa

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · Jun 14

'nɑnbənt̩

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · Jun 14

rabbinate
nonbinate?

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · Jun 9

Can't access today. :(

Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · May 31

Me: English doesn't have resumptive pronouns.

Also me: It says to cool on wire racks, which I don't know where they are.

#syntax #RelativeClauses

Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · Mar 26

7 Supreme Court justices: linguists may actually know something about how to interpret language?

Justice Thomas: now that's crazy talk.

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · Mar 11

Our survey highlights the enduring influence of linguistics on #NLProc. We emphasize 6 facets: Resources, Evaluation, Low-resource settings, Interpretability, Explanation, and the Study of language.

Juri Opitz @nlopitz.bsky.social · Mar 11

Happy to share that our paper, "Natural Language Processing RELIES on Linguistics," will appear in Computational Linguistics!

Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2405.05966

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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · Mar 7

So thrilled for @grammartable.bsky.social !

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/n...

Grammar Fans Flock to a Film About Participles and Gerunds (Gift Article)

“Rebel With a Clause” celebrates the improbable cross-country journey of a woman who gently imparts grammar rules to strangers.

www.nytimes.com

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Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox @wegotlieb.bsky.social · Feb 19

📣 New Paper ⚖️🧑‍⚖️🏛️ Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don't Take Their Word for It 👩‍⚖️🏛️⚖️ with @bwal.bsky.social , @complingy.bsky.social Amir Zeldes, and @kevintobia.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don't Take Their Word for It

<p><span>Recent breakthroughs in statistical language modeling have impacted countless domains, including the law. Chatbot applications such as ChatGPT, Claude,

papers.ssrn.com

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · Jan 13

Reminds me of "at cost"

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · Jan 8

Well my understanding is that indexing matters for evaluating research in many institutions in Europe and Asia. There may be problems with the metrics, but one has to consider whether foregoing indexing will put researchers at a disadvantage relative to researchers in other fields.

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · Jan 8

At least, the ones that have to advertise this because nobody has heard of them are probably shady!

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · Dec 26

Four (4!) postdocs, neurosci of language, Georgetown University NeurosciLang Training Program docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · Dec 26

Dave Barry, formal semanticist

#linguistics

"...My wife knows approximately 1,700 attractive, smart, funny, middle-aged single women who would love to be in a committed relationship with a man. (I don't mean with the *same* man.) (Although at this point they might not rule it out.)"

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · Dec 24

A lovely obituary for Bill Labov in the Inquirer.

William Labov, ‘father of sociolinguistics’ who studied the Philadelphia accent, dies at 97

William Labov's work changed whose dialects linguists saw worthy of study and dove into the socioeconomic politics of language. He is considered the father of sociolinguistics.

www.inquirer.com

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · Dec 17

Garden path of the day: "Merchan wrote the Supreme Court’s ruling that Trump should receive broad immunity for official acts during his time in office did not mean the conviction should be dismissed...."

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · Dec 16

Definitely use software that sends a reminder to subscribers on the first of every month, those are super helpful.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Dec 16

Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · Dec 14

CC: @grammartable.bsky.social

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · Dec 13

[POLL] What do you think about the grammaticality of the following sentence?:

"I’m not getting as good of service out here as I thought I would."

(absent a poll feature, reply with 👍 or 👎, and feel free to explain yourself)

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · Dec 10

Recently discovered this for taking out the trash!

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · Dec 8

How was this not a part of my postdoc?!

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · Dec 8

Of course, when evaluating a paper about a resource, there are many things to look for beyond trivial novelty (is the resource new). COLING 2018 had a separate set of questions for resource papers: coling2018.org/paper-types/

Paper types | COLING 2018

coling2018.org

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · Dec 8

Practical technology is one possible motivation (whether a new specialized system or evaluation of a more general system). I also tend to think that creation of novel resources—especially if there is a systematic annotation effort—reveals something about how that language works.

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