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Muhammad Abdul-Mageed research seminar: ‘Computational Linguistics in the UBC Deep Learning & NLP Lab’

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 […]

Peggy Speas colloquium

Peggy Speas of the University of Massachusetts Amherst will present a colloquium. Click to join the Zoom meeting. The passcode is 635410. (The meeting ID is 647 6334 5823.) Time and Evidence in Matses and in General Fleck (2007) characterizes the Panoan language Matses as having “one of the most intricate evidential systems ever described.” In […]

Northwest Linguistics Conference

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.

Colloquium – Amy Rose Deal (University of California, Berkeley)

Amy Rose Deal (University of California, Berkeley) will present a virtual colloquium on November 3rd 3:30-5pm, 2023. Title: Uncentered attitude reports Abstract: One of the major discoveries in attitude semantics over the last thirty years has been the fact that certain types of attitude reports require interpretation de se. This finding has prompted a move […]

Research Seminar – Kaili Vesik

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 […]

LinguisticsNOW Colloquium – Jessica Rett (UCLA)

LinguisticsNOW is a joint colloquia series hosted by the Department of Linguistics at UBC and Simon Fraser University that aims to bring the most exciting new work in linguistics to the Northwest. The speaker for this year’s edition of LinguisticsNOW is Jessica Rett (University of California, Los Angeles). The event will be held in-person at […]