🖋️ Curious how writing differs across (research) cultures? 🚩 Tired of “cultural” evals that don't consult people? We engaged with interdisciplinary researchers to identify & measure ✨cultural norms✨in scientific writing, and show that❗LLMs flatten them❗ 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2506.00784 [1/11]

Assuming this is the true criteria they are using, it’s telling that “female” and “woman” are on this list but “male” and “man” are not 🙃

With @jerelev.bsky.social 's vote and suggestions, here is it: go.bsky.app/AU2wEvo Send replies (and pretty plots) to be added :D

💬 Have you or a loved one compared LM probabilities to human linguistic acceptability judgments? You may be overcompensating for the effect of frequency and length! 🌟 In our new paper, we rethink how we should be controlling for these factors 🧵:

Always a new linguistic treasure to unearth: I didn't know this UNESCO map from 2018! Of course there is much to say about how accurate it is, with dialects vs languages, extinct vs endangered, but regardless, it shows a type of linguistic diversity in Europe that is rarely highlighted. #LingSky

I'm keeping track of people at the CMU Language Technologies Institute here: go.bsky.app/NhTwCVb. Follow along!