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Wir sind wieder da!

Die Sanierung jenes Teils der #UniBielefeld, in dem sich unser alter Fachschafts-Raum befand, hat begonnen.

Wir haben aber jetzt Zugriff auf einen neuen Raum und können wieder öffentlich zu unseren Treffen einladen.

Ihr könnt uns bei unseren Treffen jederzeit besuchen!

Diese finden…

- Montags um 12:00 Uhr (s. t.)…
- … alle zwei Wochen, und zwar in den geraden KWen…
- … im Raum D3-139…

… statt. :) Wir freuen uns!

Dear NLP folks, if you have an account in the Fediverse (e.g., Mastodon), you can now follow us by this handle: @starsem.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy. To do this seamlessly, simply go to our followers page (fed.brid.gy/bsky/starsem...), put your Fediverse address and click Follow! #NLProc #CompLing

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Bluesky Social*SEM (@starsem.bsky.social)Organized and sponsored by SIGLEX, the Special Interest Group of the ACL, *SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of natural languages and its computational modeling. *SEM 2025: https://starsem2025.github.io
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As long as you...

(1) host and run it yourself,
(2) it's open source,
(3) it's not trained on art or personal data,
(4) it's not constantly re-trained at extreme energy costs to be "up to date",
(5) it's not advertised as an information source, therapy, search engine, artificial intelligence or anything else it's not,

there's literally no ethical issue in #LLM. It's just a mathematical language model.

I wonder how #hashtags would have been developed differently if they had been invented and popularised by people speaking a #language with strongly marked cases.

If I post 'Sauce mit Pilzen' (German for 'sauce with mushrooms'), and I would like to tag the mushrooms, I can't just go '#Pilzen', because '#Pilzen' is a different hashtag from '#Pilze'. Let alone #Pilzes and #Pilz.

Would we tag things with #SemanticWeb URIs?
#hashtag #tech #compling #computationallinguistics #l10n #i18n #linguistics

🇬🇧 Hey there!

I'm #newHere at the Localization Café. ☕

I have been working as a freelancer for some time, translating and localising what mostly ends up being #videoGames. My language pair is #English and #German.

Outside my #freelancing work, I am a #linguistics and #compLing student who is currently finishing up my dual degree.

In the future I would like to work as an in-house localisation worker in the #gaming industry; fingers crossed, since #gamedev is a difficult field to get into! :)

Studierst Du #Computerlinguistik in #Bielefeld und arbeitest an spannenden Programmier-Projekten, Hausarbeiten, Papers o. Ä.?

Die Fachschaft #CompLing möchte Euch die Möglichkeit geben, eure Arbeit vorzustellen; ganz egal in welchem Semester ihr seid oder wie komplex euer Projekt ist. :) Sammelt Feedback, Kontakte und die Erfahrung, Forschung zu kommunizieren.

Interesse an einem solchen "studentischen Kolloquium"? Dann schreibt uns bitte eine E-Mail. :)
#Linguistik #UniBielefeld #Wissenschaft

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#Introduction with #Hashtags

#Hi, I work on #ComputationalLinguistics (#CompLing): I develop models of human #LanguageLearning and #LanguageUse, and I test them on #RealWorldData. One focus of my work has been on #Lexical #Semantics, looking at how a word's #Meaning can be learnt from #Context, and indeed what kind of #MeaningRepresentation to use in the first place. This work is #Interdisciplinary, drawing on #Linguistics #PhilosophyOfLanguage #CognitiveScience #MachineLearning

@linguistics