With #ChatGPT still making news, we decided to highlight some of the pieces from our vault on language models.

Check out “Digital Humanities and Natural Language Processing: Je t’aime... Moi non plus” by Barbara McGillivray, Thierry Poibeau & Pablo Ruiz Fabo which focuses on more collaboration between #DH datasets and #NLP tools:
http://digitalhumanities.org:8081/dhq/vol/14/2/000454/000454.html

See Diego Jiménez–Badillo et al.’s work titled “Developing Geographically Oriented NLP Approaches to Sixteenth–Century Historical Documents: Digging into Early Colonial Mexico” exploring how #NLP and other #computational approaches can be applied to understand large #historical #corpuses:

http://digitalhumanities.org:8081/dhq/vol/14/4/000490/000490.html

Cross-boost (excerpts) from
v buckenham (@v21@🐦.com)

there is a real fear among #AI researchers that the last big #corpuses of human written #text have already been captured. all future scrapes of the internet for text to learn from will be contaminated by machine-speak.
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funny to think of a time when generated text is recognizable due to it's use of typically 2020-ish #speech patterns and references. a cultural fixed point new models start from...

Link: https://twitter.com/v21/status/1490297801569353729