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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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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@timtfj I didn't know that some parrots could do this. That's fascinating and I agree that it makes the phrase unfair to parrots.

@timtfj @dingemansemark I think the point is that parrots who repeat snippets of human language don't understand what they are saying.

@Virginicus See, e.g., https://aclanthology.org/2025.law-1.21.pdf.

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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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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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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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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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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@mattblaze Over here in Europe, most grandparents have to wait until Christmas to get security updates, the latest adblockers. 'Tis the season to block! 🔔 🤶

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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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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@hagedose68 I do not (although I must admit that I quite like Épi but as I try to avoid chains I'm hardly ever buy anything there)! There is a small bakery on the Dürener Str. called Merlet that does very good French-style bread. The croissants and other sweet things look good too but, if there […]