Important tech tip for Slack users not sold on the new "design"
If you hard-refresh Slack Command-Shift-R, and then type Command-Shift-S, you get an extra vertical sidebar that disaggregates your individual slacks.
Thanks to @snarkout who has improved my life for the better, this day.
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What do we learn from modeling second language acquisition (SLA)? Read our paper for #ACL2023 to find out about the importance of *negative* transfer + which elements of child-directed speech do and don't survive in text-based language models + a bonus new multi-lingual CDS corpus.
Second language acquisition (SLA) research has extensively studied cross-linguistic transfer, the influence of linguistic structure of a speaker's native language [L1] on the successful acquisition of a foreign language [L2]. Effects of such transfer can be positive (facilitating acquisition) or negative (impeding acquisition). We find that NLP literature has not given enough attention to the phenomenon of negative transfer. To understand patterns of both positive and negative transfer between L1 and L2, we model sequential second language acquisition in LMs. Further, we build a Mutlilingual Age Ordered CHILDES (MAO-CHILDES) -- a dataset consisting of 5 typologically diverse languages, i.e., German, French, Polish, Indonesian, and Japanese -- to understand the degree to which native Child-Directed Speech (CDS) [L1] can help or conflict with English language acquisition [L2]. To examine the impact of native CDS, we use the TILT-based cross lingual transfer learning approach established by Papadimitriou and Jurafsky (2020) and find that, as in human SLA, language family distance predicts more negative transfer. Additionally, we find that conversational speech data shows greater facilitation for language acquisition than scripted speech data. Our findings call for further research using our novel Transformer-based SLA models and we would like to encourage it by releasing our code, data, and models.
The great problem with Democrats on trans rights is many are transphobic themselves. Not loudly or virulently. But they feel there's something "bad" or "wrong" about being trans, that people should only transition as a last resort, that most of us could stop it we really wanted to (or were forced to), and therefore, despite the horror stories from trans kids turned trans adults like me, trans kids and even adults should be held back "just in case."
That's why they're not loudly defending us.
Sentence of the day, copy-editing-whoops edition: "Players six years later are still finding new tricks to navigate the world and defeat enemies, particularly the ones in Japan." (I'm so excited for Tears of the Kingdom, though.)
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