Computational and recreational linguist • Faculty at @UManitoba and @OFAI_at • Columnist for @Babelzine

Joined November 2013
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My lab, Computational Linguistics at Manitoba, is seeking motivated PhD students for #AI and #NLProc research in computational humour, historical born-digital #corpora, and #Indigenous language technology: clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/open-po…
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Since 2021 we've partnered with #OpenSource Europe to make our finances transparent. To see a record of our income and expenditures, or make a financial contribution, please visit the #Usenet Big-8 Management Board Open Collective: opencollective.com/usenetbig…
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Here at @UManitoba we are recruiting a Canada Impact Research Chair for #ArtificialIntelligence: viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/D… Up to $8M over 8 years $6M for infrastructure! A great opportunity to pursue high-risk, high-reward research without grant pressure. Apply by 2026-02-19.

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Are you working on #ScientificDiscovery with #LLMs? There's still one more day to submit to our IJCNLP–AACL workshop on human–LLM collaboration: sciprodllm.github.io/2025/cf… #NLProc #ArtificialIntelligence

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I'm co-editing a special issue for the European Journal of #Humour Research on humanistic or social-scientific perspectives on humour and #AI. Abstract submissions are open until 1 October: clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ejhr #humorstudies #artificialintelligence
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📝 Friday quiz! @Logological tests your Catalan chrononomy 📖 Find the answers inside the brand new Babel No52... 📚 Print & digital issues available at babelzine.co.uk
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I'm featured in a video from @umanitoba promoting studies at the Department of Computer Science: youtu.be/5vgh0IutGHk I'm still accepting graduate student applications for my research group in #AI and #NLProc!
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❓ What does 'footing' mean? ⚽ or 👟 or 🏃? 🇮🇹 Test your itanglese in the new Babel with @Logological's Language Games... 🏪 Pick up issues & subscriptions at babelzine.co.uk
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Together with @katieszi and @adamegriff, Big-8 Management Board members @logological and @raynerlucas convened a panel on #Usenet as an #archive of digital discourse at #BDCAM25: big-8.org/wiki/Usenet_panel_…
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🛸 Swot up for Babel's COLOSSAL conlangs contest! 👽 In Babel No18, Deak Kirkham looks at some popular conlangs: babelzine.co.uk/images/Artic… ✍️Submit your answers at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… 🧩 Language Games by @Logological
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🏆 Win! A Babel subscription The Babel Lexicon of Language 🕵️ Identify as many conlangs as you can in our COLOSSAL conlang contest 📮 Enter at forms.gle/StAoCUyAGBSsEBtR7 before 1 May 🧩 Language Games by @Logological
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❓ Do YOU know what these languages are? 🏆 Then enter the @Logological conlangs contest, and you could win The Babel Lexicon of Language! 🔗 Enter at forms.gle/StAoCUyAGBSsEBtR7 (see 25 March post for all pics)
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🔎 Can YOU identify these conlangs? 🤫 Don't give the answers away! Enter our COLOSSAL conlang contest by 1 May for a chance to win The Babel Lexicon of Language 🔗 Enter at forms.gle/StAoCUyAGBSsEBtR7
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I'm on Austrian public radio again, this time discussing PunCAT, a computer-assisted #translation tool for #humour. The show is available online at sound.orf.at/radio/oe1/sendu… and my segment starts at about 12 minutes and 35 seconds in.

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A reminder that I'm still accepting queries from prospective PhD students for Fall 2025! If you're interested in #CompLing or #NLProc for humour, historical online corpora, or #Indigenous languages, please get in touch! clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/open-po…
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Come join us at @umanitoba! My Department has open positions for two Assistant or Associate Professors of #ComputerScience: universityaffairs.ca/search-…
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🎲 Test your Attic-English translation skills! 📖 Answers in Babel No49 (Winter 2024), available at babelzine.co.uk ✍️ Language Games from @Logological
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LibreOffice doesn't do this. Enough said.
Heads up: Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out. If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.
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From reddit.com/r/Professors/comm…: "University Presses > Routledge > = (a bunch of specialty presses like Polity/ Brill) > Taylor Francis> Springer >>>>>>>> World scientific." I'd come up with a similar mental ranking. How do you rank #academic book #publishers in your field?
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Are you a #TeX or #LaTeX user wondering what's happened to comp.text.tex now that #GoogleGroups has shuttered its #Usenet gateway? We give an explanation in the latest TUGboat: The Communications of the @TeXUsersGroup: tug.org/TUGboat/tb45-3/tb141…
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