Discursive construction of the 'scholar' identity: a critical genre analysis of chinese and english academic biographies. [PDF]
Liu S.
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Human tests for machine models: What lies “Beyond the Imitation Game”?
Abstract Benchmarking large language models (LLMs) is a key practice for evaluating their capabilities and risks. This paper considers the development of “BIG Bench,” a crowdsourced benchmark designed to test LLMs “Beyond the Imitation Game.” Drawing on linguistic anthropological and ethnographic analysis of the project's GitHub repository, we examine ...
Noya Kohavi, Anna Weichselbraun
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Validating explicit rating tasks for measuring pronunciation biases: A case study of ING variation. [PDF]
Li A, Tamminga M.
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Abstract This paper asks how LLM‐based systems can produce text that is taken as contextually appropriate by humans without having seen text in its broader context. To understand how this is possible, context and co‐text have to be distinguished. Co‐text is input to LLMs during training and at inference as well as the primary resource of sense‐making ...
Ole Pütz
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Nonhuman situational enmeshments—How participants build temporal infrastructures for ChatGPT
Abstract This paper investigates how participants recruit Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT as interactional co‐participants depending on their temporal enmeshment within an interactional flow. Using Charles Goodwin's co‐operative action framework, we analyze video data of human–AI interaction to trace the temporal structures established by ...
Nils Klowait, Maria Erofeeva
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It's Not Written All Over My Face: Constructing Chronic Pain as Invisible in Pain Clinic Consultations and Interviews. [PDF]
Declercq J.
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Abstract From the beginning of widespread public interactions with ChatGPT and other large language models, some users have seen the disfluencies of chatbots as opportunities for them to go on an archaeological search for an unfettered chatbot persona that they need to jailbreak. These are not claims of sentience, but rather of personhood.
Courtney Handman
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Orientation towards the vernacular and style-shifting as language behaviours in speech of first-generation Polish migrant communities speaking Norwegian in Norway. [PDF]
Malarski K +4 more
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Contested heritage landscapes for Arabic language learning in a postcolonial France
Abstract This article analyzes the contested and multiple meanings of “heritage” that emerge for advanced Arabic language learners in a postcolonial France. A linguistic life histories approach reveals a fraught duality of privileged access and exclusionary adversity for heritage students of Arabic.
Chantal Tetreault +2 more
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Ethical Practices for Gaining Access for Research with Deaf Communities in South Africa: A Case of South African Sign Language. [PDF]
Sibanda P, Loth CR, Siyavoshi S.
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