Miriam Butt

Professor of General and Computational Linguistics at Konstanz

[Miriam Butt @xenamutt]

Nice official summary of the honorary doctorate for Annie Zaenen: https://t.co/vpRzNwtWe8

[Miriam Butt @xenamutt]

An eminent linguist has left us.

[Miriam Butt @xenamutt]

https://t.co/sRo6N4N3RX

[Universität Konstanz @UniKonstanz]

Last Thursday, scientists from the #UniKonstanz Clusters of Excellence @CBehav + @EXCInequality answered questions of the @Stadt_Konstanz citizens on the big issues of our time at "Exzellenz gefragt!". The citizens' dialog was supported by forum.konstanz: https://t.co/DsnCYxsVg3

[LINGUIST List @linguistlist]

Summer Schools: Large Language Models for Linguists: A Practical Introduction: Instructor: Dr Tommi Buder-Gröndahl Dates: Thu Sept 5th & Fri Sept 6th @ 2-4 pm (Berlin, Rome, ...) for a total of 4 contact hours Location: Online (organised by LingLabs at… https://t.co/HiCFynAQLR

[SFB-TRR 161 @SfbTrr161]

Once again, the Women* in Computing Workshop has been a precious opportunity to connect over the topic of women in science. Thank you to our speakers, participants, program committee, admin team & our co-sponspors from @humaneainet for making this day such a great experience!

[Peter Colymore 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🌍 @IsarJesus]

Weil das fossile Rechts-Deutschland wieder mit der französischen Atomstrom-Keule ☢️ kommt, hier von #Habeck einfach erklärt, warum wir nicht vom 🇫🇷 Strom abhängig sind. #Habeck4Kanzler

[Miriam Butt @xenamutt]

Interesting read on how young people actually voted in the recent German and European elections. More progressive than generally reported. https://t.co/rqu2VlByZz

[Miriam Butt @xenamutt]

@gwalkden Or, using a different adjective: this is a permanent position! Working in a great environment with great people!

[Miriam Butt @xenamutt]

Learning (more) about embedding verbs these days
https://t.co/x8ywtY9XS6

[Miriam Butt @xenamutt]

Very honored to have been part of the event honoring Hans Kamp's award of the Rolf Schock Prize at the University of Stuttgart. Lovely two days of remembering, walking, talking and understanding more about Dynamic Semantics. https://t.co/EEfKYRicaD

[Miriam Butt @xenamutt]

"As universities professionalized and followed the models of German universities, academic freedom expanded to become the right of university professors to research and report their findings without restraint" (Who killed Jane Stanford, p. 94). That's the ironic bit.

[Miriam Butt @xenamutt]

Irony at several levels. Following the news in Germany about our FDP education minister trying to follow the US example of firing people for exercising their rights of academic freedom and freedom of speech. https://t.co/FMYtwBYq7f

[Miriam Butt @xenamutt]

And coming across a discussion (p.94) in parallel in "Who killed Jane Stanford?" on how Jane Stanford got a famous professor fired from Stanford in 1900 because she didn't like his opinions. The right to academic freedom has apparently been contested in the US since 1870...

[Miriam Butt @xenamutt]

Very pleased with our kick-off workshop in our DAAD Sustainable Development Goals project to develop NLP resources for South Asian languages.

[Miriam Butt @xenamutt]

@haspelmath The term converb is now applied so loosely so as to be almost completely uninformative. Clear syntactic tests as to the structure of the underlying clause are always a good idea and would have been here as well.

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@KonstanzLing @avzaagzonunaada

[Miriam Butt @xenamutt]

@gwalkden Exactly right. Or the endless anti-Islam covers Spiegel used to run.

[George Wⓐlkden @gwalkden]

What I find interesting about this is the rationale. The editors acknowledge the advantages of scholar-led diamond OA. But that wasn't the spark that lit the fire. (1/)

[Miriam Butt @xenamutt]

@gwalkden Interesting!