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.
Meet Oksana Kurylo, MDS Computational Linguistics, Class of 2022
Oksana Kurylo’s journey to UBC’s Master of Data Science (MDS) in Computational Linguistics program began when she took a course on Computational Linguistics by Andriy Romanyuk while getting her Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from the Lviv Polytechnic National University. Read More.
Kenna McEwan joins as the new Graduate Program Assistant
Please welcome our new Graduate Program Assistant, Kenna McEwan. Kenna graduated last month with a BA in Linguistics, minor in Education Psychology and Special Education, having made the Dean’s List and being awarded the UBC Arts Graduating Leader Award. She served as President of the Speech and Linguistics Student Association (SALSA) for the past year, […]
Marianne Huijsmans will join U of Alberta
Great news! UBC linguistics PhD Student Marianne Huijsmans will be joining the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta as an Assistant Professor next year! Big congratulations, Marianne!
Marianne Huijsmans receives the Community-University Engagement Support fund
Congratulations to Linguistics PhD student Marianne Huijsmans, who is one of six Faculty of Arts recipients of the Community-University Engagement Support fund, for a community project on “Reviewing, enriching, and sharing an ʔayʔaǰuθəm e-dictionary.” The community partner is Jacqueline Mathieu, of the Klahoose First Nation. The funding is paid directly to community partners, and is […]
PhD alumna Heather Bliss wins CLA early career researcher award
Heather Bliss, who graduated from the doctoral program in 2013 and is currently a lecturer at Simon Fraser University, has been selected to receive the Canadian Linguistic Association Early Career Researcher Award. She was recognized for achievements in research across subfields and community engagement.
UBC electronically hosts Northwest Linguistics Conference
UBC linguistics is hosting (virtually) the 37th annual Northwest Linguistics Conference this weekend, from May 14–16, 2021! Plenary speakers include Dr. Miikka Silfverberg, Dr. Neda Todorović, and Samuel Akinbo.
Nicolai and Lo win international pronunciation prediction competition
Garrett Nicolai and Roger Lo have won the SIGMORPHON Shared Task on Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion for low-resource languages. The challenge was to develop a computational system that predicts the pronunciation of words from their spelling. Their submission trained on Adyghe, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Khmer, Latvian, Maltese, Romanian, Slovene, and Welsh.