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Laurence Anthony

@lanthony.bsky.social

Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan. Interested in corpus linguistics, language data science, AI, educational technology, and the world at large.

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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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