New doctor alert 📣 Congratulations Dr. Tanguy Dubois on passing your oral defense. Dissertation on probabilistic grammars for learners. A great supervisory collaboration between our Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and @MagaliPaquot from @cecl_UCL

Just talked about prototypicality effects for Mandarin #ABB words at this year's #IcoSem Work with Xiaoyu Yu, Tungle Pan, and Youngah Do. #IcoSem2023

Last Friday @steffenhoeder gave a talk on #DiasystematicConstructionGrammar at our #QLVLColloquium! Thanks for integrating language contact into #CxG

Curious about how lexical semantics can improve prediction in alternation models using distributional semantics techniques? If yes, I'm thrilled to tell you more about it during our presentation at ICAME45 in the beautiful Vigo w/ Benedikt Szmrecsanyi! QLVL

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Last week in our #QLVLColloquium, the delightful Kaleigh Woolford Kaleigh Woolford gave a talk about #Prototype effects and #VectorSpaceModels Featuring many nice network diagrams~ #DistributionalSemantics

Our very own Anthe Sevenants Anthe Sevenants - @anthe.sevenants.net published an article about the non-standard form for saying "you are" in Dutch, "gij bent", a conflation between formal "jij bent" and dialectal "gij zijt" that has #Noorderkempen as its epicenter.

Today we welcomed Youngah Do (HKU) at our #QLVLColloquium and were introduced to exciting upcoming work on the pattern-based acquisition of phonology through neural models.

"Onomatopoeia in the world's languages: A comparative handbook" edited by Lívia Körtvélyessy and Pavol Štekauer came out. Chapter with a sketch on onomatopoeia in Mandarin Chinese by Thomas Van Hoey @simazhi (that's me) degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Our very own Enzo Santilli delivering his maxi presentation about #ItalianoPopolare His future dissertation will surely prove popular

Today Nathalie Dion @Nath_Dion gave a fabulous talk on five measures for looking at language change in #CanadianFrench #sociolonguistics #variationist #socioling (The colors were less extravagant on the computer 😂)

New publication alert 📣 "What ratings and corpus data reveal about the vividness of Mandarin #ABB words" Work with Xiaoyu Yu, Tung-Le Pan, and Youngah Do doi: 10.1017/langcog.2024.22 #OpenAccess bit.ly/4bdLnkN

Super interesting session on managing your academic profile by Chiara Paolini at #HDYDI How do you do (it) 2024

Our own Dirk Geeraerts evaluating the influence of Firth and Harris had on #DistributionalSemantics at ESSLLI #ESSLLI2024 You shall know a linguist by the company he keeps 😉

Our own Sumin Guan presenting about the long passive marker in Mainland vs Taiwanese Mandarin at #ICL2024 21st International Congress of Linguists

Conditional inference tree, random forest, and logistic regression, to test hypotheses on verbal morphology in Middle Dutch.

Putting the QL in #QLVL

New semester, new #QLVLColloquium Today the wonderful DrAndreeaCalude shared with us a number of wonderful studies based on #SocialMedia language usage. We’re all #wokeaf now wrt the usage of hashtag usage. #interestingaf #MaoriAorOpossession

Elastic Net to catch the vicious demon of semantics, in the colosseum of distributional semantics ! Our new article, with lead author Anthe Sevenants - @anthe.sevenants.net Read on: degruyter.com/document/doi/1… De Gruyter Brill ➡️ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social