We had a great time yesterday listening to @davidrmortensen.bsky.social explain how The Reconstruction Will Not Be Supervised — because the Comparative Method of reconstructing the pronunciation of earlier languages can be automated using agents! Thanks for visiting, David!

🗣️We were delighted yesterday to welcome Nina Böbel to our lab for a talk on Language as a Linguistic Network. Thanks for coming and patiently teaching us about construction networks, Nina!

Hello world! We are LION(Linguistically-Oriented NLP) Lab🦁, a new research group at Leipzig University, working on interpretability and evaluation of (multilingual) language models, and the application of NLP methods to linguistics, esp. typology! lionlabnlp.github.io Meet our PhD students below🧵