Nathan Schneider
@complingy.bsky.social
Computational Linguist and Professional Nerd at Georgetown University
he/him pronouns, ALL the prepositions. http://nathan.cl
he/him pronouns, ALL the prepositions. http://nathan.cl
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Currently accepting applications on a rolling basis! Postdoc in Empirical Approaches to Legal Interpretation, with a start date of Fall 2025. A great opportunity to work with the wonderful @complingy.bsky.social @kevintobia.bsky.social
Details here: apply.interfolio.com/170055
Details here: apply.interfolio.com/170055
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July 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Currently accepting applications on a rolling basis! Postdoc in Empirical Approaches to Legal Interpretation, with a start date of Fall 2025. A great opportunity to work with the wonderful @complingy.bsky.social @kevintobia.bsky.social
Details here: apply.interfolio.com/170055
Details here: apply.interfolio.com/170055
Me: English doesn't have resumptive pronouns.
Also me: It says to cool on wire racks, which I don't know where they are.
#syntax #RelativeClauses
Also me: It says to cool on wire racks, which I don't know where they are.
#syntax #RelativeClauses
May 31, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Me: English doesn't have resumptive pronouns.
Also me: It says to cool on wire racks, which I don't know where they are.
#syntax #RelativeClauses
Also me: It says to cool on wire racks, which I don't know where they are.
#syntax #RelativeClauses
7 Supreme Court justices: linguists may actually know something about how to interpret language?
Justice Thomas: now that's crazy talk.
Justice Thomas: now that's crazy talk.
March 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
7 Supreme Court justices: linguists may actually know something about how to interpret language?
Justice Thomas: now that's crazy talk.
Justice Thomas: now that's crazy talk.
Our survey highlights the enduring influence of linguistics on #NLProc. We emphasize 6 facets: Resources, Evaluation, Low-resource settings, Interpretability, Explanation, and the Study of language.
Happy to share that our paper, "Natural Language Processing RELIES on Linguistics," will appear in Computational Linguistics!
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2405.05966
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2405.05966
March 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Our survey highlights the enduring influence of linguistics on #NLProc. We emphasize 6 facets: Resources, Evaluation, Low-resource settings, Interpretability, Explanation, and the Study of language.
Reposted by Nathan Schneider
📣 New Paper ⚖️🧑⚖️🏛️ Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don't Take Their Word for It 👩⚖️🏛️⚖️ with @bwal.bsky.social , @complingy.bsky.social Amir Zeldes, and @kevintobia.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don't Take Their Word for It
<p><span>Recent breakthroughs in statistical language modeling have impacted countless domains, including the law. Chatbot applications such as ChatGPT, Claude,
papers.ssrn.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📣 New Paper ⚖️🧑⚖️🏛️ Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don't Take Their Word for It 👩⚖️🏛️⚖️ with @bwal.bsky.social , @complingy.bsky.social Amir Zeldes, and @kevintobia.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Four (4!) postdocs, neurosci of language, Georgetown University NeurosciLang Training Program docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 26, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Four (4!) postdocs, neurosci of language, Georgetown University NeurosciLang Training Program docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 26, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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A lovely obituary for Bill Labov in the Inquirer.
William Labov, ‘father of sociolinguistics’ who studied the Philadelphia accent, dies at 97
William Labov's work changed whose dialects linguists saw worthy of study and dove into the socioeconomic politics of language. He is considered the father of sociolinguistics.
www.inquirer.com
December 24, 2024 at 12:17 AM
A lovely obituary for Bill Labov in the Inquirer.
Garden path of the day: "Merchan wrote the Supreme Court’s ruling that Trump should receive broad immunity for official acts during his time in office did not mean the conviction should be dismissed...."
December 17, 2024 at 2:24 AM
Garden path of the day: "Merchan wrote the Supreme Court’s ruling that Trump should receive broad immunity for official acts during his time in office did not mean the conviction should be dismissed...."
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[POLL] What do you think about the grammaticality of the following sentence?:
"I’m not getting as good of service out here as I thought I would."
(absent a poll feature, reply with 👍 or 👎, and feel free to explain yourself)
"I’m not getting as good of service out here as I thought I would."
(absent a poll feature, reply with 👍 or 👎, and feel free to explain yourself)
December 13, 2024 at 11:27 PM
[POLL] What do you think about the grammaticality of the following sentence?:
"I’m not getting as good of service out here as I thought I would."
(absent a poll feature, reply with 👍 or 👎, and feel free to explain yourself)
"I’m not getting as good of service out here as I thought I would."
(absent a poll feature, reply with 👍 or 👎, and feel free to explain yourself)
Today I had the honor of hooding Dr. Shira Wein (shirawein.github.io), whose Ph.D. consisted of groundbreaking #NLProc research on crosslingual meaning representation!
May 16, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Today I had the honor of hooding Dr. Shira Wein (shirawein.github.io), whose Ph.D. consisted of groundbreaking #NLProc research on crosslingual meaning representation!
Linguistics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MDF... @lhlew.bsky.social
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May 12, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Linguistics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MDF... @lhlew.bsky.social
Are English synthetic comparatives (-er/-est) losing ground to analytic comparatives (more/most)? I often notice people writing "more fine-grained" whereas I would opt for "finer-grained", and just this week I've seen "more stark" and "most stark" in writing from two people who are younger than me.
April 19, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Are English synthetic comparatives (-er/-est) losing ground to analytic comparatives (more/most)? I often notice people writing "more fine-grained" whereas I would opt for "finer-grained", and just this week I've seen "more stark" and "most stark" in writing from two people who are younger than me.
Reading some remarks on the state of AI (🧵):
"Artificial intelligence is currently in vogue. It is this field that is currently entrusted with that elusive magician's wand which is supposed to help solve all the problems of knowledge, language, and universal welfare.
"Artificial intelligence is currently in vogue. It is this field that is currently entrusted with that elusive magician's wand which is supposed to help solve all the problems of knowledge, language, and universal welfare.
April 7, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Reading some remarks on the state of AI (🧵):
"Artificial intelligence is currently in vogue. It is this field that is currently entrusted with that elusive magician's wand which is supposed to help solve all the problems of knowledge, language, and universal welfare.
"Artificial intelligence is currently in vogue. It is this field that is currently entrusted with that elusive magician's wand which is supposed to help solve all the problems of knowledge, language, and universal welfare.
*Spiderman pointing meme* INVITING PEOPLE FOR SERVICE ROLES / BEING INVITED FOR SERVICE ROLES
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
March 30, 2024 at 4:22 AM
*Spiderman pointing meme* INVITING PEOPLE FOR SERVICE ROLES / BEING INVITED FOR SERVICE ROLES
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
Anyone know the origin of the expression "snacks on snacks on snacks"? It came up in my prepositions course when we discussed the Noun-Preposition-Noun construction.
March 21, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Anyone know the origin of the expression "snacks on snacks on snacks"? It came up in my prepositions course when we discussed the Noun-Preposition-Noun construction.
Best sentence of the Supreme Court oral argument, for obvious reasons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VpJ...
"My friend relies on a claimed difference between an 'office under' and an 'officer of' the United States, but this case does not come down to mere prepositions."
#SCOTUS #lingsky #prepositions
"My friend relies on a claimed difference between an 'office under' and an 'officer of' the United States, but this case does not come down to mere prepositions."
#SCOTUS #lingsky #prepositions
February 10, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Best sentence of the Supreme Court oral argument, for obvious reasons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VpJ...
"My friend relies on a claimed difference between an 'office under' and an 'officer of' the United States, but this case does not come down to mere prepositions."
#SCOTUS #lingsky #prepositions
"My friend relies on a claimed difference between an 'office under' and an 'officer of' the United States, but this case does not come down to mere prepositions."
#SCOTUS #lingsky #prepositions
In the supermarket, overheard a new (to me) verb: "(I can't be) favoritizing you over everybody else."
Seems like a blend of "favor X over Y" and the more specific meaning of 'play favorites'?
@adelegoldberg.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social
Seems like a blend of "favor X over Y" and the more specific meaning of 'play favorites'?
@adelegoldberg.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social
February 3, 2024 at 8:32 PM
In the supermarket, overheard a new (to me) verb: "(I can't be) favoritizing you over everybody else."
Seems like a blend of "favor X over Y" and the more specific meaning of 'play favorites'?
@adelegoldberg.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social
Seems like a blend of "favor X over Y" and the more specific meaning of 'play favorites'?
@adelegoldberg.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social
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release day release day 🥳 OLMo 1b +7b out today and 65b soon...
OLMo accelerates the study of LMs. We release *everything*, from toolkit for creating data (Dolma) to train/inf code
blog blog.allenai.org/olmo-open-la...
olmo paper allenai.org/olmo/olmo-pa...
dolma paper allenai.org/olmo/dolma-p...
OLMo accelerates the study of LMs. We release *everything*, from toolkit for creating data (Dolma) to train/inf code
blog blog.allenai.org/olmo-open-la...
olmo paper allenai.org/olmo/olmo-pa...
dolma paper allenai.org/olmo/dolma-p...
OLMo: Open Language Model
A State-Of-The-Art, Truly Open LLM and Framework
blog.allenai.org
February 1, 2024 at 7:33 PM
release day release day 🥳 OLMo 1b +7b out today and 65b soon...
OLMo accelerates the study of LMs. We release *everything*, from toolkit for creating data (Dolma) to train/inf code
blog blog.allenai.org/olmo-open-la...
olmo paper allenai.org/olmo/olmo-pa...
dolma paper allenai.org/olmo/dolma-p...
OLMo accelerates the study of LMs. We release *everything*, from toolkit for creating data (Dolma) to train/inf code
blog blog.allenai.org/olmo-open-la...
olmo paper allenai.org/olmo/olmo-pa...
dolma paper allenai.org/olmo/dolma-p...
Why does English have no transitive verb for "bid farewell to", as a counterpart to "greet"? I feel like I need a top hat and a monocle to express this concept. #lingsky
February 1, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Why does English have no transitive verb for "bid farewell to", as a counterpart to "greet"? I feel like I need a top hat and a monocle to express this concept. #lingsky
Excerpt of my internal monologue: "Some shirts I feel better when I wear than others...ugggh it feels dirty to topicalize out of an adjunct huh...."
January 11, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Excerpt of my internal monologue: "Some shirts I feel better when I wear than others...ugggh it feels dirty to topicalize out of an adjunct huh...."