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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
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Postdoc and lecturer in corpus linguistics and project leader in the CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language" at the University of Cologne (Germany)

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Our final keynote speaker is also a doctoral researcher, Sam Boeve, presenting "From Tool to Theory: LLMs in Psycholinguistics". Sam presented three case studies, the last of which is based on his recent work on Dutch LLM's surprisal estimates in sentence […]

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Sam presenting a slide that reads: Best Dutch model • Dutch specific › Multilingual • Less parameters (smaller models) work better • Overall: gpt2-small-dutch gpt2-medium-dutch-embeddings (de Vries & Nissim, 2020)
November 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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We began day 2 of our Large Language Models (LLM) for linguistics research workshop @UniKoeln with a fascinating keynote by Charlotte Pouw on "Interpreting models for speech generation and understanding using methods from #psycholinguistics". Charlotte shared […]

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Charlotte presenting a slide with plots entitled The Role of Data Exposure Charlotte during the Q&A after her talk
November 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Oups, I nearly forgot to present our own poster... Luckily, Tiziana Ilie, M.A. student and first author on this project, did a grand job presenting our work on how DeepL deals with pronomial pickups of the hybrid noun "Mädchen". For this study, we used the […]

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Tiziana and I presenting our poster about "Genus-sexus congruence in machine translation: DeepL's pronominal resumption of 'das Mädchen'"
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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It was a busy and lively poster session with presenters ranging from M.A. students to professors (check out the full list: https://sfb1252.github.io/llm-workshop/#poster-presentations), lots of discussions on the use of #LLMs for #linguistics research fulled […]

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Tatjana and Jürgen in front of poster about "Simulating Human Judgments The Potential of LLMs in Linguistic Experiments on Prominence" Three people discussing a poster. A person presenting a poster and two people listening. Two people looking at poster, whilst holding a cup of coffee. Cup cakes in the background.
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Our second keynote speaker of the day is a Mercator Fellow of the CRC "Prominence in Language" @dingemansemark. Mark's asks "What makes LLMs so irresistible?" and begins with our ancient "amazing ability to make sense of nonsense" citing bone-throwing […]

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Mark presenting at the lectern. Mark presenting a slide with a quote: "Decisions made by the general public about emergent technologies depend much more on what that public attributes to such technologies than on what they actually are or can and cannot do" Joseph Weizenbaum Computer Power and Human Reason 1976
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Our first keynote speaker is @tschfflr from the Ruhr University Bochum. Tatjana's talk is entitled "Linguistic analysis with LLMs? The case of discourse and pragmatics" and she's brought along no fewer than three studies from her team's work on metaphor […]

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Tatjana speaking at the lectern with an opening slide featuring the image of a robot writing with a feather Tatjana presenting a slide on annotation, data and corpora.
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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But what do we mean by LLMs exactly? To ensure that everyone is on the same page, co-organiser @nilsreiter is giving a pre-workshop lecture "An Introduction to Large Language Models: LLMs 101". Attendees get introduced to important distinctions such as user […]

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Nils at the lectern presenting a slide entitled LLMs and products. It shows a diagram for research whereby a prompt is entered in a model and there is an output and a second diagram for commercial application whereby a prompt is fed into a question mark, then entered in a model, then fed through another question mark, and then there is an output.
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Today and tomorrow colleagues and I are organising a two-day workshop on the use of LLMs for linguistics research at @UniKoeln: https://sfb1252.github.io/llm-workshop/. This is largely a university-internal event and we found that there is a lot of interest […]

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Poster for the workshop: Large Language Models for linguistic analyses: applications and limitations. 24.-25.11.2025 at the University of Cologne. Invited Speakers: Ruhr University Bochum Mark Dingemanse Radboud University Nijmegen Sam Boeve University of Ghent Charlotte Pouw University of Amsterdam
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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As far as I’m concerned, the best way to spend a cold Sunday at home is to invite musician friends who enjoy sight reading from early 17th century facsimile and bake sweet things to share over tea in the breaks! 🤗

#earlymusic #baking
12 home-baked buns Early 17 century sheet music of a vocal duet for two high voices (in C1 clefs) and basso continuo
November 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Join us today 16-17:30 CET for our second session this semester on sharing #fair data with corpus linguist Lukas Sönning from the University of Bamberg. 🔅

Share a cup of tea and some biscuits with us in person @unibibkoeln or brew your own and join us via […]

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Black and white portrait of Lukas
November 20, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Hoffnung ist abgesagt. 😔
Konzertplakart mit dem Titel “Hoffnung” Duo Melodic Bassem Hawar Djoze Saad Mahmood Jawad Oud Mi, 19. Nov 25 20:00 Uhr • Aula Uni Köln Eintritt frei ABGESAGT Aula im Hauptgebäude der Uni Koin: Albertus-Magnus-Platz • S0931 Koln collegium musicum der Universität zu Köln
November 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Went on some truly magical walks around Sart in les Hautes Fagnes in #belgium this weekend! Highly recommend the region for #hiking, even with a constant drizzle. 🌦️#mosstodon #fungi
Tree trunk covered in thick green moss in a forest Close-up of a different tree trunk with some very fine light green moss and small brown mushrooms Close-up of a tree stump with Moss and small brown mushrooms
November 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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#silentsunday
November 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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#mosstodon
Moss in the foreground and trees in the background Moss and dry leaves in the foreground and a stream in the background Moss and fungi on a tree stump and a stream in the background
November 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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#fensterfreitag
First-aid of an old stone house with two windows and the ground floor and the outline of two windows on the first floor, but which have been filled up with stones
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Definitely one of the nicest pizza delivery vans I’ve seen around town! 🚲🍕 #koeln
DRANGEL RUHIG UNSER TEIG RUHT 72 STUNDEN WIR HABEN ZEIT
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Our first guest speaker this coming Thursday 13 November 16:00 CET is our Romance linguist colleague Amalia Canes-Nápoles! She will be giving insights into her attempt at making dynamic workflows reproducible.

As usual, you can join us in Cologne […]

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ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas Come and discuss Open Science practices over a cup of tea and biscuits! Thursdays 4:00-5.30 p.m. Room 4.006, USB and via Zoom
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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We have changed our meeting day to Thursdays, but are sticking to our four-o'clock-tea-time. Get those dates in your calendars and join us in person at @unibibkoeln for a real cuppa or online via Zoom for a virtual one (join the mailing list to get the links: […]

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WINTER 2025/26 SCHEDULE 13.11.2025 Reproducibility in automated corpus compilation: Challenges of dynamic workflows. Amalia Canes-Nápoles (Romance Studies, UoC) 20.11.2025 Language data publication using TROLLing. Lukas Sönning (English Linguistics, University of Bamberg) 11.12.2025 Research integrity and reproducibility in the age of generative AI. Mark Dingemanse (Language and Communication, Radboud University Nijmegen) 18.12.2025 What can we do with what data? Maryam Mohammadi (SFB 1646: Sprachliche Kreativität in der Kommunikation/Department of Linguistics, University Bielefeld) 15.01.2026 Universities and research integrity – much ado about nothing? Stephan Rixen (Institut für Staatsrecht, UoC) 22.01.2026 Quarto Workshop – Day 1 23.01.2026 Quarto Workshop – Day 2 29.01.2026 Why and how to repeat research. Lukas Röseler (Münster Center for Open Science, University of Münster) 09.–11.02.2026 Love Data Week
November 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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#reproducibilitea in the HumaniTeas is is proud to present its fourth season with an exciting programme of guest speakers and topics ranging from reproducible pipelines to data sharing, research integrity in the context of #genai and participant consent! 🌟 […]

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ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas with an image of a glass teapot and a cup of tea Come and discuss Open Science practices over a cup of tea and biscuits! Thursdays 4:00-5.30 p.m. Room 4.006, USB and via Zoom Full schedule and mailing list available at the link given in the post
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Alaaf! 🥳 The carnival season traditionally opens at 11:11 on 11/11 in Cologne. The University campus is largely cordoned off to avoid rampage so I‘m working from home today and sweetening the revision of an article with some Muuzemändelcher!

#karneval #homeoffice
Office desk with a laptop open in the background and in the full ground a small plate with two small doughnuts shaped like an almond, an open passionfruit, and a cup of tea.
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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I can't believe how well my terrible web search attempt worked: this is exactly the paper I was looking for! (I'm sorry I couldn't remember how to spell your surname @nicebread, but clearly you are first-name famous, anyway!)
Duckduck Go search for "felix big lies" showing four hits all pointing to an academic paper by Felix Schönbrodt entitled "Big little lies".
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Due to the removal of a WW2 bomb in Osnabrück, no trains are circulating from the main station today. Brompton didn’t fancy being folded into a replacement bus service so we cycled some 10 km on country lanes to the next station. On the way, Brompton decided […]

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A folding bike (Brompton) with a basket in which there is a bunch of flowers against a bench in a field with a wooden hut in the background
November 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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We closed the symposium with a panel discussion on "The future of foreign language textbooks: bringing together academics and practitioners". We are very grateful to our wonderful discussants, Valeria Crausaz-Prinz (textbook consultant and Spanish and German […]

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The four discussants and two moderators in a university seminar room with black board in the background.
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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I don't know why we thought it was a good idea ourselves, as the organisers of the symposium, the last slot of the day: We were honestly relatively brain-fried by that time, but we managed to get through our talk on "Conversational phrasemes in German EFL […]

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Anna and Elen presenting the outline of the their talk combining the Textbook English project (Elen's PhD) and the Phraseme List project (Anna's PhD).
November 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Laure Gautherot (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris) mastered the difficult after-lunch spot with a much-awaited talk on gender-inclusive language in German as a Foreign/Second Language textbooks and French curricula: "Die geschlechtergerechte Sprache in […]

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Politische Sprachregelungen in Deutschland und Frankreich LehrerInnen Lehrer: innen Lehrer _inner - Seit 2021: „Genderverbote" an Schulen Schleswig-Holstein (2021), Sachsen-Anhalt (2023), Sachsen (2023), Bayern (2024), Hessen (2024) → Genderzeichen (Binnen I, Doppelpunkt, Gendergap, Genderstern, Schrägstrich) verboten - 2021: Ministerielles Verbot der inklusiven Schreibweise (écriture inclusive) (Circulaire du 5 mai 2021 relative aux règles de féminisation dans les actes administratifs du ministère de l'Éducation Nationale de la Jeunesse et des Sports, 5 mai 2021) → Mediopunkt verboten GgS und frz. DaF-Schulbücher: Authentizität atischen Sprache, bzw. „explizite - Sprachmittel der ggs als metasprachliche Objekte" 4.2 Analyse des pädagogischen Diskurses 2025 Lexikalische Entwicklung in Fantastisch Das Nibelungenlied • der Held (-en) / die Heldin (-nen), • die Hauptfigur (-en) • der Drache (-n) • der König (-e) / die Königin (-nen) • auf die Schulter (-n) fallen • der Hof (*-e) • heiraten • jdn betrügen → der Betrug (*-e) • gegen jdn / etwas kämpfen → der Kampf (*-e) • gewinnen • vor jdm / etwas Angst haben • sich vor jdm / etwas fürchten • von jdm / etwas erzählen • jdn töten • den Schatz v • das Geheip Sorbonne Nouvelle université des cultures sonde, 2025: 86 Das Nibelungenlied • der / die Held/in • der Drache (-n) • der / die König/in • der Schatz (*-e) • die Schulter (-n) • das Blatt (*-er) • der Hof (*-e) • heiraten = zur Frau / zum Mann nehmen • die List = der Betrug • jdn betrügen • gewinnen • Angst haben • jan ausfragen - etwas herausfinden • jdn töten • den Schatz versenken • das Geheimnis (-se) Fantastisch, Terminale, 2020: 74
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM