Low-resource NLP and more at @IUBloomington Linguistics. Formerly @Georgetown, @CUBoulder
Joined July 2011
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Luke Gessler retweeted
Statement from Ranking Member @RepGregoryMeeks demanding answers on and the legal justification for the Trump administration’s strike on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea last week:
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23 May 2025
was once trying to explain to a layperson how an "AI launches the nukes" situation is at all possible ("but it's just a next word predictor!") and did not expect to see something like this in the real world so soon lol
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Luke Gessler retweeted
14 May 2025
RIP linguist Haj Ross (1938-2025) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R…
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3 Apr 2025
vibe coded this interactive optimizer visualization thing, still kinda buggy but not bad for an hour of telling gemini and claude to just do things! lgessler.com/files/optimizer…
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Meet Ai2 Paper Finder, an LLM-powered literature search system.
Searching for relevant work is a multi-step process that requires iteration. Paper Finder mimics this workflow — and helps researchers find more papers than ever 🔍
ALT Screenshot of the Ai2 Paper Finder interface
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25 Mar 2025
can someone pay an undergraduate summer research intern to vibe code extensions to the English Resource Grammar so we can see how long it'd take us to cover All Of English with HPSG?
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19 Mar 2025
TPOT had always reminded me of common endonyms which translate to 'true people', 'real people', 'clear speakers', 'people who can speak intelligibly', etc. This auto-deictic mode of identification works fine in traditional embodied settings, and less well in diffuse online spaces
18 Mar 2025
The concept of TPOT, my community, has been largely misused and adopted by people that are either tpot-adjacent or actual outgroup
It is time to set the record straight--
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14 Feb 2025
> Dr. Ralph L. Abraham, the Louisiana surgeon general, wrote that health officials should meet “people where they are.”
Now that's an implausible attachment in the quoted portion
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Luke Gessler retweeted
21 Jan 2025
Trump has held off on invoking the Alien Enemies Act, for now. @CNN's reporting that his team is "reviewing the applicability" of the law proved correct.
In the coming days, we need to convince Trump not to abuse this law. Call your lawmakers!! /2
cnn.com/2025/01/17/politics/…
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10 Dec 2024
A member of Mangione's extended family described a troubled childhood for the Baltimore native, recalling that even as a toddler Mangione would often gleefully sing a song about the collapse of civilization and mass extinction.
The song, "Ring Around the Rosie",
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27 Nov 2024
hilarious paper from a couple years ago showing DALL-E 2 is capable of some, uh, impressive OOD generalization arxiv.org/pdf/2208.04135
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22 Nov 2024
really wish the conferences I review for would notify everyone involved in the review process about final decisions. seems like useful feedback that would help reviewers grow
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12 Nov 2024
Presented the impossible LMs paper (aclanthology.org/2024.acl-lo…) in our seminar today and one question arose which we couldn't seem to answer: why is FullReverse not basically the same as NoReverse in Fig. 2?
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12 Nov 2024
If you asked me how hard learning English but reversed at the sentence level would be, I'd have guessed not so different, on the view that at the phrase level all those linear orders would (I think?) be attested in other NLs and therefore just as learnable. But FR is harder!
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11 Nov 2024
this is the confusion that ensues when Big Symbolic AI keeps Philosophical Investigations off the curriculum 😔
I’m staring to really dislike English as a language for reasoning in. It’s impossible to be rigorous. Every word has like 50 contextual definitions.
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Luke Gessler retweeted
29 Oct 2024
Sundar Pichai said on the earnings call today that more than 25% of all new code at Google is now generated by AI.
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29 Oct 2024
GPT-4o model card dropped on arxiv today (arxiv.org/pdf/2410.21276) and there's this curious bit about speech generation:
> Red teamers observed instances of the audio output using a non-native accent when speaking in a non-English language.
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29 Oct 2024
> This may lead to concerns of bias towards certain accents and languages, and more generally towards limitations of non-English language performance in audio outputs.
really wonder what language(s) these were
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27 Oct 2024
Are there any papers out there examining how LLMs change behavior when given the "same" prompt in two or more different scripts? MSA, for example, can be written in Arabic script or Arabizi, aka "Arabic chat alphabet", a Latin alphabet-based informal script.
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27 Oct 2024
I poked around and the closest I got is this paper showing you can jailbreak with Arabizi, which is getting at this question but in a narrower way than what I'm wondering about: arxiv.org/pdf/2406.18725
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