The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling
The researcher had a need to communicate their ideas for publication in a scientific journal. I was commissioned to create clear and inviting illustrations that effectively communicate the concepts. Link to publication: https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2024.1472411
Client
University of BirminghamCreative Field
IllustrationProject Type
Information Material/Publications, Medical/Scientific IllustrationTechnique
Digital, Vector
This figure illustrates how training language models on corpora that accurately represent the target variety of language including its internal structure

This figure illustrates the concept of a variety of language, showing how the interaction between three distinct extra-linguistic factors—dialect, register and period.

This figure presents a corpus as a representative sample of texts taken from a given variety of language

This figure illustrates how an understanding of the sociolinguistic structure of varieties of languages can inform the adaptation of language models.
