Stuart Shieber (@[email protected])

Harvard computer science prof interested in scholarly communication.

[Stuart Shieber (@[email protected]) @pmphlt]

If you'd like me to continue to follow you on Mastodon, make sure to put your Mastodon username in your own profile, so that tools like debirdify, twitodon, and fedifinder can do their work. 4/4

[Stuart Shieber (@[email protected]) @pmphlt]

Having a serious allergy to drama, I'm trying out Mastodon as a Twitter alternative. For any followers who would like to follow me at the new location, I've put my Mastodon username in my Twitter display name. 1/4

[Stuart Shieber (@[email protected]) @pmphlt]

What happens in the longer term is up in the air. Further action by Twitter to stop Mastodon linking and other aggressions will speed up my transition. 3/4

[Stuart Shieber (@[email protected]) @pmphlt]

Since we first distributed our #goodOA guide 10 years ago today, over 70 institutions have enacted simpatico #openaccess policies. We'd love to know ([email protected]) if it's helped you too! https://t.co/5kVJ79wLdl

h/t @petersuber

[Tom Shieber (@[email protected]) @tshieber]

@SplitSeason1981 All records pre-2023 increase in size of bases.

[Stuart Shieber (@[email protected]) @pmphlt]

Moderating principles https://t.co/t5XEj8UEoE

[Suproteem Sarkar @SuproteemSarkar]

Which patents get accepted?

How do the standards for innovation evolve over time?

What kinds of technologies turn over more quickly?

In joint work with Mirac Suzgun @lukemelas @skominers and @pmphlt, we introduce a dataset that may help address questions like these [1/n]

[James Grimmelmann @grimmelm]

I do not think it is possible to say very much with confidence about the sentience of LaMDA — or of any other computer system — on the basis of transcripts. @pmphlt’s “The Turing Test as Interactive Proof” convincingly explains why not. https://t.co/K3V5qzqix1 1/

[Stuart Shieber (@[email protected]) @pmphlt]

@srush_nlp @redpony @yoavgo …but they'd probably argue that matching up of words and corresponding letters is not a *syntactic* requirement, much as in their argument against "respectively" constructions in section 4 of <https://t.co/HchX5Hij8e>. Rather, it's a semantic or even pragmatic phenomenon. 2/2

[Stuart Shieber (@[email protected]) @pmphlt]

@srush_nlp @redpony @yoavgo I'm assuming @yoavgo is thinking of an argument that the full phrase and its acronym display a cross-serial dependency, as in the CSDDSG example? I'd defer to Pullum and Gazdar (GaP) on this, ... 1/2

[Stuart Shieber (@[email protected]) @pmphlt]

Exactly 11 years ago today I was on this trip: https://t.co/bv2bO7f3TU

#uffington #whitehorse #preservation #libraries

[@scottjshapiro.bsky.social @scottjshapiro]

If the last two years were a movie, in which scientists develop a near-perfect vaccine for a deadly plague, but half the country won't take it, you'd be like: "This is too dumb to watch."

[Yonatan Belinkov @boknilev]

The results are in this new #ACL2021NLP paper: https://t.co/vUi81oQ9mh

Hoping this encourages more work using mediation analysis to reveal internal mechanisms in language models. 4/4

[Peter Suber (@[email protected]) @petersuber]

Sometime in the last month, the guide to good practices for university #openaccess policies that I maintain with @pmphlt passed the milestone of 300,000 page views.
https://t.co/WYhXTt1QHJ

[Mark Mitchell @Mark_P_Mitchell]

@CarlosODonell That’s the most important thing I learned in college. (Unless you count meeting my wife. But we’re still married because I try to make it easy for her to give me an “A”.) Giving credit where it’s due, I learned it from @pmphlt.

[Tom Shieber (@[email protected]) @tshieber]

I've never asked for retweets before, but please retweet this in an effort to put an end to this madness: https://t.co/MLqzY2kx5y

@CNN et. al. Please. It's "MLB," not "the MLB." It stands for "Major League Baseball." No one says "The Major League Baseball is working with. . . ."

[Stuart Shieber (@[email protected]) @pmphlt]

@ThomasScialom @srush_nlp Yep. That was Alan Turing's point in his 1950 Mind paper "Computing machinery and intelligence".

[Sasha Rush @srush_nlp]

Every time someone says we are close to solving NLG they should be forced to read 5 of these summaries from Shashi Narayan's paper.

https://t.co/iavTIZZhYP