tschfflr, 9 months ago to linguistics

🤩 It’s getting real! 🤩 Sinn und Bedeutung, Europe’s largest conference on #semantics , is starting tomorrow with a special session on multimodal communication! #sub #sub28 #bochum #linguistics #philosophy

lazyq2, 9 months ago to webdev

Anyone else feels #html heading ranks (h1 to h6) are meant for documents like MS Word documents/essays and that the HTML spec should have a generic <caption>/<legend> element for UI components like product lists, widgets, article lists, etc.?

In my interpretation <ol><li><a><article><h1>(product name... is the correct structure for a list of product thumbnails #semantics wise, but I doubt this is right for #accessibility in practice. #webdev

thomasapowell, 9 months ago to webdev

I should have put this one in a slide for my class since they often are triggered about how I get about the chronic <div>-itis plaguing web dev. It’s not just my opinion, it's in the spec! (https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/grouping-content.html#the-div-element)

#HTML #Divitis #Semantics #a11y

abcdw, 10 months ago to Lisp

If you are into programming languages, learning Ocaml (or other ML dialect like StandardML) makes a lot of sense, it's helpful for reading papers, watching conference talks, understanding basics of type theory, going through PL courses and all other fancy stuff.

Here is a good introductionary course on OCaml and functional programming:

https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLre5AT9JnKShBOPeuiD9b-I4XROIJhkIU

#ocaml #pl #lisp #fp #functionalprogramming #types #typetheory #semantics

AuroraNebulosa, 10 months ago to ChatGPT

Love to discover new #uses for #chatGPT! Just used it to aid in my #Italian #language #learning! Asked first to distinguish one similar word’s meaning from another, then, for an intro Italian #semantics #book #recommendation. #autodidacticism

micheleann, 10 months ago to random

Things that have come up at work recently:

"Is death a condition?"
"What is broader than civet cats?"
"What is a mosquito when it's not being a vector of infection?"
"Can a newborn be an audience? What about an outdoor farmers market?"
"Are 'wildlife photo opportunities' a 'place' "?
"How big does something have to be before it's zoonotic and not just a "Parasitic arthropod"?"

#taxonomy #arguing #semantics

persagen, 11 months ago to random

Emergent properties of Large Language Models (LLM)

The Unpredictable Abilities Emerging From Large AI Models
Large language models like ChatGPT are big enough that they're displing startling, unpredictable behaviors
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-unpredictable-abilities-emerging-from-large-ai-models-20230316
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35195106

Researchers at Google Brain showed how a model prompted to explain itself (a capacity called chain-of-thought reasoning) could correctly solve a math word problem, while the same model without that prompt could not.
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markwyner, 11 months ago to languagelearning

Little grammar tip for y’all…

Use “furthermore” to add to a point you’re making. Use “moreover” to move on to a new point that’s related.

Example:
I love Envy apples because they’re sweet and crispy. Furthermore, they are slightly tart. Moreover, they pair well with peanut butter.

Furthermore adds to the list. Moreover adds a reason of a different kind.

They’re interchangeable as a colloquialism. But formally, this is their difference.

#Grammar #Tips #Language #Semantics #TheMoreYouKnow

SteveFaulkner, 11 months ago to webdev

Subheadings, subtitles, alternative titles and taglines in HTML

“Until recently there was no dedicated method in HTML to identify content as a subheading, subtitle, alternative title or tagline. Now there is.”

#HTML #accessibility #semantics #WebStandards #WebDev

https://www.tpgi.com/subheadings-subtitles-alternative-titles-and-taglines-in-html/

grvsmth, 11 months ago to linguistics

I went to the market, and they had those corn chips
#linguistics #semantics #ReservedWords

demeco_project, 1 year ago to random German

Gestern Höhe Magdeburg eine linguistisch sehr befriedigende Bahnansage: "In dieser Zeit können sie sich außerhalb des Zuges aufhalten, aber nicht großartig den Bereich verlassen."
Erstmal: "großartig" als Modifikator von "den Bereich verlassen", was zu einer "nicht zu weit entfernen" Lesart führt.
Und zweitens: welcher Bereich? Und was ist der Bereich des Zuges wenn man außerhalb des Zuges ist eigentlich genau?
Ich bin sicherheitshalber lieber sitzengeblieben, ging auch trotz angeblicher Reperatur am Triebwagen nach nur 10 Minuten dann doch weiter.
#BahnAnsagen #Pragmatics #Semantics #German

nielspflaeging, 1 year ago to random

Autopoiesis. A beautiful word.
And an utterly superfluous one.
You cannot do anything useful with it.
The word "living" is entirely sufficient. So forget about autopoiesis and work on living systems, making them "even more alive!"
#systemsthinking #systemstheory #systems #betacodex #autopoiesis

minimalparts, 1 year ago to ai

#introduction 🙂

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.