Muhammad Abdul-Mageed will present a research seminar titled ‘Computational Linguistics in the UBC Deep Learning & NLP Lab’. Click to join Zoom meeting. The passcode is 635410. (The meeting ID is 647 6334 5823.) Title: Computational Linguistics in the UBC Deep Learning & NLP Lab Abstract: Can we find a needle in a haystack? Probably not. Can we investigate human […]
Ife Adebara will present a research seminar titled ‘Translating the Unseen? Yorùbá→English MT in Low-Resource, Morphologically-Unmarked Settings’ Click to join Zoom meeting. The passcode is 635410. (The meeting ID is 647 6334 5823.) Translating the Unseen? Yorùbá→English MT in Low-Resource, Morphologically-Unmarked Settings Translating between languages where certain features are marked morphologically in one but absent or […]
UBC will host the 37th annual Northwest Linguistics Conference (NWLC). The NWLC is an annual conference, hosted on an alternating basis by Simon Fraser University, UBC, University of Victoria, and University of Washington. The conference is an opportunity for students to present their research, and make connections with their peers and other researchers.
Yurika Aonuki, a UBC distinguished alumnus and currently a doctoral student in linguistics at MIT, will give a Linguistics Outside the Classroom colloquium. The title of the talk is Degree semantics in Gitksan and Japanese.
Kaili Vesik will give a research seminar. Title: 74 constraints walk into a bar: Modeling acquisition with an eye to typology Abstract: Although phonological analysis and learning algorithms may be studied independently, additional insight can be gained when their intertwining and interdependent elements are taken into account. This work investigates how assumptions made about each […]
Members of the department will share their recent work in a series of 3-minute flash talks, with at most one question apiece. There will be an informal gathering afterwards for further discussion.
The LinguisticsNEW workshop brings together the linguistics departments at UBC and Simon Fraser University to discuss our recent work and generally build community. This year it will consist of two rounds of poster sessions. If you would like to present your work, submit an abstract here.
Northwest Linguistics Conference
LOC colloquium: Yurika Aonuki
Department research flash talks