@complingy

Computational Linguist and Professional Nerd at Georgetown University he/him pronouns, ALL the prepositions @complingy@sigmoid.social @complingy.bsky.social

 Washington, DC
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Joined December 2018
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Nathan Schneider retweeted
ACL Anthology@aclanthologyJan 26
Today, the ACL Anthology switched to a new system for how author pages work. From now on, ORCID iDs will be the main mechanism for matching papers to the correct author. 🧵⤵️
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Replying to @haspelmath
Evidence of disagreement on what to call existential-sentence BE in English: xitter.cf/complingy/status/12592…
Nathan Schneider@complingy9 May 2020
Terminology question for #LinguisticsTwitter: In an English existential sentence like "There is cake" or "There is cake in the kitchen", the be-verb
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24%is not a copula
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94 votes • Final results
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Replying to @jammacleod1
Accepting applications here!: apply.interfolio.com/170055
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Rolling applications beginning this Friday, July 11: Post Doctoral Associate - Empirical Approaches to Legal Interpretation (start date Fall 2025). Details below!
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Nathan Schneider retweeted
juri@nlopitz11 Mar 2025
Happy to share that our paper, "Natural Language Processing RELIES on Linguistics," will appear in Computational Linguistics! Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2405.05966
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📣 New Paper ⚖️🧑‍⚖️🏛️ Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don't Take Their Word for It 👩‍⚖️🏛️⚖️ with @BRwaldon, @complingy, Amir Zeldes, and @kevin_tobia papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Replying to @CogCompNeuro
What's the difference between the Feb 17 and Feb 20 deadlines for 8-page papers?
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Replying to @yuvalmarton @DailySyntaxTree
I think "whom" refers to EJ (so "whom alongside Billy Joel" can be considered the plural subject) but I'm not sure it is a syntactic modifier of EJ. It follows a comma and seems to be an elaboration/supplement.
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Replying to @yuvalmarton @DailySyntaxTree
Interesting, I didn't know the term "picture noun"; it looks like it comes from Binding Theory: lingref.com/cpp/tls/2004/pap… There are also concepts like "shell noun" and "transparent noun". Here, NP-external morphosyntax can be sensitive not just to the head noun but its dependent.
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Replying to @yuvalmarton @DailySyntaxTree
I think "alongside" is being interpreted like "and" with respect to subject-verb agreement.
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Replying to @complingy @yuvalmarton
"absolute two favorite artists" is an odd ordering too! Here's what I've got for the CGEL-style tree. CC: @DailySyntaxTree
syntax tree for "NEVER TOO LATE, the Elton John documentary, whom alongside Billy Joel are my absolute two favorite artists"

ALT syntax tree for "NEVER TOO LATE, the Elton John documentary, whom alongside Billy Joel are my absolute two favorite artists"

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Replying to @yuvalmarton
Wow that's quite a use of "whom"! (a) It's a subject so "who" would be expected, (b) it's anaphoric to a dependent of its head rather than the head itself, (c) I would have expected singular agreement in the relative clause but it's plural.
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Replying to @linguistMasoud
I'll see you there! Also have a course
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Ph.D. deadline is *Dec. 1*. "Current research priorities include computational psycholinguistics, computational models of discourse, and linguistics-based language modeling." Ph.D. admits are offered a full funding package.
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Also note that Georgetown is accepting applications for M.S. & Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics (core faculty: Ethan Wilcox @weGotlieb, Amir Zeldes, and myself). Announcement: list.elra.info/mailman3/hype…
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CL/NLP-in-Ling list nschneid.github.io/nlp-in-li…

Computational Linguistics and NLP Research in North American Linguistics Departments

Natural Language Processing Research in North American Linguistics Departments

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General advice for a Ph.D. statement of purpose nschneid.medium.com/inside-p…

Inside Ph.D. admissions: What readers look for in a Statement of Purpose

Actually, I can’t speak for admissions committees in general — only for myself as a faculty member responsible for weighing in on graduate…

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It's graduate applications season! See below for two resources that people have found useful: - Blog post on writing a Ph.D. statement of purpose - List of many North American linguistics departments with computational/NLP research #NLProc #CompLing #phdchat
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Replying to @complingy @GrammarTable
Also "watch TV"—one never "sees TV". It's almost like a compound; or we could say "to TV-watch". (Linguists call this noun incorporation.)
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Replying to @complingy @GrammarTable
BUT, perhaps "watch cartoons" is a collocation, and thus more idiomatic in general than "see cartoons".
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