Nice!

What one considers a “pretty crazy theory” is of course totally subjective. Dependency parsing was introduced into (pre-LLM) NLP as a hack, because computational linguists struggled too much with constituency grammars. No one else really cared so much about dependencies. Pretty crazy, right?

Congratulations to Dr. Simeon Junker, from the CLAUSE group at Bielefeld University, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Visual Context and Communicative Goals in Referring Expression Generation”! 🥳

@clausebielefeld.bsky.social

My quote of the day:
»be the Madonna in the crowd
not the phone zombie
…dance like nobody's filming it« 🥳

»Wer was echtes will, der kommt zu mir
Gütesiegel Straßendeutsch, es gibt kein'n echteren hier«
― Twin. Familienangelegenheit.

…crazy how Madonna seems to be the only one enjoying herself dancing during Anyma’s set at Coachella while the younger crowd just stands there

Respekt für einen Schritt für den viele (=ich) wohl nicht mutig oder vernünftig genug sind!

»Das aktuelle Wissenschaftssystem schätzt Selbstausbeutung bis zum Zusammenbruch, einen gesunden Umgang mit Arbeit hingegen überhaupt nicht.«

Summer School 2026 - Universität Bielefeld This is the website for the DGfS Summer School 2026, hosted by the Bielefeld University. We offer 32 1-week courses during 10-21. August 2026. Topics are Syntax/Morphology, Semantics/Pragmatics, Lin...

Too slay for syntax? Join my course on #sociophonetics and discuss #Deutschrap , #Kiezdeutsch and #Creativity at the #LINCC #DGfS Summer School in Bielefeld! 😎

Registration is possible until April 30th, 2026!
www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...

Pastiche-Rechtsprechung: EuGH erneut zu 'Metall auf Metall' Der EuGH konkretisiert die Pastiche-Schranke im Urheberrecht. Bei einem Dialog mit dem Originalwerk ist eine Nutzung erlaubt.

Sampling ist ein wesentliches Element im HipHop.
Schon vor einigen Jahren habe ich in einem Seminar über diesen besonderen Rechtsstreit #Pelham vs #Kraftwerk aus der Frühzeit des #Deutschrap gesprochen. War damals schon alt. Wie es aussieht, nimmt diese unendliche Geschichte kein Ende. 😯

scheee!

I'm very excited. I am teaching again!
My first seminar since the pandemic.
My first seminar since ChatGPT.
I'm curious, how much the world actually changed.
🤓

Familien mit kleinen Kindern in Berlin gesucht. Melden Sie sich gerne.

Summer School 2026 - Bielefeld University This is the website for the DGfS Summer School 2026, hosted by the Bielefeld University. We offer 32 1-week courses during 10-21. August 2026. Topics are Syntax/Morphology, Semantics/Pragmatics, Linguistic Creativity and Foundational courses.

Interessiert an einem Stipendium für die #DGfS Sommerschule 2026 in Bielefeld?

Die Bewerbungsfrist für Nachwuchs aus Deutschland ohne Förderung der Heimatuniversität oder anderer Geldgeber endet am 15. April 2026.

www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...

Oh no. Most certainly a wrong decision. Foolish, I dare say 😟

😂

Phonetik & Phonologie 22 in Jena am 01./02. Oktober 2026

Freue mich schon auf die P&P an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 😎
www.gw.uni-jena.de/98626/2026-p-p

It's >25% already 😯

Research Position (m/f/d) in the SFB TRR 318 in th... <p style="text-align:justify;">The Transregional Collaborative Research Center (TRR 318) “Constructing Explainability,” which is j...

3-year full time position in phonetics and speech technology at Bielefeld University (Germany), suitable for PhD candidates: jobs.uni-bielefeld.de/job/view/487...

Tell me about it 🤕

Only 499 days to go! 🤓

@icphs2027.bsky.social
icphs2027.ca

Before we forget: of course, CLAUSE Bielefeld is also at @eaclmeeting.bsky.social 2026 in Rabat/Marocco!

Our group is involved in a main conference papers:

Thanks to the amazing dedicated efforts of community-minded colleagues over many years, the International Speech Communications Association (ISCA) maintains the largest open archive of research papers in speech communications www.isca-archive.org

The Way You Cheer on Runners Is Objectively Weird (and Beneficial). Science Explains A recent study found that cheering is an incredibly unique form of speech with four main patterns. Which do you prefer?

Are you interested in how people #cheer for long distance runners? There are some specific #prosodic patterns, nicely explained by Marzena Zygis from #ZAS also for laymen. run.outsideonline.com/road/road-ra... If you want to read the paper, it is here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Dankeschön

Was sonst? 😎

Wie zum Beispiel diesen Kurs hier:
Sociophonetics: The Creative Use of the Multiethnolect in German Rap.
😎

There's nothing new under the sun

There's nothing new under the sun

I.—COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?’ This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms ‘machine’ and ‘think’. The definit

Turing did not agree.
Do you?

»Not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain―that is, not only write it but know that it had written it. No mechanism could feel […] pleasure at its successes […]«