@coopersensei
PhD, Specially Appointed Associate Professor @ Rikkyo University. From Yorkshire, been in Japan since 2010, interested in #corpuslinguistics, #machinelearning, #NLP... https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher-Cooper-3
๐๐ The Adam Kilgarriff Prize is open for applications. If you created a dictionary, corpus, or language tool, consider applying or sharing the opportunity.
#lexicography #NLP
kilgarriff.co.uk/prize/
Submitted ๐ซ ...now we wait๐ฌ
"instead of needing to already commit to a certain sample size, a researcher can simply keep going untill a certain evidence threshold (for either hypothesis) is reached."
johnnydoorn.github.io/BayesBookQua...
Concise introduction to Bayesian Inference:
johnnydoorn.github.io/BayesBookQua...
Claude: "Off the top of my head..."
...but you don't have a head
youtu.be/iitq4Zrphdk?...
Hannah Fry:
"there are certain situations where AI can do superhuman things but you know so can forklifts you know what I mean like we built tools that can do things that humans can't do for a really long time doesn't mean that they're godlike"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"For researchers and practitioners, there seems to be an interesting blend of excitement to experiment and publish and fear of missing out on the waves of GenAI."
- nice way to put this, FOMO in GenAI research
For doing things like searching for articles from one particular journal:
github.com/fabiobatalha...
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We've got a small oven, but my wife is into making bread, so it's a good one. It goes up to 300 degrees, so that probably helped. I think the secret is getting the oil hot first.
Yorkshire puddings. Definitely the first time I've made them in My 16 years in Japan, and maybe first time ever
Happy Pancake Day and Happy Chinese New Year. According to Claude it's the first time the 2 have aligned since 1953. The next time they align will be 2029.
If this works well in practice, sounds like an amazing tool:
Hu, N., Lu, X. & Hu, R. Developing fine-grained sense-aware lexical sophistication indices based on the CEFR levels of word senses. Behav Res 57, 226 (2025). doi.org/10.3758/s134...
GitHub too:
github.com/fulan233/cef...
If you're in and around Tokyo and interested in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), my department is hosting this event with featured speakers Prof. Makoto Ikeda and Dr. Barry Kavanagh. There will also be 10 CLIL-related poster presentations
www.rikkyo.ac.jp/events/2026/...
My class are making mini podcasts, so the questions are ones that are frequently used in a sample of transcripts that I collected from podcasts.
It's a simple one. Take a card with a question on it and you have to use the question naturally in a 5 minute conversation with your group. If they think you used the question on the card, they can call you out on it. If you use your question "undetected", you succeed. It actually worked very well
I used an activity in class today that I learned in my first intensive TEFL course, but had never used before. It was swilling around for 17 years and I finally found a use for it.
Getting my new slides in shape. I have it on good authority that the typeface I have chosen is "woke" (aka sans serif)
Some songs I've been listening to over the last 3 months, not necessarily released or discovered by me in the last 3 months...
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Always doing academic writing with the ghosts of reviewers past on my shoulders... ๐ป
Some light winter reading...
University of Hong Kong professor steps down from associate deanship after AI-generated references scandal
hongkongfp.com/2025/12/18/u...
Maybe these ChatGPT adverts on social media don't give us the full insight into what the models are most useful for
Itโs been fun while it lasted: โPurdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students demonstrate basic competency in artificial intelligence starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.โ
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.
I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.
I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-7dir8-...
On this weekโs Lost in Citations podcast, I am pleased to share my conversation with Dr. Akira Murakami from the University of Birmingham, who is an expert in #corpuslinguistics, statistics, and quantitative methodology. (1/3)
[Strong Message Here] AI Hallucinations (with Stewart Lee and Sarah Wynn-Williams) #strongMessageHere
podcastaddict.com/strong-messa... via @PodcastAddict
Link to the paper:
Towards more appropriate modelling of linguistic complexity measures: Beyond traditional regression models
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (3/3)
The podcast includes some great โbehind-the-scenesโ of the paper chat, and chat on various topics including Bayesian statistics, various statistical models, the EFCamDat corpus, and simulation data. (2/3)
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-7dir8-...
On this weekโs Lost in Citations podcast, I am pleased to share my conversation with Dr. Akira Murakami from the University of Birmingham, who is an expert in #corpuslinguistics, statistics, and quantitative methodology. (1/3)