Resurfacing here for—you guessed it—a grammar poll! Which sounds most fluent/natural to you? [1] Whomever you like can come. [2] Give it to whomever can come. [3] (they're equally OK) [4] (they're both terrible)

In Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don’t Take Their Word for It, Brandon Waldon, @complingy.bsky.social, @wegotlieb.bsky.social, Amir Zeldes & @kevintobia.bsky.social outline the dangers of using LLMs as a resource for legal interpretation & suggest how to use AI responsibly.

Today, the ACL Anthology switched to a new system for how author pages work. From now on, ORCID iDs will be the main mechanism for matching papers to the correct author. 🧵⤵️

Currently accepting applications on a rolling basis! Postdoc in Empirical Approaches to Legal Interpretation, with a start date of Fall 2025. A great opportunity to work with the wonderful @complingy.bsky.social @kevintobia.bsky.social Details here: apply.interfolio.com/170055

Me: English doesn't have resumptive pronouns. Also me: It says to cool on wire racks, which I don't know where they are. #syntax #RelativeClauses

7 Supreme Court justices: linguists may actually know something about how to interpret language? Justice Thomas: now that's crazy talk.

Our survey highlights the enduring influence of linguistics on #NLProc. We emphasize 6 facets: Resources, Evaluation, Low-resource settings, Interpretability, Explanation, and the Study of language.

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Happy to share that our paper, "Natural Language Processing RELIES on Linguistics," will appear in Computational Linguistics! Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2405.05966

So thrilled for @grammartable.bsky.social ! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/n...

Grammar Fans Flock to a Film About Participles and Gerunds (Gift Article)

“Rebel With a Clause” celebrates the improbable cross-country journey of a woman who gently imparts grammar rules to strangers.

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📣 New Paper ⚖️🧑‍⚖️🏛️ Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don't Take Their Word for It 👩‍⚖️🏛️⚖️ with @bwal.bsky.social , @complingy.bsky.social Amir Zeldes, and @kevintobia.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Four (4!) postdocs, neurosci of language, Georgetown University NeurosciLang Training Program docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Dave Barry, formal semanticist #linguistics

A lovely obituary for Bill Labov in the Inquirer.

William Labov, ‘father of sociolinguistics’ who studied the Philadelphia accent, dies at 97

William Labov's work changed whose dialects linguists saw worthy of study and dove into the socioeconomic politics of language. He is considered the father of sociolinguistics.

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Garden path of the day: "Merchan wrote the Supreme Court’s ruling that Trump should receive broad immunity for official acts during his time in office did not mean the conviction should be dismissed...."

Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

[POLL] What do you think about the grammaticality of the following sentence?: "I’m not getting as good of service out here as I thought I would." (absent a poll feature, reply with 👍 or 👎, and feel free to explain yourself)

It's graduate application season! See below for two resources that people have found useful: - Blog post on writing a Ph.D. statement of purpose - List of many North American linguistics departments with computational/NLP research #NLProc #CompLing #phdchat

Today I had the honor of hooding Dr. Shira Wein (shirawein.github.io), whose Ph.D. consisted of groundbreaking #NLProc research on crosslingual meaning representation!

Linguistics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MDF... @lhlew.bsky.social

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Are English synthetic comparatives (-er/-est) losing ground to analytic comparatives (more/most)? I often notice people writing "more fine-grained" whereas I would opt for "finer-grained", and just this week I've seen "more stark" and "most stark" in writing from two people who are younger than me.

Reading some remarks on the state of AI (🧵): "Artificial intelligence is currently in vogue. It is this field that is currently entrusted with that elusive magician's wand which is supposed to help solve all the problems of knowledge, language, and universal welfare.

*Spiderman pointing meme* INVITING PEOPLE FOR SERVICE ROLES / BEING INVITED FOR SERVICE ROLES #AcademicSky

Anyone know the origin of the expression "snacks on snacks on snacks"? It came up in my prepositions course when we discussed the Noun-Preposition-Noun construction.

Best sentence of the Supreme Court oral argument, for obvious reasons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VpJ... "My friend relies on a claimed difference between an 'office under' and an 'officer of' the United States, but this case does not come down to mere prepositions." #SCOTUS #lingsky #prepositions

In the supermarket, overheard a new (to me) verb: "(I can't be) favoritizing you over everybody else." Seems like a blend of "favor X over Y" and the more specific meaning of 'play favorites'? @adelegoldberg.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social

release day release day 🥳 OLMo 1b +7b out today and 65b soon... OLMo accelerates the study of LMs. We release *everything*, from toolkit for creating data (Dolma) to train/inf code blog blog.allenai.org/olmo-open-la... olmo paper allenai.org/olmo/olmo-pa... dolma paper allenai.org/olmo/dolma-p...

OLMo: Open Language Model

A State-Of-The-Art, Truly Open LLM and Framework

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Why does English have no transitive verb for "bid farewell to", as a counterpart to "greet"? I feel like I need a top hat and a monocle to express this concept. #lingsky

Excerpt of my internal monologue: "Some shirts I feel better when I wear than others...ugggh it feels dirty to topicalize out of an adjunct huh...."

Our YUGE consensus semantic paper is now out in the world. 50+ authors, hot tears, vicious arguments, shattered dreams -- but through the fire has emerged a glossary of terms/constructs to improve communication and promote incremental theory-building in our field. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Received a grammar question about requests like "May you update the team?" ("may" instead of "would" or "can"). Has anybody heard of this phenomenon? #lingsky