Marco Civico

A brilliant scholar and a critical thinker. I’m none of these things, but I’m trying.

[Economía Invisible @Econ_invisible]

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En economía, la medición de la diversidad lingüística es una cuestión relevante:
¿Qué crees que es más diverso lingüísticamente?
A) Un país con 3 lenguas.
B) Uno con 20.
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[Marco Civico @Marco_Civico]

My paper “Measuring Linguistic Diversity: Limits and Extensions of the Greenberg Index” is out in the Journal of Quantitative Linguistics. It revisits the index and proposes extensions for capturing multilingual realities.

https://t.co/gSjoSZOk2H

#Multilingualism #Diversity

[Marco Civico @Marco_Civico]

Happy to share my new article in the International Journal of Digital Humanities on how transformer models replicate writing styles across languages. Check it out: https://t.co/MQua1RD8H6

#DigitalHumanities #AI #NLP

[Dr. Michele Gazzola @MicheleGazzola1]

Ringrazio Federica Guerini e l'università di Bergamo per il gentile invito a fare una lezione alla scuola di dottorato il 25 febbraio #languagepolicy

[Marco Civico @Marco_Civico]

@JoachimSchork But the added noise might also go in the opposite direction and increase the bias, so overall everything averages out…or am I missing something? I mean, the imputation is more realistic but in no way more accurate on average.

[Dr. Michele Gazzola @MicheleGazzola1]

Funded PhD opportunity on “Language Policy and State Crime" at Ulster University, Belfast campus.
https://t.co/84aedfLCbh
Applications deadline: 24 February 2025, 04:00PM UTC
PhD Supervisors: Michele Gazzola & Kristian Lasslett #languagepolicy

[Marco Civico @Marco_Civico]

@casabasejack @jew_lyo Sono d’accordo, non avendo una padronanza dell’inglese, avrebbe fatto meglio ad esprimersi in italiano e ad avvalersi del valido sistema d’interpretazione fornito dalle istituzioni europee. Per non parlare poi del valore simbolico di sostenere la propria lingua…

[Marco Civico @Marco_Civico]

How French Intellectuals Ruined the West https://t.co/mbNgcRA7Mu

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

“…the trivialisation of autism by neurodiversity advocates comes at the expense of those at the lower end of ‘the spectrum’”

This is spot on.

Happening across the education sector. https://t.co/Z1DhpqJX0a

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

Deeply disturbed and saddened by news of the death of Alexei Navalny.

Putin fears nothing more than dissent from his own people.

A grim reminder of what Putin and his regime are all about.

Let's unite in our fight to safeguard the freedom and safety of those who dare to stand up against autocracy.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Harvard, we have a problem. By my Harvard colleague @boazbaraktcs https://t.co/hIzUBkrrBP

[Dr. Michele Gazzola @MicheleGazzola1]

The article “Emergency Language Policy: Principles and Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic” published in EYMI @BrillPublishing. Thanks to my co-authors @Marco_Civico @CeciliaGialdini @MarnochGordon, and @Economy_NI for £-support @UlsterUni. @langpolicy #LanguagePolicy, #COVID19

[Marco Civico @Marco_Civico]

@selcukorkmaz Great thread! Question about point 11: shouldn’t the sample means be normally distributed, and not the data per se? And shouldn’t this be generally the case given CLT?

[FTI_UNIGE @FTI_UNIGE]

Félicitations à Lise Volkart: 3eme prix à ma thèse en 180 secondes. BRAVO ! L'aventure continue

[Adnkronos @Adnkronos]

"L'irrazionale ha infiltrato il tessuto sociale. Per il 5,9% degli italiani il covid non esiste, il 5,8% è convinto che la terra sia piatta, e per il 19,9% il 5g è uno strumento per controllare le persone".

📊 Dal 55° Rapporto Censis sulla situazione sociale del Paese.

[Marco Civico @Marco_Civico]

@AUniversale Ha detto giusto, politi-chiant.

[Paolo Canavese @Pa_Canavese]

Yesterday, I presented a poster and a paper on clarity in legal and institutional language and translation at the Transius Conference 2022 (#TC22). I really enjoyed the stimulating discussions!

[FTI_UNIGE @FTI_UNIGE]

L'ouvrage "Advances in Interdisciplinary Language Policy" (Eds.: @GrinFrancois, László Marácz @UvA_Amsterdam et Nike Pokorn @unilj) @johnbenjamins offre un large panorama des défis de la diversité linguistique en Europe #multilinguisme #policy #mimeproject https://t.co/AFfeAgi9kv