Tristan Miller @Logological@mastodon.social

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

A bit late to feed off the publicity for #Tenet, but Oxford's Notes & Queries has just published my paper on a series of mysterious #SatorSquare articles: https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjaa113 Open-access preprint: https://zenodo.org/record/4268041 #palindrome

Can you identify the following 22 #languages? Further details (and answers) are in my latest Language Games column in Babel: The Language Magazine: https://cloud.3dissue.com/18743/41457/106040/issue32/index.html?page=30

Thought macro processors were dead? Think again. :) My article on #GPP, the generic preprocessor (co-authored with Harvard's Denis Auroux) has just been published in the Journal of Open Source Software. https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.02400

What language is this text written in? More text and clues in my #LanguageGames puzzle in the May 2020 issue of Babel: The Language Magazine: https://cloud.3dissue.com/18743/41457/106040/issue31may/index.html?page=38 #linguistics

Sawbones, croakers, shrinks—English abounds with insulting terms for doctors. Now try your hand at identifying some German ones, courtesy of the late Reinhold Aman, in my latest @Babelzine puzzle, "Medical #Maledicta": https://cloud.3dissue.com/18743/41457/106040/issue30/index.html?page=24

My memorial article on Reinhold Aman, the world's foremost authority on #swearing, appears in the latest issue of #WordWays. https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5905&context=wordways #maledicta

Austrian public radio will be airing an interview with me today on #MachineTranslation of #humour as part of the Digital.Leben show on Österreich 1. The show starts at 16:55 CET and will be available online for one week thereafter: https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20200115#585743/Computer-verstehen-keinen-Spass

Happy #Giftmas to my fellow #C64 and #ferret enthusiasts!

How do linguists reconstruct words from long-lost languages? Find out, and try your own hand at it, in my latest #LanguageGames puzzle in Babel № 29! https://cloud.3dissue.com/18743/41457/106040/issue29/index.html?page=28