Raoul Schubert
@raoulschubert.bsky.social
Linguist, researcher and all around nerd (he/him)
Current main areas: Sociolinguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, computational linguistics
ENG/GER/日本語/繁體中文
Current main areas: Sociolinguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, computational linguistics
ENG/GER/日本語/繁體中文
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If you see this and you're a linguist: Say hi so I can follow you! #linguistics
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World Linguistics Day is coming up on November 26th!
Have you made any plans yet to celebrate?
lingcomm.org/2025/10/26/w...
Have you made any plans yet to celebrate?
lingcomm.org/2025/10/26/w...
World Linguistics Day
World Linguistics Day is November 26th: what are you doing to celebrate?
lingcomm.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
World Linguistics Day is coming up on November 26th!
Have you made any plans yet to celebrate?
lingcomm.org/2025/10/26/w...
Have you made any plans yet to celebrate?
lingcomm.org/2025/10/26/w...
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When I woke up today, the first thing I did was explain to one of my students what an accusativus cum infinitivo construction is
Wish I could send a screenshot of that email to my high school Latin teacher 😆
Wish I could send a screenshot of that email to my high school Latin teacher 😆
November 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
When I woke up today, the first thing I did was explain to one of my students what an accusativus cum infinitivo construction is
Wish I could send a screenshot of that email to my high school Latin teacher 😆
Wish I could send a screenshot of that email to my high school Latin teacher 😆
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When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs
December 21, 2023 at 10:09 PM
When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs
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In this week's post I make the case for an #AI #metaphor observatory tracking how we think and talk about and act on GenAI and LLMs makingsciencepublic.com/2025/11/14/m...
Making the case for an AI metaphor observatory
Between 2023 and 2025 I have written various posts on GenAI, Large Language Models and metaphors: one where I went out hunting for metaphors; one where I had a chat with ChatGTP about metaphors for…
makingsciencepublic.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 AM
In this week's post I make the case for an #AI #metaphor observatory tracking how we think and talk about and act on GenAI and LLMs makingsciencepublic.com/2025/11/14/m...
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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This new LOTM Starter Pack is slowly starting to grow. It takes some time and searching, but today, the latest additions are people who have been interviewed for the @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast.
Key takeaways: there are quite a few episodes and only some are on Bluesky, but they include:
Key takeaways: there are quite a few episodes and only some are on Bluesky, but they include:
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This new LOTM Starter Pack is slowly starting to grow. It takes some time and searching, but today, the latest additions are people who have been interviewed for the @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast.
Key takeaways: there are quite a few episodes and only some are on Bluesky, but they include:
Key takeaways: there are quite a few episodes and only some are on Bluesky, but they include:
Very happy, despite not being able to attend in person!
🏆 The ISWC 2025 Best #ORKG Comparison Award goes to:
📘 “CompoST: A Benchmark for Analyzing the Ability of LLMs To Compositionally Interpret Questions in a QALD Setting” by David Maria Schmidt, Raoul Schubert, and Philipp Cimiano
👏 Congratulations to the authors!
📘 “CompoST: A Benchmark for Analyzing the Ability of LLMs To Compositionally Interpret Questions in a QALD Setting” by David Maria Schmidt, Raoul Schubert, and Philipp Cimiano
👏 Congratulations to the authors!
November 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Very happy, despite not being able to attend in person!
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Wrap your head around this:
The loanword "Survey" in German is masculine (der Survey)
The four German synonyms given here are all feminine (die Untersuchung, die Studie, die Erhebung, die Vermessung)
The loanword "Survey" in German is masculine (der Survey)
The four German synonyms given here are all feminine (die Untersuchung, die Studie, die Erhebung, die Vermessung)
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Wrap your head around this:
The loanword "Survey" in German is masculine (der Survey)
The four German synonyms given here are all feminine (die Untersuchung, die Studie, die Erhebung, die Vermessung)
The loanword "Survey" in German is masculine (der Survey)
The four German synonyms given here are all feminine (die Untersuchung, die Studie, die Erhebung, die Vermessung)
Friend's child didn't know the word "linguist", so he called me a "languager"
I hereby gratefully accept that title 😆
I hereby gratefully accept that title 😆
November 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Friend's child didn't know the word "linguist", so he called me a "languager"
I hereby gratefully accept that title 😆
I hereby gratefully accept that title 😆
Love that they used "horseplay" on this poster at our local gym, no tomfoolery allowed!
November 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Love that they used "horseplay" on this poster at our local gym, no tomfoolery allowed!
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Very excited about having our article published in the journal Studies in Linguistics and Language Education (SLLE) 😄
September 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Very excited about having our article published in the journal Studies in Linguistics and Language Education (SLLE) 😄
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Is anyone aware of research on how character limit influences word choice on social media?
#linguistics #langsky
#linguistics #langsky
November 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Is anyone aware of research on how character limit influences word choice on social media?
#linguistics #langsky
#linguistics #langsky
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I am incredibly happy to share that our paper "CompoST: A Benchmark for Analyzing the Ability of LLMs To Compositionally Interpret Questions in a QALD Setting" has been accepted as a research track paper at ISWC @iswc-conf.bsky.social! Stay tuned for the paper and see you all in Japan!
July 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I am incredibly happy to share that our paper "CompoST: A Benchmark for Analyzing the Ability of LLMs To Compositionally Interpret Questions in a QALD Setting" has been accepted as a research track paper at ISWC @iswc-conf.bsky.social! Stay tuned for the paper and see you all in Japan!
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One of the great street names.
October 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
One of the great street names.
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The first article of our first issue is available now!
Check out Johannes Kreiselmeier's article on structural coherence and the Great Vowel Shift: srel.ub.uni-muenchen.de/index.php/srel
Talk to your students about publishing with us! 📣
Check out Johannes Kreiselmeier's article on structural coherence and the Great Vowel Shift: srel.ub.uni-muenchen.de/index.php/srel
Talk to your students about publishing with us! 📣
Student Research in English Linguistics
srel.ub.uni-muenchen.de
October 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The first article of our first issue is available now!
Check out Johannes Kreiselmeier's article on structural coherence and the Great Vowel Shift: srel.ub.uni-muenchen.de/index.php/srel
Talk to your students about publishing with us! 📣
Check out Johannes Kreiselmeier's article on structural coherence and the Great Vowel Shift: srel.ub.uni-muenchen.de/index.php/srel
Talk to your students about publishing with us! 📣
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Come on guys just use the robot, pay money to use the robot. You can trust the robot, just believe what the robot says. Nothing could go wrong, just give money to the people who make the robot work so they can fire you it'll be fine nothing could go wrong.
October 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Come on guys just use the robot, pay money to use the robot. You can trust the robot, just believe what the robot says. Nothing could go wrong, just give money to the people who make the robot work so they can fire you it'll be fine nothing could go wrong.
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Hello vision scientists & linguists! The Journal of Vision is publishing a special issue on “The Vision-Language Interface.” Send in your research about reading, perceptual learning, sign language, dyslexia, etc! jov.arvojournals.org/ss/visionlan... #neuroskyence #VisionScience #PsychSciSky
October 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Hello vision scientists & linguists! The Journal of Vision is publishing a special issue on “The Vision-Language Interface.” Send in your research about reading, perceptual learning, sign language, dyslexia, etc! jov.arvojournals.org/ss/visionlan... #neuroskyence #VisionScience #PsychSciSky
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this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
Can't even pretend to be shocked, once you noticed you couldn't unsee all the weirdly specific references to (foreign) nationalities
October 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Can't even pretend to be shocked, once you noticed you couldn't unsee all the weirdly specific references to (foreign) nationalities
The pomodoro method never let's me down when it comes to working through monotonous spreadsheet maintenance
October 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The pomodoro method never let's me down when it comes to working through monotonous spreadsheet maintenance
Sunday afternoon is glossing time
October 19, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Sunday afternoon is glossing time
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Does anyone know of good resources for conlanging? For a v. creative HS student that I'd like to help work through the process a little more methodically. I'm thinking smthg that introduces the ideas of phono inventory, typology of possible morph and syntax systems, etc. Thx! #linguistics #conlang
October 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Does anyone know of good resources for conlanging? For a v. creative HS student that I'd like to help work through the process a little more methodically. I'm thinking smthg that introduces the ideas of phono inventory, typology of possible morph and syntax systems, etc. Thx! #linguistics #conlang
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There is a local hospital system here that does a gun safety PSA with the tag line “kids are safe when a gun is locked in one” and I just want to say that it’s important to hire good copywriters
October 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
There is a local hospital system here that does a gun safety PSA with the tag line “kids are safe when a gun is locked in one” and I just want to say that it’s important to hire good copywriters