MDS Spotlight: Meet Michelle Yun, MDS Computational Linguistics, Class of 2023
After completing her Bachelor of Arts in Speech Sciences from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Michelle Yun had planned on pursuing a master’s in speech-language pathology. However, Yun became intrigued by UBC’s Master of Data Science (MDS) in Computational Linguistics. Read More.
MDS Spotlight: Meet Kai Maurin-Jones, MDS Computational Linguistics, Class of 2023
Kai Maurin-Jones was looking for a Master’s program that combined his interests in linguistics and quantitative methodologies and found that the MDS Computational Linguistics program was a perfect fit. Read More.
Stanley Nam wins best student presentation award at ICKL 23
Happy to share that our PhD student Stanley Nam has won a “best student presentation” award at the 23rd Biennial Meeting of The International Circle of Korean Linguistics (ICKL 23; see https://sites.google.com/view/ickl2023/home), for his paper “Unsupervised learning of sub-lexica in Korean.” Congratulations, Stanley!
Raiane Salles’ successful PhD defense
Congratulations to the new Dr. Raiane Salles, for a successful PhD defense today! The thesis is entitled “Functional categorization parameters: Argumenthood with functional heads other than D in Carioca Brazilian Portuguese and Pirahã.” Dr. Salles was supervised by Dr. Lisa Matthewson, with committee members Dr. Hotze Rullmann and Dr. Martina Wiltschko (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Also […]
Zara Khalaji Pirbaluti wins best poster presentation
Congratulations to MA student Zara Khalaji Pirbaluti, who won Best Poster Presentation at the UBC Language Sciences Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Research Day last Friday, for the poster “French Liaison’s Exceptionality: A Learning Account.” Great work, Zara!
New publication: Vowel space reduction in Alzheimer’s Disease
Curious about how neurodegenerative diseases affect vowel space? Check out the newest publication from the ISRL lab. ABSTRACT: Reduced vowel space area (VSA) is a known effect of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease (PD). Using large publicly available corpuses, two experiments were conducted comparing the vowel space of speakers with and without Alzheimer’s disease […]
Ife Adebara and Prof Abdul-Mageed featured in UBC News
Our PhD student, Ife Adebara, along with Prof. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, was featured in a UBC News article recently. Have a read if you are curious about NLP applications for low-resource languages. See here for more: https://news.ubc.ca/2023/02/21/ubc-scholar-helping-ai-overcome-its-language-barrier/ Congratulations, Ife and Muhammad!
MDS-CL project featured in NASA article
We have big news! One of the 2021 MDS-CL cohort student capstone projects (completed in May-June 2022) was recently featured in an article by NASA! Check out the main story here: https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/our-impact/story/university-students-use-reddit-help-nasa-find-landslides Image credit: NASA In case you are curious, the MDS-CL program is an intensive 10-month professional program, and the last course of […]
MDS Spotlight: Meet Saffrin Granby, MDS Computational Linguistics, Class of 2022
Before joining the UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) Computational Linguistics program, Saffrin Granby was finishing her Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Systems at UBC where she specialized in Computer Science. In addition, during her undergraduate degree, Granby was working at the CANARY lab at UBC where she worked on using linguistic features to detect […]
Meet Nihal D’Souza, MDS Computational Linguistics, Class of 2022
It was Nihal D’Souza’s fascination with the advancements in human-machine interaction through natural language that sparked his interest in the field of computational linguistics. In particular, the application of machine translation, sentiment analysis, and computational morphology. Read More.