Nathan Schneider

Today, the ACL Anthology switched to a new system for how author pages work. From now on, ORCID iDs will be the main mechanism for matching papers to the correct author. 🧵⤵️

@haspelmath Evidence of disagreement on what to call existential-sentence BE in English: x.com/complingy/stat…

What is a “copula”, and what is “predicative inflection”? This new blogpost continues the comparison between the comparative concepts of Creissels et al. (2026) (in Bertinetto et al. 2026) and those of Haspelmath (2025): dlc.hypotheses.org/3865

@jammacleod1 Accepting applications here!: apply.interfolio.com/170055

Rolling applications beginning this Friday, July 11: Post Doctoral Associate - Empirical Approaches to Legal Interpretation (start date Fall 2025). Details below!

Happy to share that our paper, "Natural Language Processing RELIES on Linguistics," will appear in Computational Linguistics! Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2405.05966

📣 New Paper ⚖️🧑‍⚖️🏛️ Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don't Take Their Word for It 👩‍⚖️🏛️⚖️ with @BRwaldon, @complingy, Amir Zeldes, and @kevin_tobia papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

@CogCompNeuro What's the difference between the Feb 17 and Feb 20 deadlines for 8-page papers?

Our website has more detailed guidelines on submission and now also has files for the new templates: 2025.ccneuro.org/paper-submissi… All dates are on our website too: 2025.ccneuro.org/dates-and-dead…

For CCN2025 in Amsterdam, we will, for the first time, have conference proceedings that include both full length peer-reviewed papers and the traditional 2-page track! Key dates for authors: 17th February for full papers & 10th April for 2 pagers.

@yuvalmarton @DailySyntaxTree I think "whom" refers to EJ (so "whom alongside Billy Joel" can be considered the plural subject) but I'm not sure it is a syntactic modifier of EJ. It follows a comma and seems to be an elaboration/supplement.

@complingy @DailySyntaxTree Well, I didn’t know the other two.. (or forgot). But this issue with “EJ docu” is NOT NP-external semantics. It’s syntactic: the wh clause modifies EJ (and Billy Joel) but is not its dep/sister node. Conversely, EJ is extracted from “EJ docu” with a mechanism I’m not familiar w/

Tree of the day pls @complingy 😈

@yuvalmarton @DailySyntaxTree Interesting, I didn't know the term "picture noun"; it looks like it comes from Binding Theory: lingref.com/cpp/tls/2004/p… There are also concepts like "shell noun" and "transparent noun". Here, NP-external morphosyntax can be sensitive not just to the head noun but its dependent.

@complingy @DailySyntaxTree Yes, I agree. I referred to “Elton John documentary” which I guess is a sort of a picture noun? (A sort unfamiliar to syntax-rusty me) “Elton John” is the first conjunct in spite of being buried in the larger NP. In fact the whole whom-clause *functionally* modifies only “EJ”

@yuvalmarton @DailySyntaxTree I think "alongside" is being interpreted like "and" with respect to subject-verb agreement.

@complingy @DailySyntaxTree For (b-c) “are”(pl.) refers to both Elton John and Billy Joel imo. I half expected you to do tree gym to extract these proper nouns or their traces to a position nicely c-commanding “whom” (with a conjunction?), or otherwise explain how this is licensed 🤷‍♂️

@yuvalmarton "absolute two favorite artists" is an odd ordering too! Here's what I've got for the CGEL-style tree. CC: @DailySyntaxTree

@yuvalmarton Wow that's quite a use of "whom"! (a) It's a subject so "who" would be expected, (b) it's anaphoric to a dependent of its head rather than the head itself, (c) I would have expected singular agreement in the relative clause but it's plural.

@linguistMasoud I'll see you there! Also have a course

NASSLLI 2025 website: nasslli25.shane.st

Excited to teach a course on "Language Learning in Humans and Machines" at the North American Summer School for Logic, Language and Information (NASSLLI 2025) this summer (June 23-27) at the University of Washington! 🎉 Join us if interested!

Ph.D. deadline is *Dec. 1*. "Current research priorities include computational psycholinguistics, computational models of discourse, and linguistics-based language modeling." Ph.D. admits are offered a full funding package.

Also note that Georgetown is accepting applications for M.S. & Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics (core faculty: Ethan Wilcox @weGotlieb, Amir Zeldes, and myself). Announcement: @list.elra.info/thread/NHERMXBSAGUQH75SNVZK5NC4AMRKKWZQ/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">list.elra.info/mailman3/hyper…

It's graduate applications season! See below for two resources that people have found useful: - Blog post on writing a Ph.D. statement of purpose - List of many North American linguistics departments with computational/NLP research #NLProc #CompLing #phdchat

@GrammarTable @jamesshewmaker Also "watch TV"—one never "sees TV". It's almost like a compound; or we could say "to TV-watch". (Linguists call this noun incorporation.)

@GrammarTable @jamesshewmaker BUT, perhaps "watch cartoons" is a collocation, and thus more idiomatic in general than "see cartoons".

Reporter ______ (saw, watched) cartoons for 24 hours. See what he learned (This question is based on a news headline I encountered earlier today)