Iris van Rooij ðŸ’We're hiring for a TT assistant professor in computational social science this year, and linguistics is one of the areas we're particularly interested in!
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Aaron Steven White
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Associate professor of linguistics and computer science at the University of Rochester. Director of the FACTS.lab. Modular synths + DIY electronics. Cocktails.
CONCLUSION:
AI-as-engineering has been trespassing into cogsci, confusing us with decoys. The time is apt to reclaim the early conception of AI-as-theoretical-psychology. This means using AI as a theoretical tool; but we want to not fall in the trap of makeism again. 17/n
AI-as-engineering has been trespassing into cogsci, confusing us with decoys. The time is apt to reclaim the early conception of AI-as-theoretical-psychology. This means using AI as a theoretical tool; but we want to not fall in the trap of makeism again. 17/n
I'm looking to bring on ≥1 PhD student next year who's interested in working on computational models for inducing full-fledged logical forms from inference judgment datasets, with the aim of quantitatively comparing theories of natural language semantics in terms of their core representational assumptions.
If you are such a student, let's chat! (Scheduling link on my website: http://aaronstevenwhite.io/.) If you know such a student, send them my way!
Julian GroveNew work with @aaron : https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/007450.
There's been debate recently about the discrete versus gradient nature of factive presuppositions ('Jo knows X' ~> X): specifically, whether factive predicates support inferences that are on a par with entailments, insofar as they are all-or-nothing - or something a bit weaker, giving rise to a boost to the likelihood that X is true without putting it on a par with other types of semantically licensed inference.
Factivity, presupposition projection, and the role of discrete knowlege in gradient inference judgments - lingbuzz/007450
We investigate whether the factive presuppositions associated with some clause-embedding predicates are fundamentally discrete in nature - as classically assumed - or fundamentally gradient - as recen - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
Toddler (2;10) hasn’t gotten the memo on Condition A.
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B: You can get them [his shoes] on yourself.
C: No! You get them on myself!
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B: You can get them [his shoes] on yourself.
C: No! You get them on myself!
TFW you think you're going to have to prepare a course module from scratch but you discover that your past self produced far more extensive notes than you remembered.
One thing that makes reviewing for *ACL conferences in 2022 so tedious is having to say over and over: "Yeah. Cool idea. XYZ 1992 had it and then there were 20 years where people in the *ACL community built on it. What you're doing is still useful because it updates the idea for the LLM era; but you sure could have saved yourself a lot of mental labor if you had just read the literature."
In addition to the CS positions, we also have a tenure-track assistant professor position in our data science institute. We're particularly interested in recruiting someone with expertise in optimization theory and methods. https://www.sas.rochester.edu/dsc/about/jobs.html
Computer Science here at the University of Rochester has three tenure-track assistant professor positions available this year. One area we're specifically looking to hire in is AI/HCI, with a focus on NLP, core machine learning, neurosymbolic AI, or AR/VR. If this sounds like you, please consider applying! https://www.cs.rochester.edu/about/recruit.html
I'm taking PhD students in linguistics and/or computer science this year! (We offer joint degrees here at the University of Rochester, and students can apply to either department.)
If you are/know a student who might be interested in doing a PhD on document-level information extraction and/or decompositional approaches to the representation of complex events, consider applying/sending them my way!
Students can schedule meetings to chat about the position(s) at http://aaronstevenwhite.io/