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Johann-Mattis List
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Linguist leading the Chair for Multilingual Computational Linguistics at the University of Passau. Working on computer-assisted approaches to historical and typological language comparison.
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New blog post in our #CALC in Practice Blog / Journal:

"Manipulating Lexical Forms with the PyLexibank FormSpec"

calc.hypotheses.org/8877

doi.org/10.15475/cal...
Manipulating Lexical Forms with the PyLexibank FormSpec
Multilingual lexical data is typically stored in a wide variety of forms, based on many idiosyncratic decisions that vary from dataset to dataset. Here, a simple but efficient solution for the manipul...
calc.hypotheses.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
lingulist.de
New preprint with Barbara Meisterernst, on a database of qù-tone alternations in Ancient Chinese, now out with Open-Research-Europe, awaiting open peer review.

doi.org/10.12688/ope...

The database can be accessed at qualternations.digling.org
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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crlao-ling.bsky.social
PHONO-ML Database
La base de données de transcriptions phonétiques en chinois moyen produite par Alexander Delaporte et Guillaume Jacques au CRLAO est disponible publiquement :
Gitlab Huma-Num = gitlab.huma-num.fr/phono-ml/dat...
Github = github.com/alxdrdelapor...
Zenodo = doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
PHONO-ML / PHONO-ML Database · GitLab
Gitlab Huma-Num
gitlab.huma-num.fr
October 21, 2025 at 9:59 AM
lingulist.de
Mein Blogbeitrag via @dehypotheses.bsky.social für Oktober beschäftigt sich mit wissenschaftlichen Konstrukten und wie man sie kommuniziert.

Von gefühlten Tatsachen

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Von gefühlten Tatsachen
In einem Touché-Comic, den die TAZ auf Bluesky vor ein paar Tagen teilte, wird ein älterer Herr im Schlafanzug von zwei älteren Damen, die an seiner Tür klingeln, zu früher Uhrzeit geweckt. Als er sic...
wub.hypotheses.org
October 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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profgerhard.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
Redirecting
doi.org
October 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
lingulist.de
New preprint by Katja Bocklage (PhD in our ERC project) and many others from our chair just published online with Humanities Commons.

Testing the Potential of Automatically Inferred Affix Colexifications for Linguistic Typology

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Testing the Potential of Automatically Inferred Affix Colexifications for Linguistic Typology
Cross-linguistic colexification patterns have proven useful for quantitative studies in lexical typology. While most studies focus on full colexification, where senses are co-expressed by the same wor...
works.hcommons.org
October 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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christinawarinner.bsky.social
We're so happy to share our newest ancient DNA findings in Mongolia on the Slab Grave expansion and its consequences for diverse Bronze Age pastoralists! doi.org/10.1038/s414...
September 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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digitalorientalist.bsky.social
#OTD 5 yrs ago: @mzorki.bsky.social shared some thoughts on #regularexpressions, starting from what they are, and how frequently we use them without even realizing it!

#digitallife #digitaltools #regex #tbt

digitalorientalist.com/2020/09/25/s...
Some thoughts on regular expressions
What are regular expressions and why use them? Those who are interested in the digital humanities or corpus linguistics are very likely to come across regular expressions (or in short regex) – a sy…
digitalorientalist.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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archive.org
Big news: Internet Archive Europe ( @internetarchive.eu ) has opened its new HQ in Amsterdam! 🎉 A home for preservation, access & shared cultural heritage.

Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...
Freedom and Sharing at the Internet Archive Europe
On Friday, in a narrow, cream-painted 17th-century row house facing a wide canal bathed in golden light, the Internet Archive Europe celebrated the opening of its new headquarters in Amsterdam. Around...
flaminghydra.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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malterehbein.bsky.social
che.hypotheses.org/1128

#ecology #dh #anthropocene #humboldt #computationalhumanities #digitalhumanities #history
Exploring the Anthropocene Through the Macroscope: A Joint Venture (On Computational Historical Ecology Part II)
There is no culture without nature, and the reverse is equally true: human culture has always shaped nature. This shaping includes, at its extreme, the widespread abuse, exploitation, and destruction ...
che.hypotheses.org
September 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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dingemansemark.bsky.social
quelle surprise that academia dot edu now offers AI slopcasts
they were a garbage flattery service ten years ago, and they have turned up the enshittification a few notches ideophone.org/academia-edu...
How Academia.edu promotes poor metadata and plays to our vanity – The Ideophone
ideophone.org
June 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
lingulist.de
New post by our doctoral student Arne Rubehn in our CALCiP journal / blog.

"Integrating Semantic Embeddings into NoRaRe"

calc.hypotheses.org/8783
Integrating Semantic Embeddings into NoRaRe
This study illustrates how semantic embeddings can be added to and retrieved from NoRaRe. By that, it provides a template for handling vector data and makes popular methodology in semantic modeling av...
calc.hypotheses.org
September 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
lingulist.de
Mein neuer Blogbeitrag im September, via @dehypotheses.bsky.social, geht auf einige interessante Parallelen zwischen der Mathematik und der historischen Linguistik ein.

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Schon gesehen
Vor Kurzem bin ich auf einen sehr interesssanten Artikel gestoßen, der einen populärwissenschaftlichen Überblück zu den Versuchen in der Mathematik gibt, Beweise automatisiert prüfen zu lassen (Bischo...
wub.hypotheses.org
September 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
lingulist.de
Already yesterday, my new post in our #CALC in Practice Blog/Journal appeared, this time

Illustrating Data Curation in NoRaRe with the Help of Templates

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Illustrating Data Curation in NoRaRe with the Help of Templates
This study introduces a collection of templates that can be used to contribute data to the Database of Norms, Ratings, and Relations (NoRaRe) of words and concepts. The templates are intended to facil...
calc.hypotheses.org
August 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
lingulist.de
Mein Blogbeitrag im August, via @dehypotheses.bsky.social befasst sich mit Ambiguitäten von bestimmten sprachlichen Konstruktionen.

Von subjektiven und objektiven Fällen

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Von subjektiven und objektiven Fällen
Obwohl ich als Linguist eigentlich meist fasziniert bin von grammatischen Konstrukten, kann ich doch gut verstehen, wenn sich dem einen oder der anderen der Magen umdreht, wenn sie sich an die grammat...
wub.hypotheses.org
August 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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behrwolf.bsky.social
2 Ph.D. positions (48m/100% FTE) in the project "Description of the endangered Mönpa language of Bhutan” headed by Tim Bodt at Trinity College Dublin
www.tcd.ie/media/tcd/sl...
www.tcd.ie
August 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
lingulist.de
Testing the ACL@Vienna coffee cups for their ability to hold objects beyond beverages. #ACL2025
July 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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unipassauresearch.bsky.social
Human and a robot are sitting at a kitchen table. The human says, ‘Please pass me the salt.’ The robot does so. Did the machine understand the request? In a public lecture, linguists Professor @lingulist.de and Dr Christian Bentz provide plenty of food for thought.

#KeepCALLM
🧪
Machines with a pinch of common sense?
Does AI understand human language? Linguists Professor Johann-Mattis List and Dr Christian Bentz conduct thought experiments and offer a bleak prognosis.
www.digital.uni-passau.de
July 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
lingulist.de
Our team's papers at SIGTYP@ACL Vienna are online now.

"Robustness of Concept Translations in the Compilation of Multilingual Wordlists" by Snee et al.
aclanthology.org/2025.sigtyp-...

"Compositional Structures in Numeral Systems Across Languages" by Rubehn et al.
aclanthology.org/2025.sigtyp-...
Unstable Grounds for Beautiful Trees? Testing the Robustness of Concept Translations in the Compilation of Multilingual Wordlists
David Snee, Luca Ciucci, Arne Rubehn, Kellen Parker Van Dam, Johann-Mattis List. Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP. 2025.
aclanthology.org
July 27, 2025 at 5:41 AM
lingulist.de
It is official, our two long papers at #ACL2025 have now been published. Common work with Arne Rubehn (Concept Embeddings), and Frederic Blum and @sherbold.bsky.social (Automated Language Affiliation).

aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...
aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...
Partial Colexifications Improve Concept Embeddings
Arne Rubehn, Johann-Mattis List. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2025.
aclanthology.org
July 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
lingulist.de
New blog post in our CALCiP journal. Kellen Parker van Dam presents a CLDF version of legacy material on Muishaung, a Sino-Tibetan language.

doi.org/10.15475/cal...

calc.hypotheses.org/8624
Digitizing Legacy Lexical Data of Muishaung for Computer-Assisted Language Comparison
This study describes the process of digitizing legacy materials into a computer-readable format for the purposes of computational typology and computer-assisted historical reconstruction. It presents ...
calc.hypotheses.org
July 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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unipassauresearch.bsky.social
Wie schlägt sich KI gegen professorale Expertise? Die Quiz-Show unter Moderation von @sherbold.bsky.social ist nun in voller Länge online. Wer sich vorab selbst mit der KI messen möchte, kann dies per Online-Quiz tun: www.digital.uni-passau.de/beitraege/20...

#KeepCALLM #5gegenKI
Quizshow 5 gegen KI - Professorenteam tritt gegen KI an
YouTube video by Universität Passau
www.youtube.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
lingulist.de
Indeed, a lot of fun, thanks for organizing!
sherbold.bsky.social Steffen Herbold @sherbold.bsky.social · Jul 18
That was so much fun. I look forward to the video 😃
unipassauresearch.bsky.social Uni Passau Research Magazine @unipassauresearch.bsky.social · Jul 18
Wer kann besser Erbsen zählen - 🤖oder unsere Profs?
Gestern bei uns im Studio: die Quizshow #5gegenKI

Moderator @sherbold.bsky.social hat mit elf Fragen immer wieder für Überraschung gesorgt. Eine Erkenntnis: Auch KI kann faul sein.

Die Show stellen wir in Kürze online. #KeepCALLM #staytuned
July 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM
lingulist.de
Mein Blogbeitrag im Juli via @dehypotheses.bsky.social geht auf die Grundeinstellung zur Sinnhaftigkeit der eigenen Forschung bei Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften ein und berichtet ein bisschen von meinen eigenen Erfahrungen.

"Von der Einstellung"

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Von der Einstellung
Von meiner Grundeinstellung her bin ich eigentlich immer ein gut gelaunter Mensch gewesen. Es gibt Tage, an denen ich ein bisschen mies drauf bin, aber meist freue ich mich beim Aufstehen, egal wie fr...
wub.hypotheses.org
July 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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olivia.science
"The teachers say that AI applications such as chatbots are being 'hyped' and warn that they are merely products of the technology industry, which — like the tobacco and oil industries — is only interested in profit."

www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid...

Our letter: openletter.earth/open-letter-...
July 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM