In Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don’t Take Their Word for It, Brandon Waldon, @complingy.bsky.social, @wegotlieb.bsky.social, Amir Zeldes & @kevintobia.bsky.social outline the dangers of using LLMs as a resource for legal interpretation & suggest how to use AI responsibly.

Today, the ACL Anthology switched to a new system for how author pages work. From now on, ORCID iDs will be the main mechanism for matching papers to the correct author. 🧵⤵️

Currently accepting applications on a rolling basis! Postdoc in Empirical Approaches to Legal Interpretation, with a start date of Fall 2025. A great opportunity to work with the wonderful @complingy.bsky.social @kevintobia.bsky.social Details here: apply.interfolio.com/170055

Me: English doesn't have resumptive pronouns. Also me: It says to cool on wire racks, which I don't know where they are. #syntax #RelativeClauses

7 Supreme Court justices: linguists may actually know something about how to interpret language? Justice Thomas: now that's crazy talk.

Our survey highlights the enduring influence of linguistics on #NLProc. We emphasize 6 facets: Resources, Evaluation, Low-resource settings, Interpretability, Explanation, and the Study of language.

So thrilled for @grammartable.bsky.social ! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/n...

📣 New Paper ⚖️🧑‍⚖️🏛️ Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don't Take Their Word for It 👩‍⚖️🏛️⚖️ with @bwal.bsky.social , @complingy.bsky.social Amir Zeldes, and @kevintobia.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Four (4!) postdocs, neurosci of language, Georgetown University NeurosciLang Training Program docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Dave Barry, formal semanticist #linguistics

A lovely obituary for Bill Labov in the Inquirer.

Garden path of the day: "Merchan wrote the Supreme Court’s ruling that Trump should receive broad immunity for official acts during his time in office did not mean the conviction should be dismissed...."

Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

[POLL] What do you think about the grammaticality of the following sentence?: "I’m not getting as good of service out here as I thought I would." (absent a poll feature, reply with 👍 or 👎, and feel free to explain yourself)

It's graduate application season! See below for two resources that people have found useful: - Blog post on writing a Ph.D. statement of purpose - List of many North American linguistics departments with computational/NLP research #NLProc #CompLing #phdchat

Today I had the honor of hooding Dr. Shira Wein (shirawein.github.io), whose Ph.D. consisted of groundbreaking #NLProc research on crosslingual meaning representation!

Linguistics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MDF... @lhlew.bsky.social

Are English synthetic comparatives (-er/-est) losing ground to analytic comparatives (more/most)? I often notice people writing "more fine-grained" whereas I would opt for "finer-grained", and just this week I've seen "more stark" and "most stark" in writing from two people who are younger than me.

Reading some remarks on the state of AI (🧵): "Artificial intelligence is currently in vogue. It is this field that is currently entrusted with that elusive magician's wand which is supposed to help solve all the problems of knowledge, language, and universal welfare.

*Spiderman pointing meme* INVITING PEOPLE FOR SERVICE ROLES / BEING INVITED FOR SERVICE ROLES #AcademicSky

Anyone know the origin of the expression "snacks on snacks on snacks"? It came up in my prepositions course when we discussed the Noun-Preposition-Noun construction.

Best sentence of the Supreme Court oral argument, for obvious reasons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VpJ... "My friend relies on a claimed difference between an 'office under' and an 'officer of' the United States, but this case does not come down to mere prepositions." #SCOTUS #lingsky #prepositions

In the supermarket, overheard a new (to me) verb: "(I can't be) favoritizing you over everybody else." Seems like a blend of "favor X over Y" and the more specific meaning of 'play favorites'? @adelegoldberg.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social

release day release day 🥳 OLMo 1b +7b out today and 65b soon... OLMo accelerates the study of LMs. We release *everything*, from toolkit for creating data (Dolma) to train/inf code blog blog.allenai.org/olmo-open-la... olmo paper allenai.org/olmo/olmo-pa... dolma paper allenai.org/olmo/dolma-p...

Why does English have no transitive verb for "bid farewell to", as a counterpart to "greet"? I feel like I need a top hat and a monocle to express this concept. #lingsky

Excerpt of my internal monologue: "Some shirts I feel better when I wear than others...ugggh it feels dirty to topicalize out of an adjunct huh...."

Our YUGE consensus semantic paper is now out in the world. 50+ authors, hot tears, vicious arguments, shattered dreams -- but through the fire has emerged a glossary of terms/constructs to improve communication and promote incremental theory-building in our field. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Received a grammar question about requests like "May you update the team?" ("may" instead of "would" or "can"). Has anybody heard of this phenomenon? #lingsky

Pictured: Penn State administrators after they decided to include 40 required evaluation criteria on the form to submit a letter of recommendation for a Ph.D. applicant. You're hilarious, dudes.

It's grad application season! For folks interested in North American linguistics departments with research in or adjacent to NLP, see this page: nschneid.github.io/nlp-in-ling/ Applications for Georgetown's Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics are due this Friday!

Fellow researchers: were you mentored in how to review when you first started reviewing?

Today in linguists are NOT KIDDING when we say that your capacity for language enables you to understand sentences that have never before been uttered in human history.

A doozy of a center embedding: "There's a real range of views about how expansive Congress's authority to even create the ability to go to court and sue should be understood to be." (Strict Scrutiny podcast, 10/9/23 episode at 8:19. crooked.com/podcast/not-... ) #syntax

Attested in my internal monologue: "the only TV show I know someone who was on". That's an island violation, right (extraction from a doubly embedded relative clause)?

Me thinking about syntax: Coordination is the WORST and should be BANNED Me writing letters of recommendation: PERSON is X, Y, and Z, managing not only to do A, but also to do B, which demonstrates their preparedness for C and D.

No poll feature so just reply Y/N: Do you know the expression "make one's toilet"? As in, "BRB making my toilet".* *Hypothetical example

Haven't posted on here yet— We're hiring a junior faculty member in computational linguistics at Georgetown! 🎓😎 There's a tremendous amount of talent in the field right now, so I can't wait to read the applications. Apply by Nov. 1. DMs/email open for questions. #NLProc #CompLing