I've found it kind of a pain to work with resources like VerbNet, FrameNet, PropBank (frame files), and WordNet using existing tools. Maybe you have too. Here's a little package that handles data management, loading, and cross-referencing via either a CLI or a python API.

This was never not going to be a banger.

🚨The text has several code snippets, which are taken from the Haskell project under active development here: github.com/probabilisti...

Brand new version of this paper (now a short book!) available at lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/008...!

Nothing quite like Cocteau Twins’ Blue Bell Knoll on a foggy fall evening.

Please stop using OpenTorment!!! It's only open-core! TormentLibre is the fully FOSS alternative!

I just want you guys to know that if your #rstats models aren't converging, it's likely because you're taking Tylenol. Tylenol can flatten likelihood surfaces due to multidimensional recontainerization of typhoid surfaces. I'm going to ask the FDA to modify the label of Tylenol to indicate this.

The only way to send summer off is with a zombie in the yard.

Rochester is such a good city.

The Fall 2025 UR CLS Language Science Lecture Series starts next week! Zoom registration: rochester.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Mailing list: rochester.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=... All talks are Tuesdays 12:30–2pm.

The Fall 2025 UR CLS Language Science Lecture Series starts next week! Zoom registration: rochester.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Mailing list: rochester.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=... All talks are Tuesdays 12:30–2pm.

Been listening obsessively to No Joy’s Bugland since it came out. Definitely in my current top 5 of the year. Also been revisiting Wait to Pleasure (pictured) and let me tell you: Hare Tarot Lies is just as transcendent as it was in 2013.

Late summer, 60F, Ardbeg, Cocteau Twins.

Sometimes you get a paper to review that presents one beautifully simple idea that works way better than you'd have thought and that somehow no one has written up before; and you've just got to mash that hard accept button.

The perfect album for grinding out endless reviews.

Just wild that there are businesses out here in 2025 whose only online presence is in Meta walled gardens.

Excited to share a new preprint from our lab! Led by @qingzhirubyzeng.bsky.social, with @coralineiordan.bsky.social + @aaronstevenwhite.io

/1 New preprint alert! 💫“Expertise Shapes the Multidimensional Perception of Stories”! 💫 We generated a novel corpus of improvised spoken stories using diverse prompts designed to elicit creative and complex narrative structure. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Been making my way through the RA.1000 mixes and the Helena Hauff one is so good. ra.co/podcast/1017

Came down to the wire on the shift from "this brand new course is going to suck" to "actually, this brand new course is going to be so sick", but I did in fact make it.

We presented our work on cross-document event-keyed summarization at XLLM@ACL last month, and I talked a bit about it at @naloma.bsky.social. Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.xllm-1.... Slides: tinyurl.com/naloma-keynote Data + Code: github.com/wgantt/SEAMuS Explorer: staramus.github.io Check it out!

NALOMA starts tomorrow in the 2nd week of #esslli2025 in Bochum. We have three excellent keynotes: @aaronstevenwhite.io Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh Kyle Richardson The workshop program can be found here: naloma.github.io/2025/index.h...

Small idiosyncratic language errors in otherwise clear technical papers are now a plus; assurance that I'm not wasting my time trying to read GPT spam. #neurips2025

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

Couldn’t really justify lugging my modular rack cross country for a one week trip, but obviously I had to bring at least my elektron boxes, right?

git rest --hard

Hankamer, watching him rip their very last phone book in half:

Enviable, deep, blissful ignorance.

Just over here doing some truly unholy shit.

Rust is so good.

Has anyone studied the spectral properties of the subregular hierarchy? Like, languages in class X always have spectral property Y? Got kind of obsessed with this Q over the weekend. Think there might be some potentially cool results involving spectral gaps between languages in some of the classes.

Our Interspeech2025 contrib (for geeks) arxiv.org/pdf/2505.23509 Audio DNNs: impressive performance on machine listening tasks. But most representations are computationally costly & uninterpretable. Let's try something different:

Gave a talk on inducing lexical semantic generalizations at Mayfest 2025 (linguistics.umd.edu/mayfest2025). aaronstevenwhite.io/presentation... Pretty excited about the general framework. In the process of wrapping the (currently very research-codey) implementation into a python package. Out soon.

Gist: programmatic translation of (sequences of) natural language expressions to STAN via the enriched compositional dynamic semantics we describe here: lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/008... We'll be talking about how it works in our {NA,E}SSLLI courses. nasslli25.shane.st 2025.esslli.eu

Prepping for his set at Berghain.

Reviewing a paper where, like, every modeling decision is exactly how I would do it. Did I write this paper?

It hit 65F in Rochester today, so obviously this is on the turntable and I’m slinging painkillers.

This was really good.

bit of good news: approved technical staff position! link below. please be in touch if this matches your skills & interests! drive.google.com/file/d/16J2J... (hr listing posted harvard-internal now; external soon, per guidelines), happy for ?s & plan on quick turnaround! #CogSciSky #PsychSciSky 🐦🐦

Just got back from this yesterday. It is just so pleasant to go to an event that reminds you why you do this stuff in the first place. linguistics.umd.edu/mayfest2025

Two features of student code that immediately tell me they used Claude (or possibly some other LLM with similar baked-in style preferences) to write it: (i) inline comments are uniformly sentence-cased; and for python specifically, (ii) type-hints use deprecated imports from typing.

RIP linguist Haj Ross (1938-2025) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R....

If there was any a day for numbly staring out into the rain while listening to Grouper’s Ruins.

Taught my son to play chess today. It was deeply joyful.

One of the alternative timelines in Anathem.

PEER2025 was such a nice respite from all the chaos, not least because of the Marylander minireunion we got to have. peer-workshop.github.io/program/2025/