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Nathan Schneider

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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 · 13/09/2026
P.S. If you have a Softconf/START account for submissions to LREC and some other NLP venues, you can provide your ORCID there too under Global User Info > Update Profile!
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
FYI, a few days ago the ACL announced a new Sustainable Reviewing Policy. It includes the ORCID requirement: www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/im... bsky.app/profile/aclm...
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
3. Click the "Edit Profile" button at the top of the page. 4. Click "Personal Links". 5. Paste in your ORCID URL (e.g. orcid.org/0000-0002-59...) (note: no "myorcid"). 6. Click "Save Profile Changes" at the bottom of the screen.
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
1. Log into OpenReview and go to your profile page (e.g. openreview.net/profile?id=%...). 2. Look for "ORCID" under Personal Links. If the link is correct, you're all set! Otherwise....
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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 · 14/06/2025
Saturday morning, feeling too lazy to produce even a schwa
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
'nɑnbənt̩
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
rabbinate nonbinate?
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Can't access today. :(
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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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Marina Epelman @marinaepelman.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
So thrilled for @grammartable.bsky.social ! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/n...
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Grammar Fans Flock to a Film About Participles and Gerunds (Gift Article)
“Rebel With a Clause” celebrates the improbable cross-country journey of a woman who gently imparts grammar rules to strangers.
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Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox @wegotlieb.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
📣 New Paper ⚖️🧑‍⚖️🏛️ Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don't Take Their Word for It 👩‍⚖️🏛️⚖️ with @bwal.bsky.social , @complingy.bsky.social Amir Zeldes, and @kevintobia.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don't Take Their Word for It
<p><span>Recent breakthroughs in statistical language modeling have impacted countless domains, including the law. Chatbot applications such as ChatGPT, Claude,
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Reminds me of "at cost"
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Well my understanding is that indexing matters for evaluating research in many institutions in Europe and Asia. There may be problems with the metrics, but one has to consider whether foregoing indexing will put researchers at a disadvantage relative to researchers in other fields.
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
At least, the ones that have to advertise this because nobody has heard of them are probably shady!
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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 · 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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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
A lovely obituary for Bill Labov in the Inquirer.
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William Labov, ‘father of sociolinguistics’ who studied the Philadelphia accent, dies at 97
William Labov's work changed whose dialects linguists saw worthy of study and dove into the socioeconomic politics of language. He is considered the father of sociolinguistics.
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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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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Definitely use software that sends a reminder to subscribers on the first of every month, those are super helpful.
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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 · 14/12/2024
CC: @grammartable.bsky.social
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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 · 10/12/2024
Recently discovered this for taking out the trash!
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
How was this not a part of my postdoc?!
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Of course, when evaluating a paper about a resource, there are many things to look for beyond trivial novelty (is the resource new). COLING 2018 had a separate set of questions for resource papers: coling2018.org/paper-types/
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Paper types | COLING 2018
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Practical technology is one possible motivation (whether a new specialized system or evaluation of a more general system). I also tend to think that creation of novel resources—especially if there is a systematic annotation effort—reveals something about how that language works.
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Yeah, I think it's basically what Fillmore (1985) dubs "the semantics of understanding", which he contrasts with truth-conditional semantics. people.cs.georgetown.edu/nschneid/cos...
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Now my impression is that the formal semanticists have walled off referential meaning and said that's pragmatics, not semantics. Which is convenient for certain theories (and all theories make idealizations), but misses a big part of the inferences people actually make when they encounter language.
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Does it mean if all the buildings & people of Paris were the same but located in e.g. Germany? What language would they speak? Would there be croissants? It's an odder (or more interpretively demanding) counterfactual than "If I hadn't forgotten my umbrella today, I wouldn't have gotten rained on."
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
What does "If Paris weren't in France" actually mean to people, though? It's the sort of counterfactual that is hard to reason about out of context, because much of what we know about Paris is tied to its location in France.
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Sure...just as 'Paris' is interpreted by default as denoting a place in France. ('If Paris were not in France' is a weird hypothetical.)
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Well our default interpretation of "queen" makes it hard to imagine the first condition being true in the first place. But supposing this was a statement about (say) drag queens and there was a law on the books making it clear they could not be monarchs, it is perfectly comprehensible.
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
OK but to play devil's advocate, a counterargument is that if you are allowed to alter extensional meaning (Paris not in France), you should be allowed to alter intensional meaning ("X is a robin" does not entail "X is a bird" because you could define "robin" as a type of fish).
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Because it draws on extensional meaning? Seems like entailment as defined by NLI (which is looser than formal semantics entailment).
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
It's not very long in this context though, maybe more like [e].
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
AFAICT this is the only notable thing about my accent relative to vanilla American.
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Lean toward /eɪ/ and I've been accused of using it in "egg" and "leg" as well :)
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Some discussion of the scope of the field in an opinion/survey piece with Juri Opitz & Shira Wein: arxiv.org/abs/2405.05966
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Natural Language Processing RELIES on Linguistics
Large Language Models (LLMs) have become capable of generating highly fluent text in certain languages, without modules specially designed to capture grammar or semantic coherence. What does this mean...
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Some of NLP is about finding algorithms that generalize at scale. But NLP is also about building language tools and technology that serves different user populations—including linguistically diverse users, and also linguists/language scholars.
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I guess I'm fortunate to be in a CS Dept where they simply ask us "How many TA hours do you want for your course?". (We are a small department so it is not always trivial to find TAs with the necessary background, but I have had good luck so far.)
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Yes, to understand teaching load you need to consider course sizes and TA resources, not just the number of courses.
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
"Speech act" is also the term used by Croft in his Morphosyntax book in reference to these conditionals.
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Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I believe Penn Discourse Treebank calls it a Speech Act Conditional. Also: xkcd.com/1652/
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Conditionals
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