Can't believe one week has already passed since the end of the @cl2025.co.uk conference. This year, I had the great honor of serving as one of the plenary speakers, giving my talk on AI and corpus linguistics in a really lovely venue. Big thanks to @robbielove.org and all the organisers. #CL2025

Arriving early for the start of the Microsoft AI Tour here in Tokyo. A great way to finish my sabbatical year, where I focused my research, talks, and app development on this revolutionary technology.

A bit late, but I’m currently in Erlangen, Germany, enjoying the first day of a @rc21project.bsky.social symposium. It was a great honor to open the event with a talk on AI integration with concordance methods, focusing on new #AntConc functions.

Happy to announce our paper on vocab testing using AI was just accepted by the CALL journal. My first collaboration with @Jeffrey51122028, @AaronOlafBatty, Keita Nakamura, Christopher Nicklin, @StuartM13041063, and Kanako Tomaru. The preprint is here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Today was my first day back at Waseda University, where I had the pleasure of hosting Nathan Wang, the CTO of the educational AI company Edexia (YC W25). Very much enjoyed discussing the role of AI in education and hearing about the company's plans.

Back in Japan after a fantastic half year sabbatical at the University of Queensland. Good news is that I'll be continuing my connection with UQ as a visiting scholar until 2028, serving as a consultant and developer for the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) project. www.ldaca.edu.au

Last day of my sabbatical at the University of Queensland. I’ve had such a great time in Brisbane. It’s a really lovely city. Huge thanks to Martin Schweinberger and @drcrosthwaite.bsky.social for being such great hosts, and to everyone else I’ve met during my time here for being so welcoming.

Very much enjoyed attending the Brisbane AWS User Group this evening. Great talk by Mark Promnitz and a great atmosphere in the AWS offices. Nice getting to know Bill McKeague, too.

Today is the last day to register for the event below. I'm honored to be giving the opening talk: AI-Assisted Concordancing: From Search Support to Pattern Profiling.

For anyone interested in my recent seminar on running DeepSeek-R1 and other open-source/open weight AI models locally, I have now created a public GitHub repo that includes all the slides, demo files, and a complete tutorial. I hope you find it useful! github.com/laurenceanth...

Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation today at the Queensland Govt. AI Community of Practice. The topic of running DeepSeek-R1 and other AI models seems very timely as we had a huge turnout—300 people! I'll be making the slides and materials publicly available soon.

For anyone with a .gov.au email, I’ll be giving a talk on “Local, private, portable AI: Getting started with DeepSeek-R1 and other open weight models” on Feb 10 (Mon), 2025 for the QLD Govt. Customer and Digital Group (QGCDG) as part of its AI Community of Practice series.

I’m happy to announce that I’ve just started a new contract position as an Educational AI Advisor for the Queensland Government, Australia! Many thanks to Marco Fahmi for setting this up. For anyone wondering, I'm still also a full-time professor at Waseda University in Japan!

Hi everyone. Here's an event that I'll be presenting at in March 2025. I'll be talking about "AI-Assisted Concordancing: From Search Support to Pattern Profiling" where I'll demonstrate AI models runnning locally in #AntConc (no OpenAI account needed). www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/research/cur...

It's a big honor to be giving a plenary at CL2025, where I'll be looking at the integration of GenAI and traditional corpus methods. If you're thinking of going, the deadline for regular submissions is Friday, Jan 17, 2025. Maybe I'll see you in Birmingham! www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap...

One goal of my sabbatical here at UQ in Brisbane was to build an LLM from scratch so I could be sure I fully understood every component and could experiment on each one. I think I'm final there. Here's the first toy example.... notice how the model has learned that cats sit on mats!

Hi everyone! I've just completely updated my website to make it run quicker and hopefully easier to navigate. I hope you like the changes. If you notice any missing or broken links, do let me know. laurenceanthony.net

Great to see more and more people following me here on Bluesky. One thing I like about this platform is that posts can be long enough for some meaningful discussion. So, following from my previous post, what new tool or feature or change to my existing tools would you like to see me implement?

Looks like I’m getting a lot of new followers here on Bluesky. Welcome everybody! Here’s a quick question: Do you think it’s good that my #AntConc software now includes an integration with AI through its ChatAI tool? Would you like to have access to language models that run locally on your system?

I've been very interested lately about the debate on if LLMs can generate any original/creative content. My experiments suggest that they can, but many very knowledgeable people in the field claim that they can't. So, how would we falsify a claim that LLMs cannot generate original/creative content?

@karpathy.bsky.social Thank you for another really excellent video tutorial on LLMS. I am a big fan of your work. For others, you can watch the video here: youtu.be/zjkBMFhNj_g?...