@dbat That's a good question, too, that I cannot readily answer.
I started studying #ComputationalLinguistics (#CompLing) in 2018, way before that whole #AI thing overtook the entire field and reduced all of our previous work to irrelevancy (which I am very angry about).
My degree is where I got most of my knowledge about the technology from – our field outright invented LLMs, and I work on language-related machine learning, too.
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@bpaassen For what it's worth, it's something that even a lot of us students are concerned about, at least among my local #CompLing peers.
We keep reading statements in "reputable" publishings that even to our Bachelor's degree eyes are clearly unsourced conjecture and scientifically speaking utter nonsense.
Offensively unsourced sentences like "over the last years, LLMs have developed a deep and intuitive understanding of human culture" really make me worried for the future of our field.
Hey there!
I'm #newHere at the Localization Café. 
I have been working as a freelancer for some time, translating and localising what mostly ends up being #videoGames. My language pair is #English and #German.
Outside my #freelancing work, I am a #linguistics and #compLing student who is currently finishing up my dual degree.
In the future I would like to work as an in-house localisation worker in the #gaming industry; fingers crossed, since #gamedev is a difficult field to get into! :)
Hallo liebe Mit-Studierende!
Das #Sommersemester 2025 hat fast begonnen und das heißt natürlich auch, dass wir als Fachschaft #Computerlinguistik uns an die Arbeit machen, Euch bestmöglich zu vertreten!
Aufgrund der Sanierungsarbeiten an der #UniBielefeld fällt unser üblicher Treffpunkt leider weg.
Wir halten Euch über unsere öffentlichen Freitagstreffen auf dem Laufenden!
I entered the #ComputationalLinguistics field in 2018 by enrolling for a Bachelor's degree.
Since then, a lot has changed. Almost all the things we learned about, programmed in practice and did research on are now nearly irrelevant in our day-to-day.
Everything is #LLMs now. Every paper, every course, every student project.
And the newly enrolled students changed, too. They're no longer language nerds, they're #AI bros.
I miss #CompLing before ChatGPT.
Studierst Du #Computerlinguistik in #Bielefeld und arbeitest an spannenden Programmier-Projekten, Hausarbeiten, Papers o. Ä.?
Die Fachschaft #CompLing möchte Euch die Möglichkeit geben, eure Arbeit vorzustellen; ganz egal in welchem Semester ihr seid oder wie komplex euer Projekt ist. :) Sammelt Feedback, Kontakte und die Erfahrung, Forschung zu kommunizieren.
Interesse an einem solchen "studentischen Kolloquium"? Dann schreibt uns bitte eine E-Mail. :)
#Linguistik #UniBielefeld #Wissenschaft
Hallo!
Wir sind die #Fachschaft #Computerlinguistik an der #UniBielefeld!
Als Vertretung für all diejenigen, die bei uns #CompLing studieren, helfen wir bei studienrelevanten Problemen und vermitteln mit dem Lehrpersonal, veranstalten fachbezogene und sonstige Events, und sorgen natürlich auch für eine alternative Freizeitgestaltung. :)
Ab jetzt exklusiv #neuhier auf Mastodon.
A reminder that I'm still accepting queries from prospective PhD students for Fall 2025! If you're interested in #CompLing or #NLProc for humour, historical online corpora, or #Indigenous languages, please get in touch! https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/open-positions
I can't help but feel dirty when attending my #compling classes.
We're enthusiastically toying with LLMs and text-to-image generators from an excited, academic standpoint. The technology is REALLY impressive and my linguist heart is blooming.
I obviously keep having to think about the environmental and social impact of so-called "AI". I am in academia, not some corporation. Am I a bad person for studying this?
#CfP LaTeCH-CLfL 2024: The 8th Joint #SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural
Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature to be held in March 2024 in conjunction with EACL 2024 https://2024.eacl.org/ in Malta.
Mike Amundsen: Hypermedia & Professional Music - The Compiling Podcast! With Rob Z. and Friends https://compiling.publicgeeking.com/episodes/mike-amundsen/
enjoyed joining #RobZazueta for his #Compling podcast.
he's the first person to get me to talk at length about my "other career" before tech!
Tomorrow (June 1) at 17.00 CET @RSprugnoli will hold a workshop "Introduzione al Natural Language Processing" within the series "Aspettando #aiucd2023" (also online; in Italian) http://www.aiucd2023.unisi.it/workshop/
#digitalhumanities #NLP #naturallanguageprocessing #CompLing
When I started in #ComputationalLinguistics / #NLProc, some of the stuff with word embeddings and topic modeling felt like kind of a stretch re: what we could do with language models, but at least the formalisms were interesting and it felt like there was an effort to treat it as exploratory and not "hey language models understand language!" Now it feels like the field has been co-opted by all the #MathyMaths and #TESCREAL bullshit, and I so desperately want to get back to real #CompLing
Calling all prospective CLMS students -- info session coming up!
Join CLMS faculty for an info session webinar Friday January 27, 12:30am-1:30pm (Pacific Time). Info & RSVP here:
An #introduction to you lovely people here in #mastodon is long overdue now:
I'm currently a #PhD candidate, research assistant, and associate lecturer at #LancasterUniversity.
I love all things #corpuslinguistics, #stats, and interpretable #CompLing.
I'm passionate about developing new, explainable methodologies and workflows so we can analyse (existing) linguistic data in new ways and further our understanding of language 
and the mind 
As an #introduction :)
I'm a librarian/professor and I work in computational linguistics #compling, law, and #infosec
I play #accordion 
as what capitalism was https://what-capitalism-was.bandcamp.com/
#Introduction with #Hashtags
#Hi, I work on #ComputationalLinguistics (#CompLing): I develop models of human #LanguageLearning and #LanguageUse, and I test them on #RealWorldData. One focus of my work has been on #Lexical #Semantics, looking at how a word's #Meaning can be learnt from #Context, and indeed what kind of #MeaningRepresentation to use in the first place. This work is #Interdisciplinary, drawing on #Linguistics #PhilosophyOfLanguage #CognitiveScience #MachineLearning
Mike Amundsen 
