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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Do you have an ORCID iD (unique personal identifier to attach to publications)? Every scientific author should claim one at orcid.org. Then, take 30 seconds to improve your @aclanthology.org page and prepare for new ARR requirements:

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Resurfacing here for—you guessed it—a grammar poll! Which sounds most fluent/natural to you? [1] Whomever you like can come. [2] Give it to whomever can come. [3] (they're equally OK) [4] (they're both terrible)

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georgetownlj.bsky.social @georgetownlj.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

In Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don’t Take Their Word for It, Brandon Waldon, @complingy.bsky.social, @wegotlieb.bsky.social, Amir Zeldes & @kevintobia.bsky.social outline the dangers of using LLMs as a resource for legal interpretation & suggest how to use AI responsibly.

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ACL Anthology @aclanthology.org · 26/01/2026

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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Brandon Waldon @bwal.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Currently accepting applications on a rolling basis! Postdoc in Empirical Approaches to Legal Interpretation, with a start date of Fall 2025. A great opportunity to work with the wonderful @complingy.bsky.social @kevintobia.bsky.social Details here: apply.interfolio.com/170055

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Me: English doesn't have resumptive pronouns. Also me: It says to cool on wire racks, which I don't know where they are. #syntax #RelativeClauses

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

7 Supreme Court justices: linguists may actually know something about how to interpret language? Justice Thomas: now that's crazy talk.

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Our survey highlights the enduring influence of linguistics on #NLProc. We emphasize 6 facets: Resources, Evaluation, Low-resource settings, Interpretability, Explanation, and the Study of language.

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Four (4!) postdocs, neurosci of language, Georgetown University NeurosciLang Training Program docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Garden path of the day: "Merchan wrote the Supreme Court’s ruling that Trump should receive broad immunity for official acts during his time in office did not mean the conviction should be dismissed...."

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 16/12/2024

Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

[POLL] What do you think about the grammaticality of the following sentence?: "I’m not getting as good of service out here as I thought I would." (absent a poll feature, reply with 👍 or 👎, and feel free to explain yourself)

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

It's graduate application 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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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

Today I had the honor of hooding Dr. Shira Wein (shirawein.github.io), whose Ph.D. consisted of groundbreaking #NLProc research on crosslingual meaning representation!

Nathan and Shira at graduation reception

Shira's dissertation defense - presenting a slide on Abstract Meaning Representation

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Are English synthetic comparatives (-er/-est) losing ground to analytic comparatives (more/most)? I often notice people writing "more fine-grained" whereas I would opt for "finer-grained", and just this week I've seen "more stark" and "most stark" in writing from two people who are younger than me.

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 07/04/2024

Reading some remarks on the state of AI (🧵): "Artificial intelligence is currently in vogue. It is this field that is currently entrusted with that elusive magician's wand which is supposed to help solve all the problems of knowledge, language, and universal welfare.

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 30/03/2024

*Spiderman pointing meme* INVITING PEOPLE FOR SERVICE ROLES / BEING INVITED FOR SERVICE ROLES #AcademicSky

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

Anyone know the origin of the expression "snacks on snacks on snacks"? It came up in my prepositions course when we discussed the Noun-Preposition-Noun construction.

Grocery store ad for a charcuterie board with the headline "snacks on snacks on snacks"

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

Best sentence of the Supreme Court oral argument, for obvious reasons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VpJ... "My friend relies on a claimed difference between an 'office under' and an 'officer of' the United States, but this case does not come down to mere prepositions." #SCOTUS #lingsky #prepositions

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

In the supermarket, overheard a new (to me) verb: "(I can't be) favoritizing you over everybody else." Seems like a blend of "favor X over Y" and the more specific meaning of 'play favorites'? @adelegoldberg.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social

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Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · 01/02/2024

release day release day 🥳 OLMo 1b +7b out today and 65b soon... OLMo accelerates the study of LMs. We release *everything*, from toolkit for creating data (Dolma) to train/inf code blog blog.allenai.org/olmo-open-la... olmo paper allenai.org/olmo/olmo-pa... dolma paper allenai.org/olmo/dolma-p...

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OLMo: Open Language Model

A State-Of-The-Art, Truly Open LLM and Framework

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Why does English have no transitive verb for "bid farewell to", as a counterpart to "greet"? I feel like I need a top hat and a monocle to express this concept. #lingsky

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Excerpt of my internal monologue: "Some shirts I feel better when I wear than others...ugggh it feels dirty to topicalize out of an adjunct huh...."

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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · 16/12/2023

Our YUGE consensus semantic paper is now out in the world. 50+ authors, hot tears, vicious arguments, shattered dreams -- but through the fire has emerged a glossary of terms/constructs to improve communication and promote incremental theory-building in our field. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Received a grammar question about requests like "May you update the team?" ("may" instead of "would" or "can"). Has anybody heard of this phenomenon? #lingsky

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Pictured: Penn State administrators after they decided to include 40 required evaluation criteria on the form to submit a letter of recommendation for a Ph.D. applicant. You're hilarious, dudes.

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

It's grad application season! For folks interested in North American linguistics departments with research in or adjacent to NLP, see this page: nschneid.github.io/nlp-in-ling/ Applications for Georgetown's Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics are due this Friday!

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Fellow researchers: were you mentored in how to review when you first started reviewing?

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 20/11/2023

Today in linguists are NOT KIDDING when we say that your capacity for language enables you to understand sentences that have never before been uttered in human history.

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

A doozy of a center embedding: "There's a real range of views about how expansive Congress's authority to even create the ability to go to court and sue should be understood to be." (Strict Scrutiny podcast, 10/9/23 episode at 8:19. crooked.com/podcast/not-... ) #syntax

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Attested in my internal monologue: "the only TV show I know someone who was on". That's an island violation, right (extraction from a doubly embedded relative clause)?

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Me thinking about syntax: Coordination is the WORST and should be BANNED Me writing letters of recommendation: PERSON is X, Y, and Z, managing not only to do A, but also to do B, which demonstrates their preparedness for C and D.

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

No poll feature so just reply Y/N: Do you know the expression "make one's toilet"? As in, "BRB making my toilet".* *Hypothetical example

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Haven't posted on here yet— We're hiring a junior faculty member in computational linguistics at Georgetown! 🎓😎 There's a tremendous amount of talent in the field right now, so I can't wait to read the applications. Apply by Nov. 1. DMs/email open for questions. #NLProc #CompLing

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