New post: Tagging my blog with BERTopic and LLMs.
I suspect as token costs increase, we'll see more blended traditional ML/LLM systems. And, in general, they work really well!
vickiboykis.com/2026/05/18/t...
With big thanks to Alexey Koshevoy, @alexeykoshevoy.bsky.social Marie Hallo @marie-hl.bsky.social and Rowan Hall Maudslay!
"CLDF Meta" (meta.clld.org) links to data from over 800 CLDF datasets that have been released on Zenodo (e.g. WALS, APiCS and Grambank). There are links to data on over 9000 languoids, e.g. 98 entries on Ambulas (to take a random language). Great work by my colleague Johannes Englisch!
LLMs mean you still need a human in the loop, but in a different part
Claude down: Anthropic AI not working in major outage
Olivier Morin
Jeremy Noel-Tod
🚨New paper alert!🚨 In our new paper with @oliviermorin.bsky.social, Rowan Hall, and Marie Halo published in the Journal of Language Evolution, we explored the relationship between word length and ambiguity on a large-cross linguistic dataset. 1/6
