Christoph Purschke

Neue Abkürzung dann DACHBILL-Prinzip

Die Herausforderung, die ich durchgehend mit solchen Vorschlägen habe, ist, dass sie zugänglich zeitnah effizient zusammengebastelt werden, selten aber einverstanden oder etwa optimal sind, sondern meistens beträchtlich heiße Luft schaufeln, um maßgeblich zu wirken.

This week, we have another fantastic speaker lined up in our talk series, Martina Heßler from Darmstadt. She will discuss new forms of unknowingness in the context of software bugs. The talk will be in German.

Join us on site or online, 20.11.2015, 16 CET

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Oh, they’re so gonna regret that name when the kids start looking for restaurants. The place came before the meme, though.

Super, Felicitatioun!

Yours look super as well! Baking has helped with keeping me sane in academia for over 10 years now :)

It’s mostly rye but has a fraction of wheat in it (70/30). Upper right is spelt only, bottom rye only.

Looks like I’m finally back to breadmaking… with a couple of my own recipes on display.

Capriccio: Warum KI kein Bairisch versteht - hier anschauen Künstliche Intelligenz verändert die Sprache, denn sie übernimmt nicht nur unser Vokabular, sondern prägt auch andersherum unsere Ausdrucksweise. Nur mit Dialekten tut sich die KI nachweislich schwer,...

🎥 @barbaraplank.bsky.social, Hinrich Schütze, and I were featured on tv, talking about how AI tools struggle with dialects!
www.ardmediathek.de/video/capric...

And by the missing -r- in „structuration“ you can see that structures in the debate are a bit shaky, as is national identity, apparently…

Took me a while, but here it is:

Discourse figures in the Luxembourg language debate (2015-2020)

This is a multi-method analysis of the latest wave in the public debate on multilingualism. It focuses on the role of different social groups & recurring linguistic figures for discourse structuation.

Siehst du den Fehler, den ich sehe, auf der Titelseite?

VarDial @ EACL 2026, with important dates (see next post for text version). Photo CC-0.

VarDial 2026 will be colocated with @eaclmeeting.bsky.social! We're looking forward to your papers on NLP for similar languages, varieties and dialects :)

Deadline: Dec 19 (Jan 2 for pre-reviewed ARR papers)
sites.google.com/view/vardial...

Love the manuscript mountains inside

Starke Ulf Poschardt-Vibes links (bei der Recherche zum neuen Bestseller „Quarzit-Bürgertum“)

Watch out for the next talk by @dirkhovy.bsky.social. It approaches the question of the human condition in a digitally enriched lifeworld from a new perspective, considering the role of „AI“ in particular.

Join us on site or via Webex, 9.10.2025, 16:00 CEST.

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This today. Come say hi on Webex to hear me talk about language, technology and cultural regression.

🚨 Are you looking for a PhD in #NLProc dealing with #LLMs?
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@uni.lu is on here as well.

Regierungsvertreter in Luxemburg behaupten immer mal wieder, dass LU kein deutschsprachiges Land sei. Dazu passt, das DEU kaum aktive Domänen im Land hat. Die aktuelle Regierung hat das beglaubigt, indem sie den Deutschunterricht nicht mehr als erstsprachlich, sondern als fremdsprachlich ausrichtet.

I would like to announce our upcoming conference “Algorithmic (Dis-)Orders: Law and Culture in Transition”, taking place on 22–23 September 2025 at EHESS, Paris, organized by Jean Lassègue and myself.

Your source is „Superunknown“ (1994) news to me.

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I know the feeling 🤭

In meinem Umfeld heißt sowas, aus ähnlichen Gründen, ein „Bifi-Moment“.

Today seems like a good day for a shameless self plug of our hallucination article (with @sufo.bsky.social ) where we explain how the term is used in LLM documentation to relieve creators of the responsibility of spreading misinformation, lies and falsities
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We know it’s early, but save the dates for the upcoming CuCo Lab Conversations! We have some fantastic speakers lined up for you, including @dirkhovy.bsky.social, Martina Heßler and @bildoperationen.bsky.social. And then there’s this guy: @questoph.bsky.social.

cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...

Some seven years ago, when visiting the IDS for the first time as part of the workshop „Desktop oder App“, we left this little note next to the entrance door. Looks like our merch is pretty persistent in the linguistic landscape ✌️

This week, Lingscape is visiting @idsmannheim.bsky.social, where we are exchanging ideas with a growing community of language researchers who are interested in participatory approaches. In this context, @questoph.bsky.social talks about our experiences from already nine years with Lingscape.