Computational Linguist and Professional Nerd at Georgetown University he/him pronouns, ALL the prepositions @complingy@sigmoid.social @complingy.bsky.social
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"absolute two favorite artists" is an odd ordering too!
Here's what I've got for the CGEL-style tree. CC: @DailySyntaxTree
ALT syntax tree for "NEVER TOO LATE, the Elton John documentary, whom alongside Billy Joel are my absolute two favorite artists"
🤔 @arxiv
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Hypatia was brilliant and bad ass ... but she was killed, a.o., for being an independent and critical thinker.
What's new ...
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Want to get Twitter's reaction on this. Poll below.
Figure from escholarship.org/uc/item/845… by Emily Pecsok and Helena Aparicio, #CogSci2024.
ALT Experimental stimulus: an image with yellow and blue circles. Subjects were asked about the appropriateness of quantity terms "few" and "many".
OK tree-lovers, here's a fun one on a Saturday morning, from a glorious sentence by Dave Barry (@rayadverb):
"...his bed, which had been swinging wildly from a rope, entered the apartment two floors below his through what had until seconds earlier been a window."
ALT syntax tree of the quoted sentence
Take THAT, selectional preferences! (WaPo headline)
ALT "A trash can is running, and dogs are everywhere"
ok FINE i made a tree
ALT ginormous syntax tree of the quoted sentence
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Proud advisor moment #1 at #CLANAC1: @DevikaTiwari5's talk entitled "Users of Online Forums Bring Up Image Schemas and Metaphors to Explain Prepositions"!
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Finally, TODAY I got to see Aryaman Arora @aryaman2020 receive the Georgetown Computer Science Award for his tremendous accomplishments. He is now a Ph.D. student at Stanford working with @jurafsky and @ChrisGPotts. aryaman.io/
ALT Nathan + Aryaman