Laurence Anthony

I'm happy to say AntConc 4.3.0 for Win, MacOS, and Linux is now released, including the new ChatAI feature from recent beta versions. ChatAI allows you to interact with various LLMs and get insights on traditional corpus results. I hope you like it! laurenceanthony.net/software/antco…

@perezparedes @CL2025Conf Thank you! I think our two plenaries went together really well, and they both connected nicely with the others, too. Looking forward to continuing the discussion we had over coffee.

@antlabjp @CL2025Conf An excellent plenary @antlabjp !!!!

Can't believe one week has already passed since the end of the @CL2025Conf. This year, I had the great honor of serving as one of the plenary speakers, giving my talk on AI and corpus linguistics in a really lovely venue. Big thanks to all the organisers. #CL2025

@balamri17 Thank you for coming! I hope you found my talk useful.

A thought-provoking plenary: Anthony explored questions about LLM & AI by building on insights gained from over half a century of corpus linguistics research combined with knowledge of machine learning, natural language processing, and recent AI innovations. @antlabjp #cl2025

@mrkm_a Wow. That's a lovely photo! It was a great honor to be a plenary speaker at the conference. Going from the reactions, it seems that my talk generated quite a bit of discussion and debate about the role of AI in corpus linguistics. Let's hope the debate continues!

Day 3 of #CL2025 concludes with a plenary speech by @antlabjp, titled ‘Stochastic parrots meet corpus linguists: understanding language in the age of AI.’ The event takes place at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University.

Our paper on AI applications in vocabulary testing is finally out!

@DrCrosthwaite Hi. It was very good. We got to hear a keynote from @satyanadella and I then talked to various teams, including the GitHub group, Startup support group, and AMD. I really should post something here on LinkedIn about the event. Definitely recommended.

@antlabjp how did it go?

Arriving early for the start of the Microsoft AI Tour here in Tokyo. A great way to finish my sabbatical year, where I focused my research, talks, and app development on this revolutionary technology.

A bit late, but I’m currently in Erlangen, Germany, enjoying the first day of a @rc21project.bsky.social symposium. It was a great honor to open the event with a talk on AI integration with concordance methods, focusing on new #AntConc functions.

Happy to announce our paper on vocab testing using AI was just accepted by the CALL journal. My first collaboration with @Jeffrey51122028, @AaronOlafBatty, Keita Nakamura, Christopher Nicklin, @StuartM13041063, and Kanako Tomaru. The preprint is here: researchgate.net/publication/38…

Today was my first day back at @waseda_univ, where I had the pleasure of hosting Nathan Wang, the CTO of the educational AI company @EdexiaAi (YC W25). Very much enjoyed discussing the role of AI in education and hearing about the company's plans.

Back in Japan after a fantastic half year sabbatical at UQ. Good news is that I'll be continuing my connection as a visiting scholar until 2028, serving as a consultant and developer for the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) project. ldaca.edu.au

@JhoanaUQ @ronautic @DrCrosthwaite It was great to visit your class. I very much enjoyed meeting you all.

@antlabjp @ronautic @DrCrosthwaite Thank you for showing up in our classroom on Wednesday! It was really special to put a face on the antconc software and also hear your perspective on corpus linguistics

Last day of my sabbatical at the University of Queensland. I’ve had such a great time in Brisbane. It’s a really lovely city. Huge thanks to @ronautic and @DrCrosthwaite for being such great hosts, and to everyone else I’ve met during my time here for being so welcoming.

Very much enjoyed attending the Brisbane AWS User Group this evening. Great talk by @markpromnitz and a great atmosphere in the AWS offices. Nice getting to know Bill McKeague, too.

@perezparedes Great to hear that! The DeepSeek-R1:8b runs so smoothly on my very old MacBook M1 Pro. It's quite amazing how powerful these machines are and how lightweight and powerful the model is.

@antlabjp Fab, thanks @antlabjp this is so useful!!!!!

For anyone interested in my recent seminar on running DeepSeek-R1 and other open-source/open weight AI models locally, I have now created a public GitHub repo that includes all the slides, demo files, and a complete tutorial. I hope you find it useful! github.com/laurenceanthon…

@mettalrose You're very welcome! I hope to add a section on fine tuning local models soon.

Excellent resource! Thank you as always @antlabjp

@hjengir69 You're very welcome! I'm planning to continually revise and expand the tutorial. If you have any suggestions, feel free to post them via the 'Issues' tab in the repo.

@antlabjp Thank you for sharing.

Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation today at the Queensland Govt. AI Community of Practice. The topic of running DeepSeek-R1 and other AI models seems very timely as we had a huge turnout—300 people! I'll be making the slides and materials publicly available soon.

@leighmcdowell Hi! Can you message me the details?

@antlabjp Brizzy’s great, isn’t it. When you return to Japan, would you be interested in coming to Nara in December for the NaraJALT conference and sharing with us your knowledge on AI, LLMs, and what it all means for language education moving forward?

For anyone with a .gov.au email, I’ll be giving a talk on “Local, private, portable AI: Getting started with DeepSeek-R1 and other open weight models” on Feb 10 (Mon), 2025 for the QLD Govt. Customer and Digital Group (QGCDG) as part of its AI Community of Practice series.