Mark Norris 🇺🇦

Linguist in industry and former Asst Professor. Tweets don't represent my employer. Tweets about linguistics, language, tennis, video games, etc. He/him 🏳️‍🌈

[Mark Norris 🇺🇦 @stipulative]

"Estonian and Finnish show that hybrid agreement is structural" is set to appear in the WCCFL 39 proceedings (assuming all goes well).

LingBuzz: https://t.co/OxBpjA3Eks
OSF (including supplemental materials w/ data on verbs): https://t.co/gufr0w46OZ

Comments welcome!

[Amy S. Thompson @TampaLinguist]

1) As @WVU_Worldlangfaculty, students’ right to quality education is always our priority, so prior to our appeal on 8/25, we sent a survey to 2,640 students who are currently enrolled in our UG classes. 1,755 answered. Full report point: https://t.co/NuXMHuTnxD 👇thread

[Mark Norris 🇺🇦 @stipulative]

I love Link's aggressive use of echo questions in TotK

NPC: We need to try to rescue Zelda from the other regions.
Link: Zelda?
NPC: Yes, somebody saw her and she flew away.
Link: Other regions?
NPC: Yes, we saw her in the other regions

[Mark Norris 🇺🇦 @stipulative]

@bronwyn It is so critical to eat the mike

[Mark Norris 🇺🇦 @stipulative]

Happy Anniversary to this performative speech act which has done NOTHING for me

[Mark Norris 🇺🇦 @stipulative]

I hereby would like last year's WCCFL proceedings to be published.

[Mark Norris 🇺🇦 @stipulative]

Hereby bumping this!!

[Mark Norris 🇺🇦 @stipulative]

Grape references: 1
People with color vision deficiency: 0

[Mark Norris 🇺🇦 @stipulative]

Absolutely obsessed with this completely non-accessible map of parking locations in Napa, CA. Which VERY similar shade of purple are you looking for?

(also get it? purple bc grapes)

[Mark Norris 🇺🇦 @stipulative]

@HadasKotek @pictureofitself Let alone the fact that we could write a program that does this... with just a look-up table...?

[Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Sword Bisexual @shengokai]

That is, people have tried refutation in print, they've tried addressing the "merits" of arguments, they've tried pointing out the harms and the bad faith of it all and still nothing changes. So the only recourse left is literally deplatforming bigots.

[Keegan Osinski 🏳️‍🌈 @keegzzz]

A yes that famous historical figure
CLSORDtRD

[Mark Norris 🇺🇦 @stipulative]

I could have said this earlier, but I'm coming to the #EACL meeting in Dubrovnik! Not presenting, just attending. My first computational linguistics conference— another first for this second phase of my career as a linguist. If you're there, say hi! 😺

[Mark Norris 🇺🇦 @stipulative]

Hey, Miranda Priestly, what's your favorite part of @Grammarly?

[Address Term Survey 2023 @DudeSurvey2023]

It's been 20 years, time for a new DUDE survey. Please share widely!
https://t.co/2Pk04IzYSM

[Mark Norris 🇺🇦 @stipulative]

I have asked it to address this problem in several different ways, and it goes "Ah hah, I see the problem. I will address this problem" and generates new code which produces exactly the same output

[Mark Norris 🇺🇦 @stipulative]

I have not really played around with GPT's coding abilities yet, but I tried it tonight. I asked it to write a function that cleans emails that have line breaks in the middle of sentences (but preserves other line breaks). Every time, it writes code that preserves all line breaks

[Mark Norris 🇺🇦 @stipulative]

Thank you, college sports, for this wonderful fragment. "Horned Frogs at Bulldogs"

[Mark Norris 🇺🇦 @stipulative]

@VerbingNouns This is the Mahowald paper I was referencing btw. it's great! https://t.co/rEwyfdyMoE

[Mark Norris 🇺🇦 @stipulative]

@VerbingNouns @gliese1337 They probably do. I came to this field after LLMs were basically already here, so I don't know much about how we got here. I'm feeling compelled by this comparison, tho— there's no way that LMs make the kinds of errors that kids make

[Mark Norris 🇺🇦 @stipulative]

@bgzimmer @WSJ One of my favorite things about "everything" is the response to the question "What kinds of bagels do you have?"

"We have plain, poppy, everything, onion, garlic, and cinnamon sugar." You have some things, everything, and some more things? 😆