Just in case you don’t know how to say cat colour and pattern in Japanese.

お正月が明けておめでとう🎊🎉

lazynlp: a library to scrape, clean, de-duplicate webpages to create massive datasets. It has instructions to download Reddit URLs, Gutenberg books, and Wikipedia. Using this library, you should be able to create text datasets >40GB. github.com/chiphuyen/lazy…

Oh my gosh! I forgot about #PiDay. Better come up with a way to celebrate at the last minute 🎉

Excited to announce this paper Austin Blodgett will present at #IWCS2019! It lays the groundwork for more straightforward CCG-based AMR parsing, without mind-numbing notation: arxiv.org/abs/1903.11770 #NLProc #CompLing

Congratulations to Lucia Donatelli, who successfully defended her dissertation on the morphosemantics of gender in #Spanish today! Hooray!! #semantics #morphology #syntax #DPs #defense

¡Felicidades! to @LuciaElizabeD, the first NERT student to defend a dissertation!

NERT D&D personas idea @EmmaSManning Nathan Schneider

The “5 second rule” states that if 5 people tie for second place in the olympics, they technically become their own country.

So I was watching courage the cowardly dog and I noticed that Eustace has a tendency to use pro-drop: “Ain’t leaving this chair”, “Ain’t getting in the water”, “Said she wanted a vacation” It sounds natural. Is pro-drop really a feature of some English dialects?

Quick semantic judgement poll. Is a tornado a cloud?

An animal shows you their belly... cat: I’m signaling that I trust you and touching my belly would be a PROFOUND violation of that trust. dog: please rub my belly (WHAT CRUEL TRICK OF NATURE DID THIS?!)

A PhD doesn't make you an expert in the future of AI. Not even a PhD in AI. Nor a successful AI company. The only thing that makes you an expert in the future of AI is communicating with robots that traveled back in time to destroy you. For my NSF proposal, I plan to

Astronomers at the Minor Planet Center have discovered a second moon (dubbed 2020 CD3) that has been circling Earth for a few years, and that has gone undetected by scientists—until now. mentalfloss.com/article/618953…

Take a look at this awesome language families poster on Etsy etsy.me/49fbDu6 ... that I made as a fun pet project and am hoping to sell to educators as an illustration of the beauty of languages used around the world.