Event Category Archives: Featured Events

Colloquium – Kathryn Davidson (Harvard University)

Dr. Kathryn Davidson (Harvard University) will give a colloquium in person on March 15th 3:30-5:00pm, 2024. Title: Information structure insights from sign language anaphora Abstract: Notions of topic and focus have been well-studied in sign languages, which – like many spoken languages –  tend to have word orders highly influenced by information structural considerations, along with […]

QP presentations

QP presentations will be held on April 19th 1pm-2:30pm, 2024. The schedule is as follows: Kate- How questions in Changshanese Samir- Distilling a massively multilingual phonetic transcript database

Colloquium – David Mortensen (Carnegie Mellon University)

Dr. David Mortensen (Carnegie Mellon University) will give a colloquium online on September 20 – 3:30-5:00pm, 2024. To register please use the registration link.     Title: Extension is all you need (but sometimes good intensions help too)   Abstract: The philosophical distinction between intension and extension is relevant to many problems in mathematics and the sciences […]

Colloquium – Ginny Dawson (Western Washington University)

Ginny Dawson will deliver an in-person colloquium. The title and abstract are below. Nouns in classifier and non-classifier languages can mean the same thing: Evidence from Tiwa A longstanding question in formal semantics concerns the extent to which basic noun meanings vary across languages. That languages differ significantly in whether or not they have numeral […]

UBC MDS Computational Linguistics Alumni Panel

You are invited to join UBC Master of Data Science in Computational Linguistics alumni for a virtual information session on October 25, 2024 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm PT to learn more about the student experience in the UBC MDS Computational Linguistics program in Vancouver, British Columbia. At this live panel, MDS Computational Linguistics alumni will: […]

Research Seminar – Samantha Jackson

Samantha Jackson will present an in-person research seminar on Nov1.   Title: Take my word for it: Evaluations of scripted interview responses Abstract: With its need for a larger labour force and its well-known multicultural identity, Canada has become a popular destination for economic immigrants. However, the labour market outcomes and experiences of newcomers to […]

Research seminar: Scott Mackie

Dr. Scott Mackie (UBC) will give a research seminar in person on Nov 8.     Title: Exploring Amazon’s M.A.S.S.I.V.E dataset Abstract: MASSIVE (FitzGerald et al. 2023) is a large corpus of 1M+ sentences, created by translating ~20K English sentences into 49 other languages. To date, MASSIVE has only been used for machine learning tasks, […]

Paloma Jeretič virtual colloquium (at a special time)

Paloma Jeretič (University of Pennsylvania) will give a virtual colloquium via Zoom at 12:30 PM PST. To participate, register for it with Zoom. This process will result in you receiving a Zoom link. The additional nuisance is regrettable but necessary.   Title: Core Concepts and Indirect Alternatives: On the Anti-Duality of Quantifiers Authors: Paloma Jeretič, […]