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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 29d

You can find all materials for the course at github.com/reading-conc... – share and enjoy!

teaching/tutorials/konvens2025 at main · reading-concordances/teaching

Teaching materials created by the RC21 project. Contribute to reading-concordances/teaching development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · Sep 8

If you're attending Konvens 2025 at Hildesheim, don't miss our tutorial on Reading Concordances with Algorithms tomorrow, where we talk about our mathematical framework and given some background on the FlexiConc library. konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/program/#fle... @rc21project.bsky.social

Program

Conference on Natural Language Processing

konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de

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Elif Oezmen @elifoezmen.bsky.social · Aug 22

Eine Wut-Rede von Prof. Andreas Wirsching im aktuellen Heft von Forschung & Lehre - sehr lesenswert (aber auch zum verzweifeln)

„Die „Befreiung" von universitären Verpflichtungen in Lehre und Verwaltung dient dem Einkauf von Zeit für die „eigentliche" Arbeit der Professorinnen und Professoren“
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Aufsatz von Wirsching: Hyperkomplexe Paradoxie, leider zu lang für ALT und auch nicht online verfügbar

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · Aug 22

AI are breaking the internet desparately crawling data. Excellent quote on deeper reasons: “People are using these tools to replace knowledge and gaining skills. There's no reason to assume that this attack against our cultural sense of thrift will not continue.“ www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/a...

Fastly warns AI bots can hit sites 39K times per minute

Updated: One fetcher bot seen smacking a website with 39,000 requests per minute

www.theregister.com

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · Aug 22

Naja, die durchschnittliche Länge eines Treckers in Deutschland liegt ja inzwischen bei gefühlt 50 Metern – da braucht man schon ein schnelles Auto, um vorbeizukommen.

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Alexander Kruska @akruska.bsky.social · Aug 21

Wahrscheinlich ist KI deshalb ein Problemverstärker, weil es den länger schon schwelenden, dunklen Fortschrittsmythos zu untermauern scheint, dass individuelle Bildungsarbeit (an sich selbst) endlich obsolet werden könnte: "Ich hab das Wissen der ganzen Welt in der Tasche" 📱

Claas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · Aug 21

Ein Mann will seinen Kochsalzkonsum reduzieren und fragt die KI nach Alternativen. Die empfiehlt ihm das giftige Bromidsalz, woraufhin er sich prompt übelst vergiftet. Das sind noch Einzelfälle, aber wenn KI-Anwendungen nicht endlich und rasch regelementiert werden, wird es böse enden.

Gesundheitsrisiko Chat-GPT: Bromvergiftung in den USA

Ein 60-jähriger Mann hat nach einem Ratschlag von Chat-GPT eine Bromidvergiftung erlitten. Warum Gesundheitstipps der KI riskant sein können.

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · Aug 6

Wusstest Du, dass das Innenministerium ein Sonderregister für trans, inter und nicht-binäre Menschen plant? Wir sagen: Nie wieder! Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ und teilen! weact.campact.de/petitions/ke...

Kein Sonderregister für trans* Personen – Nie wieder Listen gegen Minderheiten!

Hallo, ich bin Penelope Alva Frank, Transfrau, queerfeministische Aktivistin und Gründerin der queerfeministischen Bewegung Queermany. Ich weiß, wie es ist, jeden Tag Blicke, Sprüche und Angriffe ausz...

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · Aug 6

Why does opening openai.com/open-models/ in Firefox use 350% CPU and massive GPU resources? I just wanted to read the page, not run GPT in my browser …

Open models by OpenAI

Advanced open-weight reasoning models to customize for any use case and run anywhere.

openai.com

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · Aug 6

On day 3 of our Reading Concordances course at #ESSLLI2025, @michamahlberg.bsky.social is ready to go hands-on with FlexiConc in CLiC. Teaching materials available soon at github.com/reading-conc... CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · Aug 5

Day#2 at #esslli2025 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de More of our #ReadingConcordances training course: here @schtepf.bsky.social introducing #CQPweb

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 18

I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent.

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · Jul 11

Probably not a good strategy to post this late at night, but I'm very happy that updated slides and complete R notebooks for my ICAME46 and CL2025 talks on Bootstrapping Keywords and Collocations are finally available on OSF. Share and enjoy! osf.io/x82cz/ @cl2025.co.uk #ICAME46

Bootstrapping keywords and collocations

Code, data, and slides from conference presentations on bootstrapping keywords and collocations in R Hosted on the Open Science Framework

osf.io

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · Jul 10

My thoughts on the Corpus Queries of the Future from the #CL2040 workshop @idsmannheim.bsky.social are available on OSF: osf.io/ywkqc/ (as part of the Ziggurat project). Looking forward to your feedback! Also: help us build the CQLF Ontology of corpus query languages at github.com/cqlf-ontology/!

Future of Corpus Queries

Hosted on the Open Science Framework

osf.io

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juliakrasselt.bsky.social @juliakrasselt.bsky.social · Jul 10

Looking forward to discussing the future of corpus linguistics today! #futurecorp2040

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · Jul 9

It‘s so hard to believe that Trump supporters are willing to sacrifice almost anything – democracy, freedom, health insurance, the US economy – just so they can hurt a handful of transgender people. What sad and rotten souls they have!

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MBlue.Bsky.social 🌺MB🌺 @mblue.bsky.social · Jul 9

The hateful felon strikes again!

#WeSupportAllPpl
#NeverMyPresident
#CaliforniaStrong

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Trump administration sues California over transgender athletes, putting billions of dollars at stake

The Trump administration sues California, threatening billions of dollars in education funding, over a policy allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls' and women's sports.

www.latimes.com

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · Jul 9

Arrived at Mannheim for the FutureCorp 2040 workshop looking at the next 15 years of corpus linguistics research. Busy night ahead of me, so I can talk about The Future of Corpus Queries and Digital Hermeneutics tomorrow! #cl2040 #rc21project #cwb www.ids-mannheim.de/digspra/pb-s...

Programme | IDS

www.ids-mannheim.de

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Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21) @rc21project.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thursday, July 10
💡 “Digital hermeneutics: Reading concordances with algorithms” presented by
@schtepf.bsky.social and @nfdykes.bsky.social

Friday, July 11:
🔑 Keynote by
@michamahlberg.bsky.social
„Corpus linguistics and storytelling: Data and connections“

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Ute Römer-Barron @ute-rb.bsky.social · Jul 7

@cl2025.co.uk Home after an excellent CL2025 conference where I got to share current research, represent the SCL book series, and reconnect with dear colleagues/friends I’ve known for 20+ years! Huge thanks to the whole organizing team, esp @robbielove.org, and hope to see everyone again soon!!

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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · Jul 4

@andrea.nini.com forensic linguist at the University of Manchester, and alum of
Aston University
speaks with Nicci and me about his evidence that the British teenager who had alleged rape, did not author a retraction statement even though it was written in her own handwriting.

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juliakrasselt.bsky.social @juliakrasselt.bsky.social · Jul 3

Thanks to @niallrcurry.bsky.social, @rachellevessey.bsky.social, @schtepf.bsky.social, Philipp Heinrich and Michael Bender for your very interesting and relevant presentations! (2/2)

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · Jul 3

We‘ve kept the best for last at #cl2025: @nfdykes.bsky.social shows how our research in @rc21project.bsky.social enables analysts to read concordances at scale using FlexiConc and neural sentence embeddings.

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · Jul 3

In case you missed the QR code during my talk on Geometric Multivariate Analysis @cl2025.co.uk: You can find slides, code, and data at osf.io/9p25y

Corpus Linguistics 2025

Presentation slides and reproduction materials for CL 2025 presentation “Finding structure in multivariate data” Hosted on the Open Science Framework

osf.io

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · Jul 3

@cl2025.co.uk today we hear Andrew Hardie‘s response to @lanthony.bsky.social‘s keynote last night. I very much align with Andrew‘s view of AI!

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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · Jun 30

This morning I was honoured to give the opening plenary at the #CL2025 conference - thanks to everyone who came along and engaged!

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