Nice example of how important emphasis can be for language understanding. Depending on which word in the sentence below is emphasized, it completely changes its meaning.
For #LLMs (and for our #ise2024 lecture) this means that learning to understand language purely from written text is probably not an "easy" task....
This week on my podcast, I read my recent @medium column, "How To Think About #Scraping: In #privacy and #labor fights, copyright is a clumsy tool at best," which proposes ways to retain the benefits of scraping without the privacy and labor harms that sometimes accompany it:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
What are those benefits from scraping? Well, take #ComputationalLinguistics, a relatively new discipline that is producing the first accounts of how informal language works. Historically, linguists overstudied written language (because it was easy to analyze) and underanalyzed speech (because you had to record speakers and then get grad students to transcribe their dialog).
The sudden proliferation of LLMs and calling them AI is a complete and utter failure of the field of computational linguistics to explain the difference between learning how to speak a language and learning the information you might use that language to communicate.
I've been a researcher in the field of #computationallinguistics for over 15 years. Interested in #semantics, #cognitivescience, energy-efficient and ethical #AI systems. I've worked at the universities of Cambridge, Potsdam, Stuttgart and Trento, with a brief stint at Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.
I am one of the core developers of PeARS (https://pearsproject.org/), a slow but friendly open-source project aiming at developing a fully private, decentralised Web search engine.
Hi everyone! A sort of #introduction seems in order so: I'm a #ComputationalLinguistics and #NLP prof and researchwr working on minority languages and historical languages. My main and favourite activity is to make tools that benefits language communities and linguists but I really love making tools in general so I do a lot of other stuff.