New blog post in our #CALC in Practice Blog / Journal: "Manipulating Lexical Forms with the PyLexibank FormSpec" calc.hypotheses.org/8877 doi.org/10.15475/cal...

New preprint with Barbara Meisterernst, on a database of qù-tone alternations in Ancient Chinese, now out with Open-Research-Europe, awaiting open peer review. doi.org/10.12688/ope... The database can be accessed at qualternations.digling.org

PHONO-ML Database La base de données de transcriptions phonétiques en chinois moyen produite par Alexander Delaporte et Guillaume Jacques au CRLAO est disponible publiquement : Gitlab Huma-Num = gitlab.huma-num.fr/phono-ml/dat... Github = github.com/alxdrdelapor... Zenodo = doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Mein Blogbeitrag via @dehypotheses.bsky.social für Oktober beschäftigt sich mit wissenschaftlichen Konstrukten und wie man sie kommuniziert. Von gefühlten Tatsachen wub.hypotheses.org/3049

New preprint by Katja Bocklage (PhD in our ERC project) and many others from our chair just published online with Humanities Commons. Testing the Potential of Automatically Inferred Affix Colexifications for Linguistic Typology works.hcommons.org/records/adjy...

We're so happy to share our newest ancient DNA findings in Mongolia on the Slab Grave expansion and its consequences for diverse Bronze Age pastoralists! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

#OTD 5 yrs ago: @mzorki.bsky.social shared some thoughts on #regularexpressions, starting from what they are, and how frequently we use them without even realizing it! #digitallife #digitaltools #regex #tbt digitalorientalist.com/2020/09/25/s...

Big news: Internet Archive Europe ( @internetarchive.eu ) has opened its new HQ in Amsterdam! 🎉 A home for preservation, access & shared cultural heritage. Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...

che.hypotheses.org/1128 #ecology #dh #anthropocene #humboldt #computationalhumanities #digitalhumanities #history

quelle surprise that academia dot edu now offers AI slopcasts they were a garbage flattery service ten years ago, and they have turned up the enshittification a few notches ideophone.org/academia-edu...

New post by our doctoral student Arne Rubehn in our CALCiP journal / blog. "Integrating Semantic Embeddings into NoRaRe" calc.hypotheses.org/8783

Mein neuer Blogbeitrag im September, via @dehypotheses.bsky.social, geht auf einige interessante Parallelen zwischen der Mathematik und der historischen Linguistik ein. wub.hypotheses.org/3018

Already yesterday, my new post in our #CALC in Practice Blog/Journal appeared, this time Illustrating Data Curation in NoRaRe with the Help of Templates calc.hypotheses.org/8723

Mein Blogbeitrag im August, via @dehypotheses.bsky.social befasst sich mit Ambiguitäten von bestimmten sprachlichen Konstruktionen. Von subjektiven und objektiven Fällen wub.hypotheses.org?p=2928

2 Ph.D. positions (48m/100% FTE) in the project "Description of the endangered Mönpa language of Bhutan” headed by Tim Bodt at Trinity College Dublin www.tcd.ie/media/tcd/sl...

Testing the ACL@Vienna coffee cups for their ability to hold objects beyond beverages. #ACL2025

Human and a robot are sitting at a kitchen table. The human says, ‘Please pass me the salt.’ The robot does so. Did the machine understand the request? In a public lecture, linguists Professor @lingulist.de and Dr Christian Bentz provide plenty of food for thought. #KeepCALLM 🧪

Our team's papers at SIGTYP@ACL Vienna are online now. "Robustness of Concept Translations in the Compilation of Multilingual Wordlists" by Snee et al. aclanthology.org/2025.sigtyp-... "Compositional Structures in Numeral Systems Across Languages" by Rubehn et al. aclanthology.org/2025.sigtyp-...

It is official, our two long papers at #ACL2025 have now been published. Common work with Arne Rubehn (Concept Embeddings), and Frederic Blum and @sherbold.bsky.social (Automated Language Affiliation). aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon... aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...

New blog post in our CALCiP journal. Kellen Parker van Dam presents a CLDF version of legacy material on Muishaung, a Sino-Tibetan language. doi.org/10.15475/cal... calc.hypotheses.org/8624

Wie schlägt sich KI gegen professorale Expertise? Die Quiz-Show unter Moderation von @sherbold.bsky.social ist nun in voller Länge online. Wer sich vorab selbst mit der KI messen möchte, kann dies per Online-Quiz tun: www.digital.uni-passau.de/beitraege/20... #KeepCALLM #5gegenKI

Indeed, a lot of fun, thanks for organizing!

Mein Blogbeitrag im Juli via @dehypotheses.bsky.social geht auf die Grundeinstellung zur Sinnhaftigkeit der eigenen Forschung bei Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften ein und berichtet ein bisschen von meinen eigenen Erfahrungen. "Von der Einstellung" wub.hypotheses.org/2895

"The teachers say that AI applications such as chatbots are being 'hyped' and warn that they are merely products of the technology industry, which — like the tobacco and oil industries — is only interested in profit." www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid... Our letter: openletter.earth/open-letter-...

“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.”

Thrilled to share that I was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal 🏅 in recognition of my doctoral research on language diversity! A huge thank you to everyone who has supported me along the way! www.eva.mpg.de/press/news/a...

💬 Do #LLMs really understand human language? #ChatGPT says yes, but Professor @lingulist.de is sceptical while Dr Bentz agrees with the language model. Join their public debate: 📅 3 July, 6 pm 📍 Lecture theatre 13 More information: www.digital.uni-passau.de/en/digitalis... #KeepCALLM

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Benioff says "50% of work now done by AI", and most media lap it up instead of realising what it means: that he understands neither "work", "AI", nor "%". If the singularity is near, it's not because machine intelligence surges but because we're giving up on thinking ideophone.org/bringing-abo...

That's the reason why I can't see when we have to present, as I now consider seriously attending the main conference as well, not only the workshop on Friday...

Now published, our study presenting Lexibank 2. Blum et al. (2025) in Open Research Europe. doi.org/10.12688/ope...

Mein Blogbeitrag zum Juni handelt "Von der Vorläufigkeit der Erkenntnisse" via @dehypotheses.bsky.social wub.hypotheses.org/2853

Just published "Tone in Yongning Na: Lexical tones and morphotonology (Second edition)" by Alexis Michaud #sidl #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

Just learned that our study introducing Lexibank 2 (Blum et al.) has passed peer review with Open Research Europe. We will revise with reviewers' comments, but the study is accepted, Lexibank 2 is now official. Lexibank 2: pre-computed features for large-scale lexical data doi.org/10.12688/ope...

Mehr Informationen sowie alle Termine der interdisziplinären Vortragsreihe im Überblick: www.digital.uni-passau.de/generative-s... #LLMs #KeepCALLM @sherbold.bsky.social @lingulist.de @mgrani.bsky.social

Wie können Zahlen der Jonglierkunst zu neuen Ideen verhelfen? 🧠🤹‍♂️ Prof. Dr. @lingulist.de zeigt's beim #ScienceSlam zum Thema „Alles #digital?!“ in Kooperation mit #acatech. Rückblick mit Videos aller Beiträge, u.a. auch von @stefanchristoph.bsky.social 👉 www.digital.uni-passau.de/beitraege/20...

Glottolog 5.2 has just been released at glottolog.org Get the full data at doi.org/10.5281/zeno... or the CLDF dataset at doi.org/10.5281/zeno... or browse at glottolog.org #glottolog

Die Videos vom Science Slam vom 13 Mai an der Universität Passau sind nun online. Darunter auch mein Beitrag zum Jonglieren nach Zahlen mit Hilfe von Site Swaps (ich demonstriere die Muster natürlich live). player.vimeo.com/video/108674... www.digital.uni-passau.de/beitraege/20...

New contribution to our CALCiP blog / journal: Extracting Transparent Compounds from Lexibank doi.org/10.15475/cal... calc.hypotheses.org/8526

Mein Blogbeitrag im Mai behandelt das Modellieren und das Jonglieren. Konkret geht es dabei um die Siteswap-Notation beim Jonglieren und die Rolle von Modellen für die Wissenschaft. Vom Modellieren wub.hypotheses.org/2822

Kassian & Starostin’s new paper is good from a comp. hist. ling. standpoint in my opinion. One of the things the authors point out that has been my personal gripe with use of Bayesian phylogenetics I’ve seen in hist. ling. thus far is that even though linguists ... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just saw that a new article on Indo-European by Alexei Kassian and George Starostin is out, new chapter in the discussion on the age of the family. doi.org/10.1057/s415...

Fantastic to see in the morning that not only our paper on automated language affiliation with Frederic Blum and @sherbold.bsky.social was accepted for the ACL main conference in Vienna, but also our study with Arne Rubehn on concept embeddings. doi.org/10.48550/arX... doi.org/10.48550/arX...

TROLLing just published its 200th dataset and is celebrating it in a special article. zenodo.org/records/1538...

Ich wurde von der Arbeitsstelle Kleine Fächer zur Computerlinguistik befragt. Die Antworten sind heute online erschienen.

Our study introducing Lexibank², the second installation of the Lexibank repository, just appeared online with Open Research Europe (with Frederic Blum as our first author who lead this project bravely). We now wait for open peer review. doi.org/10.12688/ope...

Very sad news about the passing of Qiu Xigui, one of the most creative, meticulous and kind specialists in Chinese paleography, ancient history, pre-Qin philology and archaeology, a true giant of the Early China field. 大雅云亡, 絕學千秋. R.i.p! mp.weixin.qq.com/s/pc7bE3uwC_...

Für SWR-Kultur habe ich ein Gespräch mit Julia Nestlen über das geführt, was allen Sprachen gemeinsam ist und was sie unterscheidet. www.swr.de/swrkultur/wi... #Interview #Universalien #Linguistik

A new paper with Michele Pulini appeared as part of the proceedings on Ancient Language Processing. Using Cross-Linguistic Data Formats to Enhance the Annotation of Ancient Chinese Documents Written on Bamboo Slips aclanthology.org/2025.alp-1.4/