MDS Spotlight: Meet Claudia Beth Ong, MDS Computational Linguistics, Class of 2024
As Claudia Beth Ong was completing her undergraduate degree, she stumbled across the UBC Master of Data Science Computational Linguistics program and discovered that its syllabus that focused on Natural Language Processing aligned with her career aspirations. Read Claudia’s story.
Ife successfully defended her dissertation
UBC Linguistics PhD candidate Ife Adebara successfully defended her dissertation in computational linguistics entitled Towards Afrocentric Natural Language Processing on January 23rd, 2024. Congratulations to Dr. Adebara! Great job! Ife’s primary advisor was Muhammad Abdul-Mageed at the Linguistics Department and the School of Information at UBC. Below is an abstract of Ife’s dissertation. Abstract: This […]
Grace Bengtson and Yadong Liu won best poster presentations
Congratulations to Grace Bengtson and Yadong Liu, our two winners of the Best Student Presentations Awards from this year’s Acoustics Week in Canada, held in Montreal 3-6 Oct 2023: Grace won for her presentation of “Tongue Adjustments in the Chest-Head Register Transition of Operatic Singers” and Yadong for “Timing of Perioral Muscle Suppression in Smiled […]
Mitchi and Starr selected as Public Scholar 2023/2024
The UBC Public Scholars Initiative (PSI) supports “UBC doctoral students whose research extended beyond the academy, and beyond traditional disciplinary approaches, to have a tangible impact for the public good through collaborative, action-oriented, and/or creative forms of scholarship in their dissertation work.” We are especially proud to say that *two* of this year’s PSI cohort […]
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 […]
Exciting new publications from the ISRL
The Integrated Speech Research Lab (ISRL), UBC is proud to share some exciting new publications in flagship journals, including Nature’s Scientific Reports. See below to learn more. Shamei, A., Sóskuthy, M., Stavness, I. et al. Postural adaptation to microgravity underlies fine motor impairment in astronauts’ speech. Sci Rep 13, 8231 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34854-w. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-34854-w de Boer, […]
Dr. Sóskuthy awarded Early Career Researcher Award 2023 by CLA
We are delighted to share that Dr. Márton (Marci) Sóskuthy has been awarded Early Career Researcher Award 2023 by the Canadian Linguistic Association. Huge congratulations, Dr. Sóskuthy!
Professor Garrett featured in Ubyssey
Happy to see our very own Professor Garrett Nicolai sharing his insights about ChatGPT with Ubyssey! For more on this, see here: https://ubyssey.ca/science/chatgpt-has-entered-the-chat-bringing-ubc-challenges-and-opportunities/
New publications
Hot out of the press! Two new publications by Prof. Chris Hammerly! Check below for more. Citation: Hammerly, C. (2023) A set-based semantics for person, obviation, and animacy. Language, 99(1), 38-80. Link: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/24/article/884309 Blurb: This paper provides an analysis that ties together three closely linked systems in Ojibwe: person (which distinguishes types of conversational participants), obviation (which makes […]