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🚨 Job alert in my group:
Want to do a PhD in Computational Linguistics working on figurative language (metaphor), on social media data, and in an interdisciplinary digital humanities environment, at one of the largest universities in Germany? Apply by March 30, 2026!
Contact me with any questions and please forward this to any suitable candidates 🤗 #linguistics #nlproc #joboffer #digitalhumanities #phdPosition #rub
https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f67b2069885e8908b2b3078b550e37a9d0bcc9e60

Researcher (75%, m/f/x) - Computational Linguistics

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Muhammad Shakir محمد شاکر Feb 13

@jtauber.com 90%

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Muhammad Shakir محمد شاکر Feb 13

@jtauber.com Used Gemini 2.5 Pro recently for grammatical classification (complement clause versus relative clause). Then reported the classification accuracy by looking at a 2% random sample (manually). That was the best way I could think of to incorporate LLM in the work flow.

Muhammad Shakir محمد شاکر Feb 1

AI agents social media
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2026/01/30/ai-agents-created-their-own-religion-crustafarianism-on-an-agent-only-social-network/

AI Agents Created Their Own Religion, Crustafarianism, On An Agent-Only Social Network

AI agents are now creating their own religion, talking about the self and investigating the nature of being. Everything is getting exceedingly weird.

Forbes

Muhammad Shakir محمد شاکر Feb 1

Tatjana Scheffler Jan 30

🤔 Wie können Daten aus sozialen Medien gesammelt, archiviert und für die Forschung genutzt werden? Hilft der DSA? Darf ich meine Korpora weitergeben und wie mache ich das am besten? -- Themen der "Social Media Access Days" im März an der @DNB_Aktuelles
Registrierung ist offen! Und ich bin auch dabei 🤗
#socialmedia #archivierung #korpora #tagung #linguistik #nfdi #forschungsdaten
https://www.dnb.de/EN/Professionell/Sammeln/Sammlung_Websites/SMAD2026/SocialMediaAccessDaysProgramm.html

SocialMediaAccessDaysProgramm

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Muhammad Shakir محمد شاکر May 4, 2025

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Muhammad Shakir محمد شاکر Feb 28, 2025

I presented a seminar

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Muhammad Shakir محمد شاکر Jan 18, 2025

@jtauber.com I am glad too

Muhammad Shakir محمد شاکر Jan 11, 2025

Andrea Nini Jan 10, 2025

My latest monograph, "A Theory of Linguistic Individuality for Authorship Analysis", is now open access! Download it for free:
http://andreanini.com/2025/01/10/a-theory-of-linguistic-individuality-now-fully-open-access/

“A Theory of Linguistic Individuality” now fully open access

My latest monograph, “A Theory of Linguistic Individuality for Authorship Analysis”, is now open access! You can download it for free here.

Dr Andrea Nini

Muhammad Shakir محمد شاکر Dec 26, 2024

I have been working on a Christmas present sent by my journal editor and two reviewers. How are your holidays going? #AcademicWriting #linguistics #corpuslinguistics