Nathan Schneider

Computational Linguist and Professional Nerd at Georgetown University

he/him pronouns, ALL the prepositions

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Nathan Schneidercomplingy@sigmoid.social
2023-12-14

@Cyrus @antoniahamilton Maybe, but this was attested from a native speaker.

Nathan Schneidercomplingy@sigmoid.social
2023-12-14

@antoniahamilton I have heard of pedants calling for "may" in requests for permission (objecting to "Can I use the bathroom?"). But requests for somebody else to do something?

Nathan Schneidercomplingy@sigmoid.social
2023-12-13
Nathan Schneidercomplingy@sigmoid.social
2023-12-13

Received a grammar question about requests like "May you update the team?" ("may" instead of "would" or "can"). Has anybody heard of this phenomenon? #Linguistics #modality

Nathan Schneidercomplingy@sigmoid.social
2023-11-29

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Nathan Schneidercomplingy@sigmoid.social
2023-11-29

@fay @_dmh I don't know details of the current situation, but I worry a per-author cap could be unfair to students in large labs or disincentivize including collaborators as coauthors.

Nathan Schneidercomplingy@sigmoid.social
2023-09-20

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Nathan Schneidercomplingy@sigmoid.social
2023-01-28

@evanmiltenburg One word: dessert.

Nathan Schneidercomplingy@sigmoid.social
2023-01-22
Nathan Schneidercomplingy@sigmoid.social
2023-01-19

@leon There's an interesting line of work on metrics for interannotator agreement in NLP (by Massimo Poesio, for example).
But raw agreement/F1 + discussion of the class distribution may be good enough in practice for giving a rough impression of quality.

Nathan Schneidercomplingy@sigmoid.social
2023-01-19

@leon Reviewers often do expect kappa scores though. I have been known to present raw agreement in the text with a disclaimer about kappa in a footnote.

Footnote: "Average of pairwise Cohen’s κ is 0.733 and 0.799 on, respectively, role and function, suggesting strong agreement. However, it is worth noting that annotators selected labels from a ranked list, with the ranking determined by preposition type. The model of chance agreement underlying κ does not take the identity of the preposition into account, and thus likely underestimates the probability of chance agreement."
Nathan Schneidercomplingy@sigmoid.social
2023-01-08

@EvilJoeMcVeigh Any past participle can work in this construction, not just "been", right? "I been" and "I seen" in the second panel are the same construction I believe. I don't have it in my dialect, but I certainly recognize it. The "I've seen" surprises me there—is it a deliberate shift between styles?

For me, in casual speech, a 2nd person question licenses omission of the auxiliary ("You been asleep?", "You seen anything you want?") more readily than others: *He been asleep?

Nathan Schneidercomplingy@sigmoid.social
2023-01-07

@nsaphra I prefer mercury in centigrade.

Nathan Schneidercomplingy@sigmoid.social
2023-01-02

@dingemansemark Eventually it'll become a circle. :)

Nathan Schneidercomplingy@sigmoid.social
2023-01-02

@dingemansemark Neat! Did the hexagon predate the octagon?

Nathan Schneidercomplingy@sigmoid.social
2022-12-30

@nsaphra Stealing the name Useless Week

Nathan Schneidercomplingy@sigmoid.social
2022-12-30

@msherr And, if the research cited in this piece is correct, it'll help students remember the language model's BS better! But I don't see how the stuff about having to adapt one's writing is relevant in the slightest if one is copying from a computer.

Nathan Schneidercomplingy@sigmoid.social
2022-12-29

Someone really should create a course entitled Installing Python Libraries Written in C++ on Your Mac

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