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Hi everyone! I've just completely updated my website to make it run quicker and hopefully easier to navigate. I hope you like the changes. If you notice any missing or broken links, do let me know. laurenceanthony.net

Hi everyone. It's a big honor to be giving a plenary at the CL2025 conference this year. If you're thinking of going, the deadline for regular submissions is Friday, Jan 17, 2025. Maybe I'll see you in Birmingham!

Hi everyone. Here's an event that I'll be presenting at in March 2025. I'll be talking about "AI-Assisted Concordancing: From Search Support to Pattern Profiling" where I'll demonstrate AI models runnning locally in #AntConc (no OpenAI account needed). dhss.phil.fau.eu/research/curre…

Happy to announce that I’ve just started a new contract position as an Educational AI Advisor for the Queensland Government. Many thanks to Marco Fahmi (Marco Fahmi) for setting this up. For anyone wondering, I'm still also a full-time professor at Waseda University in Japan!

For anyone with a .gov.au email, I’ll be giving a talk on “Local, private, portable AI: Getting started with DeepSeek-R1 and other open weight models” on Feb 10 (Mon), 2025 for the QLD Govt. Customer and Digital Group (QGCDG) as part of its AI Community of Practice series.

Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation today at the Queensland Govt. AI Community of Practice. The topic of running DeepSeek-R1 and other AI models seems very timely as we had a huge turnout—300 people! I'll be making the slides and materials publicly available soon.

For anyone interested in my recent seminar on running DeepSeek-R1 and other open-source/open weight AI models locally, I have now created a public GitHub repo that includes all the slides, demo files, and a complete tutorial. I hope you find it useful! github.com/laurenceanthon…

Very much enjoyed attending the Brisbane AWS User Group this evening. Great talk by Mark Promnitz and a great atmosphere in the AWS offices. Nice getting to know Bill McKeague, too.

Last day of my sabbatical at the University of Queensland. I’ve had such a great time in Brisbane. It’s a really lovely city. Huge thanks to Martin Schweinberger and Peter Crosthwaite for being such great hosts, and to everyone else I’ve met during my time here for being so welcoming.

Back in Japan after a fantastic half year sabbatical at UQ. Good news is that I'll be continuing my connection as a visiting scholar until 2028, serving as a consultant and developer for the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) project. ldaca.edu.au

Today was my first day back at 早稲田大学 Waseda University, where I had the pleasure of hosting Nathan Wang, the CTO of the educational AI company Edexia (YC W25). Very much enjoyed discussing the role of AI in education and hearing about the company's plans.

Happy to announce our paper on vocab testing using AI was just accepted by the CALL journal. My first collaboration with Jeffrey Stewart, Aaron Olaf Batty, Keita Nakamura, Christopher Nicklin, Stuart McLean, and Kanako Tomaru. The preprint is here: researchgate.net/publication/38…

A bit late, but I’m currently in Erlangen, Germany, enjoying the first day of a Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21).bsky.social symposium. It was a great honor to open the event with a talk on AI integration with concordance methods, focusing on new #AntConc functions.

Arriving early for the start of the Microsoft AI Tour here in Tokyo. A great way to finish my sabbatical year, where I focused my research, talks, and app development on this revolutionary technology.

Our paper on AI applications in vocabulary testing is finally out!