Jack Grieve

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

[Jack Grieve @JWGrieve]

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

[The Veilid Terraform Guy @BaronVonLeskis]

@JWGrieve @danaroemling @BodoWinter @EDACS_UoB @artsatbham @Eng_Lang_UoB @UoBGradSchool @CCR_UoB @unibirmingham Check it out for free with a GiHub account

https://t.co/VZxdvgUFDL

[Jack Grieve @JWGrieve]

@rljfutrell Hey looks great! Looking forward to reading. Our recent paper — coming from a different perspective — may be of interest.

https://t.co/KdHgdjbiTo

[Asifa Majid @asifa_majid]

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 https://t.co/5TGdte256C

[Jack Grieve @JWGrieve]

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'

https://t.co/YC8AgKEaRL 🔓

Hope people find this useful!

[Clayton Hamre @ClaytonHamre]

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)

[Jack Grieve @JWGrieve]

@gwalkden Halliday and functionalist in general think language is mainly for thought as opposed to communication?

[Akira Murakami @mrkm_a]

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

[Jack Grieve @JWGrieve]

@adawan919 @SaraBartl @MatteoFuoli @jegraf1 @Weihang_Huang_ @mrkm_a @BodoWinter @X lol

[Jack Grieve @JWGrieve]

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

[College of Arts+Law @artsatbham]

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.

https://t.co/h451Pq6ez3

[Matteo Fuoli @MatteoFuoli]

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.

[Jack Grieve @JWGrieve]

@adawan919 @SaraBartl @MatteoFuoli @jegraf1 @Weihang_Huang_ @mrkm_a @BodoWinter I think the claim, like you're maybe saying, is essentially tautological. The point of the paper is just to make it, as nobody else has, and to consider its implications. It's not an empirical study but it's just one paper but neither are your tweets.

[Jack Grieve @JWGrieve]

@tobyordoxford https://t.co/CLOFDSHWMG

[Jack Grieve @JWGrieve]

https://t.co/XFsIY1l7dS

[Jack Grieve @JWGrieve]

Some media coverage of our new paper

https://t.co/lLiC2hv10h

[Daily Express @Daily_Express]

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

🖊️ @hannagsslr #DailyExpress
https://t.co/hkEZgpyVdV

[Akira Murakami @mrkm_a]

Excited to share that our new paper has been published in Frontiers in AI!

[Jack Grieve @JWGrieve]

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!

[Jack Grieve @JWGrieve]

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...