Publications (4)
Assessing the potential of LLM-assisted annotation for corpus-based pragmatics and discourse analysis: The case of apology
Danni Yu, Luyang Li, Hang Su +1
Certain forms of linguistic annotation, like part of speech and semantic tagging, can be automated with high accuracy. However, manual annotation is still necessary for complex pra…
Whose Voice Counts? Mapping Stakeholder Perspectives on AI Through Public Submissions to the U.S. Government
Alina Karakanta, Alex Christiansen, Tomás Dodds +4
As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become more common in our daily lives, it is important to understand how different stakeholders comprehend and envisage the role that these…
The Sociolinguistic Foundations of Language Modeling
Jack Grieve, Sara Bartl, Matteo Fuoli +7
In this paper, we introduce a sociolinguistic perspective on language modeling. We claim that large language models are inherently models of varieties of language, and we consider…
Metaphor identification using large language models: A comparison of RAG, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning
Matteo Fuoli, Weihang Huang, Jeannette Littlemore +2
Metaphor is a pervasive feature of discourse and a powerful lens for examining cognition, emotion, and ideology. Large-scale analysis, however, has been constrained by the need for…