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A somewhat different topic for me⊠Iâm happy to announce the publication of the article âSentence-centric modeling of the writing processâ in the Journal of Writing Research, co-authored with @CerstinMahlow and MaĆgorzata Anna UĆasik:
I now saw several talks addressing creativity when âwritingâ with LLMs, either as main topic or a contributing one. All fail (or imply refuse) to define or operationalize âcreativity.â They mainly retreat to human annotation/assessment by applying âHumans know it when they see it.â Which, hm, never mind
Reviews are in for the second journal paper of my doctoral student (co-authored by supervisors). Looks like âminor revisionsâ + âcould you shorten the paper? like, 20%?â
Should be doable in three hours? No big deal, sure, we can meet the short deadline even with the doctoral student on vacation.
And here we are, 35 working hours into heavy revisions and discussions: the supervisors are about to fork the paper! And then onto the next round of revisions!
#TIL that shoes have collars! THAT'S what the opening of a shoe is called. Category is ... things writers need to look up for scenes with a monster clinging to someone's foot... #WritingResearch #AmWriting #Words
That's me, in a #ZHAW video, talking about my research and generative AI
#WritingResearch #DigitalLinguistics
(and maybe, hopefully, I have a sticker of the new hockey master on my laptop?)
https://youtu.be/8u4L54tm-PU?feature=shared
I'm very happy to announce that my PhD student Anna (co-supervisor: @CerstinMahlow) has published her first first-author paper (open access):
MaĆgorzata Anna UĆasik and Aleksandra MiletiÄ (2024). "Automated Extraction and Analysis of Sentences under Production: A Theoretical Framework and Its Evaluation.â In: Languages 9(3), 71.
Just out âAutomated Extraction and Analysis of Sentences under Production: A Theoretical Framework and Its Evaluationâ (MaĆgorzata Anna UĆasik & Aleksandra MiletĂc)
A very nice paper on the role of sentences in writing & how to research the process of sentence production
* I might be biased as Anna is doing her PhD with me and @mxp
** Yes, I know, MDPI etc., but please read it, the ideas on sentences in writing have potential to significantly advance #WritingResearch
Calling all #writers and #doctorwho Nerds!
The #whoniverse script library just got a massive boost.
Before, there were only a few. Now It looks like EVERY script from #nuwho is on there.
Hoping for #classicwho to be added in future!
#writing #writingcommunity #writingresearch #writingchat #screenwriting
Video of cuttlefish hunting. You get to see its feeding tentacles!
#WritingResearch #AmWriting #Cephalopod #Cuttlefish
#TIL they make bolsters that you can strap onto your shoulders so that your shoulder-cat has a wider perch. It was #WritingResearch, I swear! (I was looking for bird shoulder perch information.)
Today's #WritingResearch fun was actually critiquing fun--looking up non-anachronistic words for the act of blowing on a baby's belly to make a buzzing noise. Apparently zerbert is from the Bill Cosby show?!?
âBlowing a raspberryâ is from the early 1900s. But just "raspberry" meaning "a rude sound" (from 1890) is a shortening of raspberry tart, rhyming slang for fart. I learned so much!
In today's #WritingResearch rabbit holes, I found a bizarre Thai Dentyne Ice commercial. How did I end up here? By searching for whether squid have eyelids! (Answer: depends on the squid.)
#CephalapodMagic #Cephalopod #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
#tattooartists ! Could anyone suggest a good book about #tattooart so I can learn more about the profession for a character I'd like to write? Or would anyone be willing to respond to a questionnaire for me?
#writingresearch #WritingCommunity #tattoo #tattoos
TIL baby cuttlefish are called cuttlets. đ
#words #cute #CephalapodMagic #cephalopod #AmWriting #WritingResearch
Things I've Googled for my current chapter:
* Prozac
* Videos of people falling down stairs
* Sunrise and sunset times by month in the UK
* When did the National Lottery start?
* Synonyms of 'illegal'
And this is why I'm not managing to catch up on my missed day.
Look what I found!!! Roman empire google maps. Do you want to know the fastest route to get an army from Constantinople to London? Or how long it would take to get from Jerusalem to Rome on a shoe string? Of course you do!
Spent today in Edinburgh (mainly to avoid Sam) on a trip around the Grassmarket to the second hand bookshops. Then had a wander round West Bow (where my MCs live). The Festival is on just now so the atmosphere is brilliant. The red house is the one my MCs live in, and I visited the church they wouldâve gone to at Greyfriars. So many ideas! Having a burger then itâs home to the laptop! #writing #writingcommunity #edinburgh #greyfriars #writingresearch
Do you know what's impossible to find? Solid data on the percentage of people who've given birth have long-term physical side effects from it over a year later. Even info on specific conditions is hard to find. Post-partum depression, sure! A simple overall percentage of physical damage? Nope!
I want a meta-study, damn it. This is just for ONE throwaway line in my book, but I want accurate data. Harrumph.
#amwritingsf #amwriting #writingresearch #writingcommunity #research #pregnancy #question
So someone on Mastodon posted this link to an scholarly article about research into writing on wax: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctv1sr6hgk.7
Which I finally got around to reading today (both #WritingResearch and general interest).
And they got an expert to inscribe cuneiform on one of their wax paste formulations to show what a new writing board might have looked like.
And they snuck the translation into the footnotes.
And itâs a sex poem.
Wind blow, orchard shake,
Clouds gather, droplets fall!
Let my potency be steady as running river water,
Let my penis be a taut harpstring,
Let it not slip out of her!
Nothing like a Mesopotamian anti-impotency incantation to start the day right. Though oneâs penis being a harpstring is not quite the flex it once was, perhaps.
