I study French and other languages, and develop apps for @TheNewSchool. Author Building a Representative Theater Corpus (2019). @grievesmith @grvsmth@lingo.lol
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I'm excited to announce that I've now released LanguageLab on GitHub! If you know how to set up a Django server you can set up your own LanguageLab server. I outline the steps here:
grieve-smith.com/blog/2021/0…
#CategoryFight of the day, courtesy of @lynneguist and her talk about category fights yesterday!
(I'm a pedant AND an expert! Did you know that people can belong to multiple overlapping categories?)
ALT A white mug with the inscription "I'm not a pedant" (in sans-serif typeface) "I'm an expert" (in serif typeface)
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Thanks to @lynneguist for talking about my #CategoryFight work!
Welcome, new followers! These days I'm mostly posting on Mastodon. If you have an RSS reader, you can also follow my blog!
lingo.lol/@grvsmth
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Here are my blog posts about categorization, in reverse chronological order:
grieve-smith.com/blog/catego…
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A professor is documenting category clashes (can't read the name from the presentation, sorry!). @lynneguist
#ciep2024
Looks like the New York City Office of Emergency Management ran their flood warning script through a machine translation system, then piped the "Spanish" output through an English speech synthesizer and broadcast it through their drones!
#linguistics #MachineTranslation #NLProc
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Yes, neural nets are comically incompetent at generating language. How many examples do you have to see before you realize that they are just as incompetent in areas that are no laughing matter, and we probably shouldn't be using them in those areas?
Everybody in the earthquake zone filed a felt report, right?
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Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith retweeted
Angus/Andrea Grieve-Smith (@grvsmth) questions the expression 'living as a woman' as used in common parlance as well as in the 2023 Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation survey on #transgender identity & experience:
transblog.grieve-smith.com/2…
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Angus/Andrea Grieve-Smith (@grvsmth) reflects on the recent survey on #transgender identity done by the Washington Post & the Kaiser Family Foundation:
transblog.grieve-smith.com/2…
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The first “American Chinese food” restaurant opens in Beijing.
For Chinese like me who’ve only seen the oyster pail in TV series, the food is intriguing. For Americans in China, such Chinese takeaway may come with a sense of nostalgia. @USA_BaoziLover
Weird story in this 2016 @JBeauchampRC episode:
In 1927, 78 kids were killed in a fire in a movie theater in a suburb of Montreal. Blocked exits, bad directions.
So what did the government do? Ban children under 16 from theaters. 😒
@JessieSingerNYC
ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/pr…
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Awful pics, excellent point!
The last straw for the idea that bilingual signs are more inclusive than monolingual signs: just discovered that in Berlin flagship stores, the Nazis used bilingual signage in their 1933 boycott of Jewish businesses … 🤯
#ISB14
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I really want everyone to pivot back from video. I fucking hate video. Do not ever make me watch a video just to obtain information. Making me watch a video instead of giving me text I can read is an act of violence against me specifically. When will it end.
