UBC NACLO participant wins bronze in International Linguistics Olympiad
Kevin Yan, a high school student who participated in UBC NACLO in February 2022 has won a bronze medal in the International Linguistics Olympiad. Congratulations, Kevin on this great achievement! Also, thanks to Kaili Vesik and and Yadong Liu who took the lead as this year’s local organizers of the first round. To learn more […]
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.
Joanne Francis passed away
We sadly mourn the passing of Joanne Francis. Joanne was our Field Methods consultant for ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Comox-Sliammon) in 2016-17 and has contributed greatly to our work on the language since then (many of our students have worked with her extensively). Joanne will be dearly missed.
Linguistics summer camp
We are excited to announce that the Linguistics Summer Camps are back this summer! It will be from July 4 to September 2 on the lawn outside of Totem Field Studios. We will be running the Fun with English Language camp and a new camp called Language Detectives. This is the first time the camp […]
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, […]
New publication
Another exciting paper: Matthewson, Lisa, Neda Todorovic and Michael Schwan 2022. Future time reference and viewpoint aspect: Evidence from Gitksan. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.6341 Congratulations to the research team! https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/6341/
“Nobody’s Perfect”: New paper out
New paper out by Bertrand, Aonuki, Chen, Davis, Gambarage, Griffin, Huijsmans, Matthewson, Reisinger, Rullmann, Salles, Schwan, Todorovic, Trotter & Vander Klok (2022). Nobody’s Perfect. Languages 2022, 7, 148. Impressive teamwork! Congratulations! https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020148 https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/7/2/148/pdf