Linguistics, NLP, Cognitive Science. Research Scientist at FAIR (Meta, NYC), formerly at NYU Linguistics.
@dingemansemark @nsousanis @academicchatter
When I think of awesome academic comics, my former cohort mate and linguistics prof at UToronto Mississauga comes first to mind: Ai Taniguchi! She's not on mastodon afaik but I can't recommend her stuff enough!
LLMs' Syntax: Grammaticality uncanny valley?
Something is off about this Bingbot "utterance".
It feels maybe ambiguous between 'destroying whatever Bing wants to destroy' and 'destroying whatever Bing wants to have'?
Ellipserati pls help! Is the 'whatever' quantificational / Is this ACD?
So, who else is at #AAAI2023? Looking foward to sharing our work on modelling information change in science communication in my keynote on Saturday (16:45, ABC) @dustin
Also, Karolina will present our paper on intrinsic probing tomorrow (21:45, 149AB): https://underline.io/events/380/sessions/14503/lecture/68383-7881-a-latent-variable-model-for-intrinsic-probing ; https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08214
@texttheater oh it seems you may like Dowty's proto-roles paper (1991).
Happy to share our new paper “Language model acceptability judgements are not always robust to context” https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08979! We prepend several kinds of context to minimal linguistic #acceptability test pairs and find #LMs (#OPT, #GPT2) can still achieve strong performance on #BLiMP & #SyntaxGym, except in some interesting cases. 🧵 [1/7]
Joint work with @jon , @kanishka, @amuuueller, @keren fuentes, @roger_p_levy, @Adinawilliams
Genuinely infuriating story out of Northeastern University, involving spying on grad student "attendance" en masse without informing or obtaining consent: https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gwy3/no-grad-students-analyze-hack-and-remove-under-desk-surveillance-devices-designed-to-track-them
This, I'm sorry to say, reflects an attitude I encountered **often** during my years as university faculty. The last paragraph of the piece is especially worth noting, since OF COURSE the same individuals who harbor this pernicious attitude are also the ones who regularly spread brazen anti-union propaganda. Matches my experience 100%.
(h/t @researchfairy)
Dear colleague psychologists, Please read the preprint, "Dealing with Diversity in Psychology: Science and Ideology", by Dr. Steven Roberts, and then sign the open letter (in next toot) to ask for accountability for this racist treatment by the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science and for the EiC to resign. https://psyarxiv.com/xk4yu 1/n
@nsaphra I'm a section and a half into the Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius, it's reminding me of the trippiness of old, which is pretty fun: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14328/14328-h/14328-h.htm
