A PhD vacancy in a project on 𝐌𝐓 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 led by my colleagues @DShterionov + @Mir_DeSisto at TilburgU_DCA
• Fully funded position for 4 years.
• Starting salary € 2541 monthly + extras.
• Details: https://tiu.nu/21710

@mbollmann I don't know about the potato farmer scenario, but failing in rare cases in subtle and hard to notice ways is what happens with the vast majority of software that I've ever used.

I'm curious about transfer learning from non-language data to language (speech or text). Which papers should I be reading?

It's a foggy morning here today. In other news, the English word "mist", Polish "mgła" and Persian "میغ" /miɢ/ are all derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃meygʰ-.

🥳 Thrilled to announce our paper got accepted to #EACL2023!
We introduce *Value Zeroing*, a new interpretability method for quantifying context mixing in Transformers.

A joint work w/ me, @wzuidema, @gchrupala, and Afra

📑Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12971
☕Code: https://github.com/hmohebbi/ValueZeroing

#NLProc #InDeep

Not sure it really makes sense to require a limitations section for position papers @aclmeeting
What would go in there beyond "It's an opinion piece so take it or leave it."

Wild mammals make up only about 4% of the world’s mammal biomass

via our new page on biodiversity
https://ourworldindata.org/biodiversity

Originally learned from @yakabikaj at 🐦 :

Yiddish באקאליינע bakaleyne "grocery store", came to #Yiddish from #Ukrainian Бакалiя (groceries), to which it came from #Tatar, to which it came from #Persian (بقالی baqqālī,), to which it came from from #Arabic بقالة biqāla (groceries, retail store) or بقال baqqāl. Quite an unusual story of loaning across at least 5 #languages and linguistic families!

#language #etymology #linguistics

on further reflection I should perhaps not have accepted that promotion to a managerial position

@evanmiltenburg People rarely share their proposals, at least publicly.
I suspect the main reason is that we write proposals to show that we're competent enough to get funding but rarely end up carrying out the work described in them precisely. In practice, there is usually only a tenuous relation between the content of the proposal, and the outcome of the project.

International poll, so please boost for a wider sample.

How many languages can you read (and, of course, understand!) without the help of an online translator?

@chrshmmmr @roydanroy Tomato Tomayto

@chrshmmmr @roydanroy Hey you just quote tooted Eugen.

@texttheater https://sigmoid.social/@gchrupala/109552359489628637

@shriramk @RWerpachowski On Tusky your can interact with links to posts and accounts on other servers without jumping through any hoops. No random notification counts that don't update. It looks decent. Things are easier to find in the UI.

@RWerpachowski I use Tusky and it works OK. Certainly much better than the web interface.

The mastodon web app is so bad, I'm gonna cry. Why can't it work more like Tusky.