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#ArtificialIntelligence struggles to understand the Mainz dialect: New study of #MainzUniversity finds that language models misinterpret words in regional varieties // #AI #LargeLanguageModels #LLMs #dialects #ComputationalLinguistics #dialect
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2026/05/19/artificial-intelligence-struggles-to-understand-the-mainz-dialect

Artificial intelligence struggles to understand the Mainz dialect

Mainz University May 19

Artificial intelligence struggles to understand the Mainz dialect: New study of #MainzUniversity finds that language models misinterpret words in regional varieties 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/artificial-intelligence-struggles-to-understand-the-mainz-dialect/

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #LargeLanguageModels #LLMs #dialects #ComputationalLinguistics #dialect

Zuri (he/him) ❌️👑 | 🕐 CET May 17

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116098129762953036

Professor Emily M. Bender's replies are always so on point—huge recommendation if you want to know about the problems with #AI

#noAI #artificialIntelligence #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #genAI #ChatBots #vibeCoding #TheAICon #ComputationalLinguistics #AgentsOfTech #DataWorkers #AI2027 #AGI #artificialGeneralIntelligence #GeoffreyHinton #AIReasoning #NeuralNetworks #EmilyBender #ReinforcementLearning #AIHype

The Open Buddhist University May 17

📰 Human Language Reveals a Universal Positivity Bias (A free, 6-page article from 2015)

Tags: #ComputationalLinguistics #SocialIntelligence #Emotion #Communication
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/human-language-positivity_dodds-peter-sheridan-et-al

Human Language Reveals a Universal Positivity Bias

Using human evaluation of 100,000 words spread across 24 corpora in 10 languages diverse in origin and culture, we present evidence of a deep imprint of human sociality in language, observing that (i) the words of natural human language possess a universal positivity bias, (ii) the estimated emotional content of words is consistent between languages under translation, and (iii) this positivity bias is strongly independent of frequency of word use.

The Open Buddhist University

Cologne Center for eHumanities May 6

Morgen im #DigitalHumanities Kolloquium zu aktuellen Forschungsthemen 2026:

Patrick Brookshire, #AdWMainz & @unimainz: „Tracing Live Events: Muster in historischen Biographien“

📍 Donnerstag, 07.05.2026, 17:45–19:15 Uhr, HS XVIII, Hauptgebäude @UniKoeln

Alle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen! Es ist keine Anmeldung nötig.

@IDH_Cologne @prometheus_bildarchiv

#ComputationalLinguistics #SentimentAnalysis

Hackaday [Unofficial]Apr 15

AI For The Skeptics: Attempting To Do Something Useful With It

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/04/15/ai-for-the-skeptics-attempting-to-do-something-useful-with-it/

13 Apr 15

AI For The Skeptics: Attempting To Do Something Useful With It https://hackaday.com/2026/04/15/ai-for-the-skeptics-attempting-to-do-something-useful-with-it/
#ArtificialIntelligence #HackadayColumns #Ai #Computationallinguistics #LocalAI #Sentimentanalysis

AI For The Skeptics: Attempting To Do Something Useful With It

There are some subjects as a writer in which you know they need to be written, but at the same time you feel it necessary to steel yourself for the inevitable barrage of criticism once your work re…

Hackaday

DiSC_uibk Apr 7

Recently, guest speaker Mari Hatavara from Tampere University gave us some fascinating insights into Finnish politics by drawing upon approaches from interdisciplinary narrative theory and computational modeling based on linguistic features. 🧐

If you missed it, you can watch the recording here: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-hatavara/ It will be available until the end of April.

#ComputationalLinguistics #NarrativeTheory #NLP #PoliticalScience #Linguistics #interdisciplinary