Nathan Schneider

Computational Linguist and Professional Nerd at Georgetown University

he/him pronouns, ALL the prepositions

@[email protected] @complingy.bsky.social

[ACL Anthology @aclanthology]

Today, the ACL Anthology switched to a new system for how author pages work. From now on, ORCID iDs will be the main mechanism for matching papers to the correct author. 🧵⤵️

[Nathan Schneider @complingy]

@haspelmath Evidence of disagreement on what to call existential-sentence BE in English: https://t.co/z1oNwdpEDO

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Terminology question for #LinguisticsTwitter: In an English existential sentence like "There is cake" or "There is cake in the kitchen", the be-verb

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@jammacleod1 Accepting applications here!: https://t.co/bCzuJ1U1lq

[James (Jamie) Macleod (@jammacleod1.bsky.social) @jammacleod1]

Rolling applications beginning this Friday, July 11:

Post Doctoral Associate - Empirical Approaches to Legal Interpretation (start date Fall 2025). Details below!

[juri @nlopitz]

Happy to share that our paper, "Natural Language Processing RELIES on Linguistics," will appear in Computational Linguistics!

Preprint: https://t.co/q4lAVB00ws

[Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox @weGotlieb]

📣 New Paper ⚖️🧑‍⚖️🏛️ Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don't Take Their Word for It 👩‍⚖️🏛️⚖️ with @BRwaldon, @complingy, Amir Zeldes, and @kevin_tobia https://t.co/7lpyPHGa0i

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@CogCompNeuro What's the difference between the Feb 17 and Feb 20 deadlines for 8-page papers?

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@yuvalmarton @DailySyntaxTree I think "whom" refers to EJ (so "whom alongside Billy Joel" can be considered the plural subject) but I'm not sure it is a syntactic modifier of EJ. It follows a comma and seems to be an elaboration/supplement.

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@yuvalmarton @DailySyntaxTree Interesting, I didn't know the term "picture noun"; it looks like it comes from Binding Theory: https://t.co/dKmeiBSvnE There are also concepts like "shell noun" and "transparent noun". Here, NP-external morphosyntax can be sensitive not just to the head noun but its dependent.

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@yuvalmarton @DailySyntaxTree I think "alongside" is being interpreted like "and" with respect to subject-verb agreement.

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@yuvalmarton "absolute two favorite artists" is an odd ordering too!

Here's what I've got for the CGEL-style tree. CC: @DailySyntaxTree

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@yuvalmarton Wow that's quite a use of "whom"! (a) It's a subject so "who" would be expected, (b) it's anaphoric to a dependent of its head rather than the head itself, (c) I would have expected singular agreement in the relative clause but it's plural.

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@linguistMasoud I'll see you there! Also have a course

[Nathan Schneider @complingy]

Ph.D. deadline is *Dec. 1*. "Current research priorities include computational psycholinguistics, computational models of discourse, and linguistics-based language modeling." Ph.D. admits are offered a full funding package.

[Nathan Schneider @complingy]

It's graduate applications season! See below for two resources that people have found useful:

- Blog post on writing a Ph.D. statement of purpose
- List of many North American linguistics departments with computational/NLP research

#NLProc #CompLing #phdchat

[Nathan Schneider @complingy]

Also note that Georgetown is accepting applications for M.S. & Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics (core faculty: Ethan Wilcox @weGotlieb, Amir Zeldes, and myself).

Announcement: https://t.co/D60AEqXBnt

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@GrammarTable @jamesshewmaker Also "watch TV"—one never "sees TV". It's almost like a compound; or we could say "to TV-watch". (Linguists call this noun incorporation.)

[Nathan Schneider @complingy]

@GrammarTable @jamesshewmaker BUT, perhaps "watch cartoons" is a collocation, and thus more idiomatic in general than "see cartoons".