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.
PhD program grad Sonja Thoma interviewed about her work with Indigenous languages
Recent PhD program graduate Sonja Thoma has been working as a consultant and language coach on various projects in support of First Nations communities, and has been interviewed about this work on the Language Sciences site.
PhD alumnus John Lyon accepts tenure-track position at UBC-O
Doctoral program alumnus John Lyon has accepted an assistant professor position at UBC Okanagan in Indigenous Studies in the Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies.
Hannah Green and Roger Lo receive TA teaching award
Hannah Green and Roger Lo have been recognized for outstanding undergraduate teaching with this year’s department Excellence in Graduate Teaching Assistantship Award.