@raybecker

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I was inspired by the The Daily Show's segment on Monday to write this post relating some work that I did a few years ago with Sabina Tabacaru on the meaning of the phrase "raising eyebrows". May 12th definitely raised some eyebrows https://open.substack.com/pub/raybecker/p/may-12th-definitely-raised-some-eyebrows?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
May 12th definitely raised some eyebrows

The phrase “raised eyebrows” is deceptively simple but semantically ambiguous given its meaning hinges on subtle contextual cues that both humans and AI systems often struggle to resolve.

Ray’s Substack
It was my last weekend with the amazing people at the Centre for Argument Technology. I learned so much about this interesting area of philosophy and computation corpus linguistics. Let's see what the future holds
The wildflowers in Dundee are in full bloom. I've never really noticed them before this summer. At least I got to enjoy them during my last week in Scotland (for now anyway)
New #Constructions paper out: "Individual differences in #productivity" by Anouk Van den Stock, Anne-Sophie Ghyselen, Peter Lauwers, Dirk Speelman, Timothy Colleman https://constructions.journals.hhu.de/article/view/659/689 (nb: DOI doesn't work yet, but it will soon)
View of Individual differences in productivity: intra- and extralinguistic determinants in evaluations of “creative” uses of grammatical patterns

Current state of grant writing
"The Shape of Stories in Art, Popular Culture, Everyday Life, and Science Writing" by James Cutting https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382020745_The_Shape_of_Stories_in_Art_Popular_Culture_Everyday_Life_and_Science_Writing
New report on two experiments on the topic of embodied cognition, visual search, and creativity by Soran Malaie, Michael Spivey, and Tyler Marghetis, "Divergent and Convergent Creativity Are Different Kinds of Foraging" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976241245695
Here's a really great new paper on symbolic/embodied cognition with a focus on event structure by John Hollander and Andrew Olney, "Raising the Roof: Situating Verbs in Symbolic and Embodied Language Processing" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.13442