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Reposted by: Jack Grieve

matteofuoli.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Jack Grieve

timgrant123.bsky.social
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
Show flyer for new podcast called Writing Wrongs which is now available to subscribe to with a trailer on podcast platforms. Logo is a blood spattered typewriter. The first episodes will be released 7th March with other others to follow 1st Friday of each month. Episodes advertised are - Timothy Evans a Case for Forensic Linguistics - An interview with Kate Summerscale author of The Peepshow - Impostors Tending to the Wild with Dr Isobelle Clarke - Foreyginsic Lingeyguistic A murder In Eggs Latin - Romance Fraud The linguistic Crime Scene with Dr Elisabeth Carter - The Disputed Confessions of Darnell Rusan with Dr Marlon Hurt - They Said She Said The Ayia Napa Rape Case with Dr Andrea Nini - a Questions and Answers episode Podcast email address is WritingWrongs@aston.ac.uk
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Reposted by: Jack Grieve

meow-factor.bsky.social
I have made a screenshot of the image in my book (ebook format), I have also included a map of "meow"
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by Jack Grieve

jwgrieve.bsky.social
I assume I’ve shown you this back on Twitter at some point…
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by Jack Grieve

jwgrieve.bsky.social
Thanks! @danaroemling.bsky.social
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by Jack Grieve

jwgrieve.bsky.social
Thanks!
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Reposted by: Jack Grieve

danaroemling.bsky.social
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
doi.org
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by Jack Grieve

jwgrieve.bsky.social
Thanks, Tim!
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by Jack Grieve

jwgrieve.bsky.social
You could never intrude, Tony!
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by Jack Grieve

jwgrieve.bsky.social
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.
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by Jack Grieve

jwgrieve.bsky.social
Thanks!

by Jack Grieve

jwgrieve.bsky.social
I am very aware. It should all be in AmE
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by Jack Grieve

jwgrieve.bsky.social
Thanks!

by Jack Grieve — Reposted by: Jack Grieve, Sylvie Grosjean

jwgrieve.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Jack Grieve

zeerak.bsky.social
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
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by Jack Grieve

jwgrieve.bsky.social
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...
arxiv.org
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Reposted by: Jack Grieve

lcuob.bsky.social
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
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by Jack Grieve

jwgrieve.bsky.social
Sure!
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Reposted by: Jack Grieve

robbielove.org
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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Reposted by: Jack Grieve, Elena Semino

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Reposted by: Jack Grieve, Elena Semino

markmcglashan.com
Did one!

Not listed and should be? Let me know 🙂

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by Jack Grieve

jwgrieve.bsky.social
Full house for @bodowinter.bsky.social’s department talk tonight!
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by Jack Grieve

jwgrieve.bsky.social
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...
arxiv.org
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by Jack Grieve

jwgrieve.bsky.social
New paper on the language of fake news with Bashayer Baissa and Matteo Fuoli

doi.org/10.1177/1750...
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Reposted by: Jack Grieve

stronglang.bsky.social
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
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by Jack Grieve

jwgrieve.bsky.social
Full house for Harald Baayen at University of Birmingham!
Harald Baayen presenting
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by Jack Grieve

jwgrieve.bsky.social
New interview I did with Robbie Love on Computational Sociolinguistics!

youtu.be/0RV1XDGgzZQ?...
Screen cap of Robbie Love interviewing me
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by Jack Grieve

jwgrieve.bsky.social
First post, new paper on the way!
Draft of ‘The Sociolinguistic Foundations of Language Modelling’
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