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Laurie Burchell
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Senior Research Engineer with the Common Crawl Foundation.
(languages ∪ tech) in Dùn Èideann
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Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social · Mar 17
I'm part of this! There's also a paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.10267
bazril.bsky.social Barry Haddow @bazril.bsky.social · Feb 28
** New parallel data set ** . We've just released HPLT v2.0, a parallel data set of 50 languages paired with English, 380M sentence pairs in total. Extracted from the Internet Archive and Common Crawl hplt-project.org/datasets/v2.0
HPLT - High Performance Language Technologies
A space that combines petabytes of natural language data with large-scale model training
hplt-project.org
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jgibristol.bsky.social
A huge thank you to @very-laurie.bsky.social for delivering a fantastic UoB Turing seminar. Her talk was entitled “Common Crawl: open web data for everybody.”

In this talk, she introduced the @commoncrawl.bsky.social and the data products they offer.
Laurie Burchell at a lectern presenting her Turing Seminar talk Laurie Burchell at a lectern, with a blackboard behind her, presenting her Turing Seminar talk
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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jgibristol.bsky.social
The Turing Liaison Team is excited to host @very-laurie.bsky.social and Thom Vaughan to introduce the @commoncrawl.bsky.social and the data products it offers.

📆 26 November
⏰ 13:00 - 14:00
📍C44 Biomedical building, University of Bristol

Find out more: tinyurl.com/mrxp5h2n
Turing Seminar event graphic with details of the event and headshots of Laurie Burchell and Thom Vaughan to the right
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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wmdqs.bsky.social
If you were able to join us, let us know about your experience: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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catherinearnett.bsky.social
One of the biggest obstacles to improving language technologies for low-resource languages is the lack of data. To address this, we need better language identification tools. So, we're organizing a shared task on Language Identification for Web Data! #NLP #NLProc
June 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
very-laurie.bsky.social
I've been learning by writing the tutorials 💅

Next up: using CCF's host index commoncrawl.org/blog/introdu...
June 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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farleigh.bsky.social
This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵
Person dressed as a knight with a trans flag and a cape with a trans flag shield that says “Trans Knights are human Knights”
June 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
A six panel cartoon. Panel one: Title: Learn to read with Physics Lesson One: two and three-letter words (image of a smiling book and particle) Panel two: A friendly scientist enters a colourful lab carryinh a coiffee and papers. Text: The Doc is in the lab. Panel three: She has put on eye protectors and started a machine Text: She put on the ion ray. Panel four: The machine has caused a small fire. She looks aghast. Text: Pop! The ray lit the gas. Panel five: She runs from the burning lab Text: The lab is too hot! Panel six: She sits on the grass. In the background the ruins of the lab smoulder. Text: The Doc is sad.
June 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM
very-laurie.bsky.social
✨Call for papers!✨ @commoncrawl.bsky.social and friends are organising the 1st Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals, held in tandem with @colmweb.org. Submit your research on multilingual data quality!

Submission deadline is 23 June, more info: wmdqs.org
1st Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals
wmdqs.org
May 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
very-laurie.bsky.social
I'm starting as a Senior Research Engineer with the Common Crawl Foundation today! 😎
May 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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sparrowgg.bsky.social
#Gaelic
#Hobbit
#Ghàidhlig

EEEEEEEEEE!

www.gaelicbooks.org/explore-the-...
A' Hobat - Gaelic Books Council
A Gaelic translation of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, a tale of an unlikely hobbit who goes on an unexpected journey in the company of the wizard Gandalf.
www.gaelicbooks.org
April 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
There's a lot of talk about Canada Geese and whether they're good and my answer is Yes.
A comic called "how to draw goose neck". In panel 1 the goose's neck is very short and is labeled "no". In panel 3 the goose's neck is the right size and is labeled "yes". In panel 3 the goose's neck is longer and is labeled "no". In panel 4 the goose's neck is extremely long and terrifyingly snakelike and it's labeled "yessss". A comic called The Canada Goose: A Role Model For Our Time. In panel 1, the goose is labeled "assertive" and is hissing furiously. In panel 2 it's "brave" and is standing up to a fearsome swan. In panel 3 it's "good parent" and is standing up to a dog while protecting its goslings. In panel 3 it's "team player" and is flying in a beautiful V. In panel 5 there's a close up of its head and it's labeled "crisp, modern aesthetic". In panel 6 it's eating grass and pooping and labeled "high fiber diet".
April 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
very-laurie.bsky.social
I'm part of this! There's also a paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.10267
bazril.bsky.social Barry Haddow @bazril.bsky.social · Feb 28
** New parallel data set ** . We've just released HPLT v2.0, a parallel data set of 50 languages paired with English, 380M sentence pairs in total. Extracted from the Internet Archive and Common Crawl hplt-project.org/datasets/v2.0
HPLT - High Performance Language Technologies
A space that combines petabytes of natural language data with large-scale model training
hplt-project.org
March 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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themerl.bsky.social
A photograph of Keir Starmer, saying 'there's a famous slogan in the United Kingdom', above a quote post of our absolute unit (a very big sheep labelled 'look at this absolute unit').
February 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
very-laurie.bsky.social
I'm nerd famous
a screenshot of the top-ten most downloaded models on Hugging Face
February 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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jonathanmccrea.bsky.social
Jesus. Twister in Donegal right now.
January 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
very-laurie.bsky.social
My replacement PIR finally arrived! Hoping it doesn't short this time 🙏
January 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
very-laurie.bsky.social
I'm pretty sure that recursion is magic.
January 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
very-laurie.bsky.social
Day 7 of Codemas has a motion sensor! thepihut.com/blogs/raspbe...
Maker Advent Calendar Day #7: Monitoring Motion!
Welcome to day seven of your 12 Projects of Codemas Advent Calendar. Today we're going to be using a sensor that detects motion, allowing our Pico to react to things like people and animals when they ...
thepihut.com
December 30, 2024 at 3:36 PM
very-laurie.bsky.social
It's day 6 of Codemas! As befits the season, I'm coding on the kitchen table surrounded by leftovers.
December 27, 2024 at 9:42 AM
very-laurie.bsky.social
Merry Christmas! The house is quiet for a minute so I'm doing box 5 of Codemas. Maybe I'll finish the whole thing before the new year
December 25, 2024 at 11:20 AM
very-laurie.bsky.social
Uh I have something I need to tell you
December 4, 2024 at 2:34 PM
very-laurie.bsky.social
I'll return to Codemas after nearly a year, I'll bully this old Chromebook into installing an IDE and finally seeing the Pico, I'll do what I want
A Raspberry Pi plugged into a Chromebook. One LED is lit
November 24, 2024 at 7:16 PM
very-laurie.bsky.social
Zoom zoom fully graduated Dr coming through
A person in doctoral robes walks away from the camera
November 21, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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themerl.bsky.social
unlike you i get my news from a reliable source
A collection of issues of journals belonging to the Poultry Club of Great Britain, a leading organisation for poultry matters.
November 11, 2024 at 12:24 PM