I see. As you say, you seem to be using a definition of the word "interpret" that goes beyond the dictionary definition. In my talk, I was using the dictionary definition when I suggested that AI told might help us to interpret language patterns.
I'm a bit confused. I used the Cambridge definition of interpretation above. If you agree with the definition and accept that AI models can explain things, doesn't it follow that they can offer useful interpretations?
Interesting! The Cambridge Dictionary defines interpretation as "an explanation or opinion of what something means". Do you think that AI is not able to explain things? Perhaps try asking ChatGPT to explain "Corpus Linguistics". I think you'll find that it's ability to explain is pretty good.
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
Thank you so much for coming! So, what are your thoughts? Do you think I made a convincing argument?
Thank you so much for coming to my talk last week! I really appreciate the kind words about the talk, too. The picture is fantastic! It's one of only 3 or 4 that I have, so it's very special.
Thank you for all the great chats over breakfast each morning. They were the perfect start to the day getting the brain firing. Hope to see you soon!
Just catching up on social media now that I'm back in Japan. Lovely to see you at #CL2025 as always. Thank you for the great workshop, too. Congrats on the new release of #WMatrix.
It is a great honor. I am very much looking forward to working with you all.
It's a great honor to be serving as a guest professor at DHSS. Very much looking forward to the new possibilities for collaboration that the position allows for.
It was so lovely to see you at the conference. Thank you for the kind words about my talk. It seems to have generated a lot of discussion, which is great to see. As you say, the photo really does perfectly capture the evening, too. I could not have asked for a better venue.
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.
Thank you! It was great to see you at the conference.
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.
Thank you! Glad you found it useful.
Thanks for taking the photo. It’ll be a nice reminder of the event.
Thanks! There are so many possibilities.
Glad you like it. The new interface is much simpler than in the past (but with the same functionality). I’m hoping it will be easier to use and explain.
Nice summary of the main point from my talk. Thank you for coming!
Happy to announce our paper on vocab testing using AI was just accepted by the CALL journal. My first collaboration with @Jeffrey51122028, @AaronOlafBatty, Keita Nakamura, Christopher Nicklin, @StuartM13041063, and Kanako Tomaru. The preprint is here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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!
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...
