Happy Mother Language Day! 🔔
For great insights into the importance of mother languages, kindly follow the live celebration at @UNESCO headquarters here: https://t.co/quu0EpwG0D
Call open! 58th Annual Conference of the British Association for Applied Linguistics invites you to share your research!
University of Glasgow 4-6th Sept 2025
Theme: Applied linguistics in the face of global challenges and local needs
More info: https://t.co/bg6d0Am2JE
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!
https://t.co/CLOFDSHWMG
https://t.co/KdHgdjbQIW
Our position paper on the sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling is out now in Frontiers in AI!
https://t.co/mDhwDhssra
We argue that sociolinguistics holds the key to understanding and improving large language models.
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I'm very excited to announce that with the new release of #LancsBox X with the Wizard Tool you will be able to run Keyword Co-occurrence Analysis on your dataset without having to know R. This new feature has been part-funded by the @LeverhulmeTrust through my ECR fellowship.
Presenting a paper on “Youth Language Practices in Africa” focusing on Ghana and Malawi.
AT THE 11TH WORLD CONGRESS OF AFRICAN LINGUISTICS (WOCAL 11)
UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, KENYA.
THEME: AFRICAN LANGUAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA
@_ElvisResCue @itsthegibson @ColinFReilly
Presenting a paper on “Youth Language Practices in Africa” focusing on Ghana and Malawi.
AT THE 11TH WORLD CONGRESS OF AFRICAN LINGUISTICS (WOCAL 11)
UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, KENYA.
THEME: AFRICAN LANGUAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA
@_ElvisResCue @itsthegibson @ColinFReilly
I'm very excited to share the pre-print for our new position paper!
The Sociolinguistics Foundations of Language Modeling
https://t.co/rkXE4h64Ur
A quick 🧵summing up our main claims...
In this paper, we argue that LLMs are inherently models of 'Varieties of Language'
We then consider how this sociolinguistic perspective can inform a range of basic problems in Language Modeling
Live on Africa’s LSP Podcast.
Discussing with the research team our study on the intersection of multilingualism, language policy, and economic opportunities in Ghana.
https://t.co/pspXmsmbk6
Full podcast:
https://t.co/5Ik9Fp5A1d
https://t.co/Q1KjARZfdG
I am delighted to announce the book launch for Language as Statecraft will take place at Leeds (hybrid) on 11/6/24! Better still, it will be part of an afternoon of thinking about English, Capitalism, and Colonialism, also featuring the great @drjohnoregan! Details below 👇👇👇
https://t.co/LonxJO2RRV The call for papers is now live for BAAL2024. Our conference theme is 'Applied linguistics in contemporary contexts: practices, approaches and future directions'. See you in Essex on 5th, 6th and 7th September. #BAAL2024#AppliedLinguistics