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adelegoldberg.bsky.social
linguist, experimental work on meaning (lexical semantics), language use, representation, learning, constructionist usage-based approach, Princeton U https://adele.scholar.princeton.edu/publications/topic
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Unicef is working in Gaza 🙏 help.unicef.org/ob/donate-to...

From NLP to LLMS - really interesting!

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

Benny is an amazing researcher and colleague--you won't regret hiring him!

Confs: Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks

A compositional rule would interpret "a simony blurk" as "a blurk that is simony" GPT-4o explains its "summary guess: A simony blurk could mean a clumsy or ridiculous imitation of something serious" which is more human like? @weissweiler.bsky.social @kmahowald.bsky.social

Had nothing but the best time postdoc-ing with Kyle -- consider applying to work with him!

Thanks to Evan Kidd, @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social (Eds) for organizing the awesome *Open* Encyc. of Cog. Sci. and entrusting me with/ the honor of penning the entry on "Language" (in < 3500 words, so do see other entries for much, MUCH more!) oecs.mit.edu/pub/ho9e9c80...

Very cool work by Qiawen (Ella) Liu, Paridon, @glupyan.bsky.social: e.g., Is white hot or cold? LMs consider 'white' cold because it's mediated by 'snow' Ablate the mediators, and you eliminate the associations. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Until these people are free in America, none of us are free: Mahmoud Khalil RĂĽmeysa Ă–ztĂĽrk Kilmar Abrego Garcia Mohsen Mahdawi

He sounds like a wonderful man with a true moral compass. He's exactly the kind of person I want in my country—not the cruel monsters running our government.

SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

nicel! and constructions are schemas for language

Well done!!

trying to "its a prank its a prank" our way back to a manufacturing economy

#linguistics well, sort of

Boom. Quién dijo que la coordinación era poca cosa?

Also on grammatical islands: backgroundedness & single event status explain variation in acceptability of single extraction of 2nd conjuncts: ?? What does she [[drink gin] and [eat _]]? What did she [[run to the store ]and [buy_]]? www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vo0np... @relbelluck.bsky.social

GPT-4 behaves just like people on a complex set of 'island' stimuli: Backgroundedness jdgmts on base sentences predict independent acceptability jdgmts on Qs & RCs but not jdgmts on the base sentences themselves Causal manipulation works too @supantho.bsky.social www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6ktvd...

I know no one follows me for my politics, but I just have to say: **Being empathetic is not antisemitic** I raised my kids Jewish primarily to help them identify with oppressed people everywhere I'm horrified at how badly that failed for the Steven Millers and Bill Ackmans of the world.

If only there were better news to share. WTF. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/n...

NYT suggests sharing with bluesky above the other place: 🦋 🦋 🦋

The idea that jews suffer from antisemitism because of US universities is absurd.

I tend to skeet in bursts cause I'm self-conscious I bury the thing I meant to post under other random msgs so no one will see it

If you want my phone number in a particular format, you could at least tell me what that format is

When comparing human performance to LLMs' is there an alternative to 'human participants' ? I also find 'human performance' cringy, as if humans were now the marked case.

Fuck is a versatile word (definitions suck) youtu.be/_42tJgX_S48?...

I tell you what, it was pretty simple and easy to explain the existence of trans people to my kid (at age 5) and it is going to be WAY harder to explain to him why masked and hooded people grabbed a Tufts student off the street in a neighborhood he's in often

Not on our behalf www.huffpost.com/entry/jewish...

people: it's soooo interesting, can't wait for the next episode! what do you think it means???? ben stiller: they left the GOATS in!?! LOLOLOL! HARMONY did what?! hahahaha. Toss that bucket o blood IN! My people will follow me anywhere! Execs: We can give you more hallways, sure. Season 3!