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Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Can't believe one week has already passed since the end of the @cl2025.co.uk conference. This year, I had the great honor of serving as one of the plenary speakers, giving my talk on AI and corpus linguistics in a really lovely venue. Big thanks to @robbielove.org and all the organisers. #CL2025

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Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Arriving early for the start of the Microsoft AI Tour here in Tokyo. A great way to finish my sabbatical year, where I focused my research, talks, and app development on this revolutionary technology.

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Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

A bit late, but I’m currently in Erlangen, Germany, enjoying the first day of a @rc21project.bsky.social symposium. It was a great honor to open the event with a talk on AI integration with concordance methods, focusing on new #AntConc functions.

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Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Today was my first day back at Waseda University, where I had the pleasure of hosting Nathan Wang, the CTO of the educational AI company Edexia (YC W25). Very much enjoyed discussing the role of AI in education and hearing about the company's plans.

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Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Back in Japan after a fantastic half year sabbatical at the University of Queensland. Good news is that I'll be continuing my connection with UQ as a visiting scholar until 2028, serving as a consultant and developer for the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) project. www.ldaca.edu.au

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LDaCA

The Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) project receives investment from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) through its HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons program. The ARDC is f...

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Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Last day of my sabbatical at the University of Queensland. I’ve had such a great time in Brisbane. It’s a really lovely city. Huge thanks to Martin Schweinberger and @drcrosthwaite.bsky.social for being such great hosts, and to everyone else I’ve met during my time here for being so welcoming.

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Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Very much enjoyed attending the Brisbane AWS User Group this evening. Great talk by Mark Promnitz and a great atmosphere in the AWS offices. Nice getting to know Bill McKeague, too.

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Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Today is the last day to register for the event below. I'm honored to be giving the opening talk: AI-Assisted Concordancing: From Search Support to Pattern Profiling.

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Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

For anyone interested in my recent seminar on running DeepSeek-R1 and other open-source/open weight AI models locally, I have now created a public GitHub repo that includes all the slides, demo files, and a complete tutorial. I hope you find it useful! github.com/laurenceanth...

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GitHub - laurenceanthony/LocalAI: A repo for experiments in building, fine-tuning, and running open-source/open-weight AI models in a local, private, and sometimes portable context.

A repo for experiments in building, fine-tuning, and running open-source/open-weight AI models in a local, private, and sometimes portable context. - laurenceanthony/LocalAI

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Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation today at the Queensland Govt. AI Community of Practice. The topic of running DeepSeek-R1 and other AI models seems very timely as we had a huge turnout—300 people! I'll be making the slides and materials publicly available soon.

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Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

For anyone with a .gov.au email, I’ll be giving a talk on “Local, private, portable AI: Getting started with DeepSeek-R1 and other open weight models” on Feb 10 (Mon), 2025 for the QLD Govt. Customer and Digital Group (QGCDG) as part of its AI Community of Practice series.

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Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I’m happy to announce that I’ve just started a new contract position as an Educational AI Advisor for the Queensland Government, Australia! Many thanks to Marco Fahmi for setting this up. For anyone wondering, I'm still also a full-time professor at Waseda University in Japan!

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Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Hi everyone. Here's an event that I'll be presenting at in March 2025. I'll be talking about "AI-Assisted Concordancing: From Search Support to Pattern Profiling" where I'll demonstrate AI models runnning locally in #AntConc (no OpenAI account needed). www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/research/cur...

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Symposium: Reading Concordances in the 21st Century

Join us for the RC21 Project Symposium, where invited speakers and project team members will present their work on methodology and applications of concordance analysis: For those new to concordance…

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Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

It's a big honor to be giving a plenary at CL2025, where I'll be looking at the integration of GenAI and traditional corpus methods. If you're thinking of going, the deadline for regular submissions is Friday, Jan 17, 2025. Maybe I'll see you in Birmingham! www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap...

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CL2025 - Call for papers

Abstract submission is now open here

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Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

One goal of my sabbatical here at UQ in Brisbane was to build an LLM from scratch so I could be sure I fully understood every component and could experiment on each one. I think I'm final there. Here's the first toy example.... notice how the model has learned that cats sit on mats!

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Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hi everyone! I've just completely updated my website to make it run quicker and hopefully easier to navigate. I hope you like the changes. If you notice any missing or broken links, do let me know. laurenceanthony.net

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Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Great to see more and more people following me here on Bluesky. One thing I like about this platform is that posts can be long enough for some meaningful discussion. So, following from my previous post, what new tool or feature or change to my existing tools would you like to see me implement?

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Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Looks like I’m getting a lot of new followers here on Bluesky. Welcome everybody! Here’s a quick question: Do you think it’s good that my #AntConc software now includes an integration with AI through its ChatAI tool? Would you like to have access to language models that run locally on your system?

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Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

I've been very interested lately about the debate on if LLMs can generate any original/creative content. My experiments suggest that they can, but many very knowledgeable people in the field claim that they can't. So, how would we falsify a claim that LLMs cannot generate original/creative content?

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Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

@karpathy.bsky.social Thank you for another really excellent video tutorial on LLMS. I am a big fan of your work. For others, you can watch the video here: youtu.be/zjkBMFhNj_g?...

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