@JWGrieve

Professor of Corpus Linguistics. Dialectology, Authorship Analysis, Computational Sociolinguistics, Language Change

 Birmingham
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Joined December 2014
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New paper alert! "The Sociolinguistic Foundations of Language Modelling" Co-authored by a big team of researchers in @Eng_Lang_UoB Has now been published in @FrontiersIn AI! frontiersin.org/journals/art… doi.org/10.3389/frai.2024.14…

Frontiers | The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling

In this article, we introduce a sociolinguistic perspective on language modeling. We claim that language models in general are inherently modeling varieties ...

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Replying to @BaronVonLeskis @JWGrieve @danaroemling @BodoWinter @EDACS_UoB @artsatbham @Eng_Lang_UoB @CCR_UoB @unibirmingham
Check it out for free with a GiHub account labs.iximiuz.com/playgrounds…

An R Mapping Tutorial for Linguistics Playground | iximiuz Labs

Follow along with an exciting ggplot2 tutorial to map out some cool linguistic stuff!

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There are twin threats to psychology: the well-known HARKing (Hypothesising After the Results are Known) and the newly coined MASKing (Making Assumptions based on Skewed Knowledge). New paper led by @SakSGhai in @CommsPsychol nature.com/articles/s44271-0…

A manifesto for a globally diverse, equitable, and inclusive open science

Communications Psychology - Psychology must embrace more responsible practices in design, reporting, generalisation, and evaluation of research to counteract the spectre of Questionable...

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New tutorial paper published today with PhD student @danaroemling and @BodoWinter 'Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology' doi.org/10.1017/jlg.2024.11 🔓 Hope people find this useful!
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In December 2023, I defended my dissertation, “A geographic analysis of lexical variation in North American English using Reddit corpora”. It’s available to read for free on ProQuest. In this thread I’ll go over what I did and some of the most interesting things I found! (1/9)
Clayton Hamre@ClaytonHamre20 Jan 2025
So apparently people have been getting attention on here for their dissertations. Should I make a thread about my dissertation where I scraped massive amounts of text data from Reddit to gain insights about North American English dialect geography?
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Akira Murakami@mrkm_a16 Jan 2025
Excited to share my open-access paper published in Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (@RMALJournal)! It critically explores the limitations of traditional linear regression models (assuming normal error distribution) for analysing syntactic complexity measures. 1/10
Screenshot of the title page and the abstract of the paper

ALT Screenshot of the title page and the abstract of the paper

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How can AI be reconfigured to avoid spreading misinformation and harmful social biases? According to a new paper from Professor Jack Grieve and his team of linguistics researchers, the answer lies in the application of sociolinguistics. birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/u…

Understanding bias and discrimination in AI: Why sociolinguistics holds the key to a fairer world -...

Researchers have developed a framework for better understanding large language models (LLMs) by integrating principles from sociolinguistics.

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Our position paper on the sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling is out now in Frontiers in AI! frontiersin.org/journals/art… We argue that sociolinguistics holds the key to understanding and improving large language models.

Frontiers | The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling

In this article, we introduce a sociolinguistic perspective on language modeling. We claim that language models in general are inherently modeling varieties ...

frontiersin.org
Jack Grieve@JWGrieve13 Jan 2025
New paper alert! "The Sociolinguistic Foundations of Language Modelling" Co-authored by a big team of researchers in @Eng_Lang_UoB Has now been published in @FrontiersIn AI! frontiersin.org/journals/art… doi.org/10.3389/frai.2024.14…

Frontiers | The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling

In this article, we introduce a sociolinguistic perspective on language modeling. We claim that language models in general are inherently modeling varieties ...

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Some media coverage of our new paper msn.com/en-us/money/careers/…
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Artificial intelligence must be made less racist and sexist, scientists say 🖊️ @hannagsslr #DailyExpress express.co.uk/news/science/1…

Artificial intelligence must be made less racist and sexist, scientists say

Large language models that power chatbots learn from the examples they're given.

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Akira Murakami@mrkm_a13 Jan 2025
Excited to share that our new paper has been published in Frontiers in AI!
Jack Grieve@JWGrieve13 Jan 2025
New paper alert! "The Sociolinguistic Foundations of Language Modelling" Co-authored by a big team of researchers in @Eng_Lang_UoB Has now been published in @FrontiersIn AI! frontiersin.org/journals/art… doi.org/10.3389/frai.2024.14…

Frontiers | The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling

In this article, we introduce a sociolinguistic perspective on language modeling. We claim that language models in general are inherently modeling varieties ...

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In this position paper we argue that LLMs are inherently modelling what are known in sociolinguistics as "Varieties of Language" and that this insight has widespread value to the development and deployment of language models...
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Please let me or my co-authors (@SaraBartl, @MatteoFuoli, @jegraf1, @Weihang_Huang_, Alex Jawerbaum, @mrkm_a, Marcus Perlman, @BodoWinter) know if you have any questions!
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‘From Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong’ Please join us for the inaugural lecture of Professor @BodoWinter on Friday 21 February 2025 (16:00-17:00) in the Alan Walters Building, G03. Register: birmingham.ac.uk/schools/eda…
An event poster for '‘From Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong’, Professor Bodo Winter's Inaugural Lecture. The event is on Friday 21 February 2025 (16:00-17:00) in Alan Walters Building G03.

ALT An event poster for '‘From Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong’, Professor Bodo Winter's Inaugural Lecture. The event is on Friday 21 February 2025 (16:00-17:00) in Alan Walters Building G03.

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I'm shocked to see racism happening in academia again, at the best AI conference @NeurIPSConf. Targeting specific ethnic groups to describe misconduct is inappropriate and unacceptable. @NeurIPSConf must take a stand. We call on Rosalind Picard @MIT @medialab to retract and apologize for her statement.
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The MEDAL Summer School in Computational Modelling is now open for registration! This is a fantastic opportunity for burgeoning linguists to gain experience in computational modelling for the language sciences. Learn more and register: medal.ut.ee/event/medal-summ…

MEDAL Summer School in Computational Modelling - MEDAL

The 2024 MEDAL Summer School in Experimental Linguistics will take place between the 17th and 21st of June in Nijmegen.

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Jack Grieve@JWGrieve10 Dec 2024
Two new Assistant Professorships in our department Language and New Media: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/… Intercultural Communication: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/…
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Two new Assistant Professorships in our department Language and New Media: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/… Intercultural Communication: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/…
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