New paper alert! "The Sociolinguistic Foundations of Language Modelling" Co-authored by a big team of researchers in @Eng_Lang_UoB Has now been published in @FrontiersIn AI!

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@rljfutrell Hey looks great! Looking forward to reading. Our recent paper — coming from a different perspective — may be of interest.

RT @asifa_majid: There are twin threats to psychology: the well-known HARKing (Hypothesising After the Results are Known) and the newly coi…

New tutorial paper published today with PhD student @danaroemling and @BodoWinter 'Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology' 🔓 Hope people find this useful!

RT @ClaytonHamre: In December 2023, I defended my dissertation, “A geographic analysis of lexical variation in North American English using…

@gwalkden Halliday and functionalist in general think language is mainly for thought as opposed to communication?

RT @mrkm_a: Excited to share my open-access paper published in Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (@RMALJournal)! It critically explor…

@adawan919 @SaraBartl @MatteoFuoli @jegraf1 @Weihang_Huang_ @mrkm_a @BodoWinter @X lol

RT @artsatbham: How can AI be reconfigured to avoid spreading misinformation and harmful social biases? According to a new paper from Prof…

RT @MatteoFuoli: Our position paper on the sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling is out now in Frontiers in AI!

@adawan919 @SaraBartl @MatteoFuoli @jegraf1 @Weihang_Huang_ @mrkm_a @BodoWinter I think the claim, like you're maybe saying, is essentially tautological. The point of the paper is just to make it, as nobody else has, and to consider its implications. It's not an empirical study but it's just one paper but neither are your tweets.

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Some media coverage of our new paper

RT @Daily_Express: Artificial intelligence must be made less racist and sexist, scientists say 🖊️ @hannagsslr #DailyExpress https://t.co/…

RT @mrkm_a: Excited to share that our new paper has been published in Frontiers in AI!

Please let me or my co-authors (@SaraBartl, @MatteoFuoli, @jegraf1, @Weihang_Huang_, Alex Jawerbaum, @mrkm_a, Marcus Perlman, @BodoWinter) know if you have any questions!

RT @artsatbham: ‘From Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong’ Please join us for the inaugural lecture of Pr…