Tristan Miller @Logological@mastodon.social

Babel: The Language Magazine, and the entire Linguistics Department that produces it, are under threat of closure due to cutbacks at the University of Huddersfield. If you follow my column in the magazine (or even if you don't), please consider writing to Vice-Chancellor Bob Cryan to voice your opposition to the cuts. Further details: https://twitter.com/HuddLinguistics/status/1536638728923451393 https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/education/university-of-huddersfield-announce-37-redundancies-in-arts-and-humanities-departments-3732315

I'm amazed at the cheek of this 1980s #font company. Their advertisements focus solely on their claim that their fonts feature "true descenders" but include an "actual size" font sample very clearly showing the exact opposite. #C64 #typography

Our little kitchen assistants are always happy to help clean up after accidents.

Tomorrow I'll be speaking about revitalizing #Usenet at the online #LibrePlanet 2022 conference: https://libreplanet.org/2022/speakers/#5812 Hope you'll register and join me there!

Our #EMNLP2021 workshop paper on style-conditioned poetry generation has just been published: https://aclanthology.org/2021.latechclfl-1.7/

Hooray, I just watched my 2000th movie! But why oh why did it have to be this insufferable trainwreck? #GreyGardens

For the first time in over ten years, I've managed to clear my #email inbox. Please direct all congratulatory messages to dev.null@example.org. ;)

I remember way back when Jeff Bezos actually had to explain who he was when he sent me e-mails. #Amazon

I've set up my own #Gemini server, which is sort of like #Gopher on steroids. Grab a client (if you don't already have one) and check out my capsule: gemini://gemini.logological.org/

I've redesigned my website: https://logological.org/ Still needs some polishing but overall is much shinier than the previous version.

Two research articles of mine just got cited in a paper called "How Did This Get Funded?! Automatically Identifying Quirky Scientific Achievements". Still wondering what I should make of this… 😏

"Three Spanish universities" want my views on #SciHub after telling me that using it is like attacking ships on the high seas, seizing their cargo, and kidnapping and murdering their crew. 🙄

I'm currently co-hosting an AMA on Reddit as part of the Big-8 Management Board. Stop by and ask us anything about #Usenet! https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/nn4vp8/were_the_usenet_big8_management_board_ask_us/

The Dmitri Borgmann #SatorSquare mystery has been solved, by none other than palindromist extraordinaire Mark Saltveit! His response to my article has just appeared in Notes & Queries: https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjab073 #palindrome

Reading for my morning commute today #C64 #ArtifcialIntelligence #retrocomputing

I got interviewed by the German tech magazine 1E9 about #AI, computational humour, and stand-up #comedy: https://1e9.community/t/topic/9657

I'm co-organizing a webinar on #Humor and #ArtificialIntelligence on May 21, 2021. We'll present an overview of past and current approaches to computational humour, focuing on computer-assisted translation, commonsense reasoning, and neuro-symbolic integration. The webinar will conclude with a roundtable discussion with the audience on the ethics of humour and AI. Further details and registration: http://humorstudies.org/WebinarCenter.htm

Well, my ERC Starting Grant application is finally out of the way. With a 12% acceptance rate, it's unlikely that anything will come of it, but I will graciously consider the mere act of my submitting it to be a success worthy of celebration. :)

Tomorrow I'll be giving an invited research seminar at the University of Huddersfield's Department of #Linguistics and Modern Languages. My talk will cover challenges and technological solutions to the #translation of humorous #wordplay in literary texts. The seminar will be held online via Zoom; attendance is free with advance registration. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-tristan-miller-on-human-computer-interaction-in-pun-translation-tickets-136435172273

An alliterative #pangram is a sentence that contains all the letters of the alphabet and where every word starts with the same letter:

Impawning idols infrequently inject Izhevsk ibexes.

Anyone got further examples? More hints here: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6002&context=wordways