If you work in ML, you may have heard of Sutton's 'bitter lesson' (the idea that compute generally beats human knowledge in methods dev).

🔥 Hot take: large language models are *not* a case of this. Nor can there be such a method for NLP.

ICLR'26 blog: iclr-blogposts.github.io/2026/blog/20...

Explore our first drop of models on our GitHub.

They are dependency parsers, perfect for grammar checking.

More models and use cases in the pipeline.

#NoLangaugeLeftBehind #NLProc

github.com/bezokurepo/m...

When AI Can’t Understand Your Language, Democracy Breaks Down | TechPolicy.Press Language equity in AI is not a niche fairness issue but rather a growing democratic fault line, Sofia Olofsson writes.

“What if artificial intelligence looks at your language — and sees nothing?”

Perfect framing for the thousands of missing languages in AI today

#NLProc #NLP #NoLanguageLeftBehind

www.techpolicy.press/when-ai-cant...

‘We’re a bit jealous of Kneecap’: how Europe’s minority tongues are facing the digital future | Stephen Burgen What does it mean to lose a language, and what does it take to save it? Those were the big questions being asked in Barcelona recently, says freelance writer Stephen Burgen

Great read on why language goes to the heart of culture

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Harvard-educated linguist breaking down ‘skibidi’ and ‘rizz’

Adam Aleksic, who posts as @etymologynerd.bsky.social, argues in a new book that algorithms are reshaping the English language.

UNIVIEW has been updated from 17beta to support the changes for Unicode 17.0 in the final release.

r12a.github.io/uniview/

Janga Wolof Language & Culture of The Senegambia

xët bu njëkk (homepage) jangawolof.org

Inspired to share some papers that I found at #COLM2025!

"Register Always Matters: Analysis of LLM Pretraining Data Through the Lens of Language Variation" by Amanda Myntti et al. arxiv.org/abs/2504.01542

#windows10 support ceased today.

DM for an info sheet on how to convert a windows 10 machine to run on a secure, localized Linux desktop with a Bezoku local language model.

#LowResourceLanguages #NLProc #eWaste

George Santos — Wikipédia

It’s me or a lot of Wikipedia French articles seem to have been automatically translated lately and without saying so?

Like this one for exemple:

fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?

Huge implications for low resource and indigenous languages.

#NLP #Linguistics #nolanguageleftbehind

www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

We will launch with Scottish Gaelic, courtesy of Universal Dependencies.

Scottish humour comes as standard

#gaelic #NLProc #languages

www.instagram.com/p/DPF5YmcjzD...

We need a bench of skilled linguists who have worked on corpora and treebanks applying their skills for syntactic annotation.

Attached is a list of supported languages for the first release of the bezoku platform.

DM to learn more

We updated the list of papers we are reading after #syntaxfest - focused around low resource and indigenous language technology developments.

What did we miss 🤷‍♂️

#NLProc #Linguistics #NLP

github.com/bezokurepo/p...

From the French community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the French community

“Why did the French chef kill himself?

Because he lost the huile d’olive”

The role of humour in language is so important, that’s why we include jokes in every corpus.

#linguistics #NLProc

www.reddit.com/r/French/com...

🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...

I will try to mention at dinner this evening 🙏

Apologies, made the wrong inference 🙄. It is a wonderful event

Amazing. Bezoku is attending and not an organizer, we don’t pretend to take any credit . It is an amazing community and opportunity for learning

The organizers did a great job for all 5 events

💯

Not sure. There are ~120 people at the event so maybe someone is putting something out

syntaxfest.github.io/syntaxfest25/

Welcome to Slovenia.

#syntaxfest is in full swing and the agenda is off the charts.

#syntax #semantics #morphosynyactic #linguistics #language

The team are heading to Slovenia on Monday to attend the biannual #syntaxfest

DM to meet and discuss #LSTM architectures and the application of the CoNLL-U standard to #lowresourcelanguages and #indigenouslanguage

#nolanguageleftbehind

syntaxfest.github.io/syntaxfest25/

If true, extremely worrying.

At Bezoku, we believe that language technology must be in the hands of community leaders.

The unprecedented centralization of control of tech is dystopian.

We need to offer better alternatives 👊

Zuckerberg's Grand Vision: Most of Your Friends Will Be AI - Slashdot Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is aggressively promoting a future where AI becomes the dominant form of social interaction, claiming that AI friends, therapists, and business agents will soon outnumber human relationships. During a recent media blitz across multiple podcasts and a Stripe conference appear...

🤮🤮🤮 Zuckerberg's Grand Vision: Most of Your Friends Will Be AI tech.slashdot.org/st...

Open source has been embraced by hyperscalers to drive innovation and level the playing field.

Open source wasn’t embraced to give up advantage—but to gain it.

'Ignorant' MAGA Influencer Praises Trump Admin for Florida Deportations: 'My Uber Drivers Finally Speak English' A MAGA supporting social media user drew ire from social media users after thanking White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt for bringing back Uber drivers who speak english.

After building our network in Florida, we have decided to re-locate to a country that embraces diversity, equity and inclusion.

We have enjoyed every minute in Miami, but State and Federal government is sliding towards fascism.

#DEI #Linguistics #NLProc

www.latintimes.com/ignorant-mag...

❤️ Linux

The future is largely built on top of Linux, and that goes for Bezoku too

#linux #NLProc #opensource