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Nathan Schneider

@complingy.bsky.social

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Computational Linguist and Professional Nerd at Georgetown University he/him pronouns, ALL the prepositions. nathan.cl

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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Dave Barry, formal semanticist #linguistics

"...My wife knows approximately 1,700 attractive, smart, funny, middle-aged single women who would love to be in a committed relationship with a man. (I don't mean with the *same* man.) (Although at this point they might not rule it out.)"

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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 · 07/04/2024

The source. In The Real-World Linguist: Linguistic Applications in the 1980s, Peter C. Bjarkman and Victor Raskin (eds.), 1986.

[book chapter] Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence: An armchair drama in 3 acts, with a prologue and an epilogue. Sergei Nirenburg

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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 · 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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