Computational and recreational linguist • Faculty at @UManitoba and @OFAI_at • Columnist for @Babelzine

Winnipeg
Joined November 2013
Since 2021 we've partnered with #OpenSource Europe to make our finances transparent. To see a record of our income and expenditures, or make a financial contribution, please visit the #Usenet Big-8 Management Board Open Collective: opencollective.com/usenetbig…
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📝 Friday quiz! @Logological tests your Catalan chrononomy 📖 Find the answers inside the brand new Babel No52... 📚 Print & digital issues available at babelzine.co.uk
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❓ What does 'footing' mean? ⚽ or 👟 or 🏃? 🇮🇹 Test your itanglese in the new Babel with @Logological's Language Games... 🏪 Pick up issues & subscriptions at babelzine.co.uk
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Together with @katieszi and @adamegriff, Big-8 Management Board members @logological and @raynerlucas convened a panel on #Usenet as an #archive of digital discourse at #BDCAM25: big-8.org/wiki/Usenet_panel_…
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🛸 Swot up for Babel's COLOSSAL conlangs contest! 👽 In Babel No18, Deak Kirkham looks at some popular conlangs: babelzine.co.uk/images/Artic… ✍️Submit your answers at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… 🧩 Language Games by @Logological
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🏆 Win! A Babel subscription + The Babel Lexicon of Language 🕵️ Identify as many conlangs as you can in our COLOSSAL conlang contest 📮 Enter at forms.gle/StAoCUyAGBSsEBtR7 before 1 May 🧩 Language Games by @Logological
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❓ Do YOU know what these languages are? 🏆 Then enter the @Logological conlangs contest, and you could win The Babel Lexicon of Language! 🔗 Enter at forms.gle/StAoCUyAGBSsEBtR7 (see 25 March post for all pics)
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🔎 Can YOU identify these conlangs? 🤫 Don't give the answers away! Enter our COLOSSAL conlang contest by 1 May for a chance to win The Babel Lexicon of Language 🔗 Enter at forms.gle/StAoCUyAGBSsEBtR7
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🎲 Test your Attic-English translation skills! 📖 Answers in Babel No49 (Winter 2024), available at babelzine.co.uk ✍️ Language Games from @Logological
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LibreOffice doesn't do this. Enough said.
Heads up: Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out. If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.
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Are you a #TeX or #LaTeX user wondering what's happened to comp.text.tex now that #GoogleGroups has shuttered its #Usenet gateway? We give an explanation in the latest TUGboat: The Communications of the @TeXUsersGroup: tug.org/TUGboat/tb45-3/tb141…
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The “pains” of too-fast-growth—open issues from #EMNLP2024, one of the largest NLP conferences: — AI-generated reviews & papers — Authors with an extremely high number of submissions (as many as 55 in one cycle!) — Reviewers plagiarizing reviews — Public discussion of reviews
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Papers from the workshop "JOKER: Automatic Humour Analysis" have now been published in the proceedings of CLEF 2024: ofai.at/news/2024-09-19joker #NLProc #ComputationalHumour
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"The Truth About English Grammar": It's past time for me to feature Geoff Pullum's new book, The Truth About English Grammar. The publisher's blurb: Do you worry that your understanding of English grammar isn’t what it should be? It may not be your… dlvr.it/TD0BCX
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📢 Young Writers' Competition - be inspired by previous winner Niamh Mulholland! 🔗 Read at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u… 📚 Get published in Babel No50 (Spring 2025) and win a year's subscription! 📜 Rules below...
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👀 A peek inside the brand new Babel... 💾 Test yourself on tech talk with @Logological's Language Games: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u… 🛍️ Find the answers in our Autumn 2024 issue, available at babelzine.co.uk
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I have literally never heard of a “naming ceremony” in Métis culture. Ever. Not once. Not saying it didn’t happen as a part of our relations with some First Nations. But it is not a part of Métis culture. MNBC? Rocky Mountains separation from the Homeland is causing disconnect?🤔
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Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple buff.ly/3S3Tola <- an interesting analysis of where the old startup screen for basically all xNix machines came from. It comes over as affectionate but damning.
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Did you know that OFAI was founded in 1984 as a special research institution of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies (OSGK)? Our parent organization, established in 1969, recently redesigned its website: osgk.ac.at/ #Cybernetics #ArtificialIntelligence
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