Excited to join the workshop on modeling linguistic change organized at the Universität Zürich :-)

Just presented this bit at the amazing CHR conference (together with Lauren Fonteyn [email protected]). Paper available online already. Check it out!

People of the world, and specifically people who like historical texts: Enrique Manjavacas and I are finally launching the 'MacBERTh' project website, with -- and here's the cherry on the cake -- a link to the model in the Hugging Face repository! macberth.netlify.app

Pleasure to present our work on MacBERTh at the Text Mining and Retrieval Leiden research meeting together with Lauren Fonteyn [email protected] Great vibes and great feedback from the group!

Can we use pre-trained Large Language Models to study historical texts with no fine tuning? In our paper, our working group on historical texts at BigScience Research Workshop investigate zero-shot information extraction on multilingual historical texts with LLM. arxiv.org/abs/2204.05211🌸 A 🧵

This paper is the joint effort of several people working at different universities, institutes and libraries: Javier de la Rosa @[email protected] Christopher Akiki, Clémentine Fourrier 🍊, @stefan_it_, Daniel van Strien, Enrique Manjavacas. We are thankful to BigScience Research Workshop for supporting us!🌸

Accepted Papers 🎉 #ACL2022 Workshop: 🌸 Challenges & Perspectives in Creating Large Language Models Entities, Dates, and Languages: Zero-Shot on Historical Texts with T0 openreview.net/forum?id=BRzIS…

Adapting vs. Pre-training Language Models for Historical Languages by Enrique Manjavacas and Lauren Fonteyn [email protected] jdmdh.episciences.org/9690

New paper showcasing our historical language model for English on a number of tasks. Check it out! Joint work with Lauren Fonteyn [email protected]

Thanks to Lauren Fonteyn [email protected], Enrique Manjavacas and Hugging Face, working with historical language models has become just mind-bogglingly easy:

You didn't wake up this morning thinking 'I wonder who's using distributional semantic models to study historical morphosyntax' but an overview is here nonetheless. Co-authored with srbdts, who's original work is featured, and Enrique Manjavacas, and published in J Historical Syntax.

Some two months ago, GysBERT joined its historical English sibling MacBERTh (yes, both are puns on names of plays, how cultured of you to notice) on Hugging Face thanks to Enrique Manjavacas. You'll find it here: huggingface.co/emanjavacas/Gy…

I promised my co-authors Folgert Karsdorp and Enrique Manjavacas that I’d tweet about our paper at Computational Humanities Research but I forgot. Have to hurry because it’s in like 15 mins but the paper is about lexical diversity and it’s *checks notes* really good. You can read it here: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3290/short…

¡¡Salud y República!! Friday is the 92nd anniversary of the proclamation of Spain's Second Republic. We’re proud as ever that our Away shirt pays tribute to those who fought to defend democracy & we’d love to see friends & fans posting their shirts. ✊

Impressive workshop on 21st April in the Digital lab. Many thanks to Enrique Manjavacas Arevalo Enrique Manjavacas for keeping 18 participants focused on Intro. and coding Large Language Models in the Humanities for the full 3 1/2 hrs!