I was just sent this photo, supposedly taken in 1994: Björn Beutel, developer of the Malaga language, and myself are working in the CLUE (Computational Linguistics University of Erlangen) lab.

I’m a bit hesitant to tag this #retrocomputing ;-)

#CompLing #NLProc #Erlangen

Wir sind wieder da!

Die Sanierung jenes Teils der #UniBielefeld, in dem sich unser alter Fachschafts-Raum befand, hat begonnen.

Wir haben aber jetzt Zugriff auf einen neuen Raum und können wieder öffentlich zu unseren Treffen einladen.

Ihr könnt uns bei unseren Treffen jederzeit besuchen!

Diese finden…

- Montags um 12:00 Uhr (s. t.)…
- … alle zwei Wochen, und zwar in den geraden KWen…
- … im Raum D3-139…

… statt. :) Wir freuen uns!

#Uni #Fachschaft #CompLing #Computerlinguistik #Bielefeld

Dear NLP folks, if you have an account in the Fediverse (e.g., Mastodon), you can now follow us by this handle: @starsem.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy. To do this seamlessly, simply go to our followers page (fed.brid.gy/bsky/starsem...), put your Fediverse address and click Follow! #NLProc #CompLing

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At #NAACL this week and I’m delighted to see the name change to “Nations of the Americas” as well as the special theme for this year of multi- and cross-culturalism in #NLP.

#NLProc #AI #LLMs #LanguageModels #CompLing #ComputationalLinguistics

As long as you...

(1) host and run it yourself,
(2) it's open source,
(3) it's not trained on art or personal data,
(4) it's not constantly re-trained at extreme energy costs to be "up to date",
(5) it's not advertised as an information source, therapy, search engine, artificial intelligence or anything else it's not,

there's literally no ethical issue in #LLM. It's just a mathematical language model.

#LLMs #linguistics #compling #AI #computationallinguistics #chatgpt

I wonder how #hashtags would have been developed differently if they had been invented and popularised by people speaking a #language with strongly marked cases.

If I post 'Sauce mit Pilzen' (German for 'sauce with mushrooms'), and I would like to tag the mushrooms, I can't just go '#Pilzen', because '#Pilzen' is a different hashtag from '#Pilze'. Let alone #Pilzes and #Pilz.

Would we tag things with #SemanticWeb URIs?
#hashtag #tech #compling #computationallinguistics #l10n #i18n #linguistics

🇬🇧 Hey there!

I'm #newHere at the Localization Café. ☕

I have been working as a freelancer for some time, translating and localising what mostly ends up being #videoGames. My language pair is #English and #German.

Outside my #freelancing work, I am a #linguistics and #compLing student who is currently finishing up my dual degree.

In the future I would like to work as an in-house localisation worker in the #gaming industry; fingers crossed, since #gamedev is a difficult field to get into! :)

Hallo liebe Mit-Studierende!

Das #Sommersemester 2025 hat fast begonnen und das heißt natürlich auch, dass wir als Fachschaft #Computerlinguistik uns an die Arbeit machen, Euch bestmöglich zu vertreten!

Aufgrund der Sanierungsarbeiten an der #UniBielefeld fällt unser üblicher Treffpunkt leider weg.

Wir halten Euch über unsere öffentlichen Freitagstreffen auf dem Laufenden!

#Studium #Uni #Wissenschaft #Bielefeld #Universität #Academia #CompLing #ComputationalLinguistics #UnisInsFediverse

Position opening: #CompLing, #NLP, #CogSci

Junior Group Leader / PostDoc
(4y, German E14 salary scale) @ Uni Tübingen

- no teaching obligations
- PhD co-supervision
- dynamic interdisciplinary team in one of Germany’s top research universities

https://tinyurl.com/jhxb4wu2

Studierst Du #Computerlinguistik in #Bielefeld und arbeitest an spannenden Programmier-Projekten, Hausarbeiten, Papers o. Ä.?

Die Fachschaft #CompLing möchte Euch die Möglichkeit geben, eure Arbeit vorzustellen; ganz egal in welchem Semester ihr seid oder wie komplex euer Projekt ist. :) Sammelt Feedback, Kontakte und die Erfahrung, Forschung zu kommunizieren.

Interesse an einem solchen "studentischen Kolloquium"? Dann schreibt uns bitte eine E-Mail. :)
#Linguistik #UniBielefeld #Wissenschaft

Hallo!

Wir sind die #Fachschaft #Computerlinguistik an der #UniBielefeld!

Als Vertretung für all diejenigen, die bei uns #CompLing studieren, helfen wir bei studienrelevanten Problemen und vermitteln mit dem Lehrpersonal, veranstalten fachbezogene und sonstige Events, und sorgen natürlich auch für eine alternative Freizeitgestaltung. :)

Ab jetzt exklusiv #neuhier auf Mastodon.

#Wissenschaft #Bielefeld #Forschung #Linguistik #Universität

A reminder that I'm still accepting queries from prospective PhD students for Fall 2025! If you're interested in #CompLing or #NLProc for humour, historical online corpora, or #Indigenous languages, please get in touch! https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/open-positions

#CfP LaTeCH-CLfL 2024: The 8th Joint #SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural
Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature to be held in March 2024 in conjunction with EACL 2024 https://2024.eacl.org/ in Malta.

☞ https://sighum.wordpress.com/latech-clfl-2024/

#DigitalHumanities #ComputationalHumanities #NLProc #CompLing

It seems we may have reached the beginning of the end of #crowdsourcing linguistic annotations for #NLProc and #CompLing. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/22/1075405/the-people-paid-to-train-ai-are-outsourcing-their-work-to-ai/

Mike Amundsen: Hypermedia & Professional Music - The Compiling Podcast! With Rob Z. and Friends https://compiling.publicgeeking.com/episodes/mike-amundsen/

enjoyed joining #RobZazueta for his #Compling podcast.

he's the first person to get me to talk at length about my "other career" before tech!

#RobZ #podcast

Tomorrow (June 1) at 17.00 CET @RSprugnoli will hold a workshop "Introduzione al Natural Language Processing" within the series "Aspettando #aiucd2023" (also online; in Italian) http://www.aiucd2023.unisi.it/workshop/
#digitalhumanities #NLP #naturallanguageprocessing #CompLing

When I started in #ComputationalLinguistics / #NLProc, some of the stuff with word embeddings and topic modeling felt like kind of a stretch re: what we could do with language models, but at least the formalisms were interesting and it felt like there was an effort to treat it as exploratory and not "hey language models understand language!" Now it feels like the field has been co-opted by all the #MathyMaths and #TESCREAL bullshit, and I so desperately want to get back to real #CompLing

I don't love the word"chunking" but apparently the concept is pretty important! #NLProc #CompLing #Linguistics

Shout out to the amazing ACL anthology which provides open access publishing for most #compling / #nlp venues and to all the hardworking folks within ACL reviewing & looking to improve the reviewing process.

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Hey #CompLing #CL #NLProc folks – what's some of your favorite #CompLing work that's not just feeding or fed by #AIHype? Doesn't need to be related to #ML. All the hype has got me down and I could really use some cool language-y computer-y stuff that isn't #AISnakeOil BS.