Now Released: Sign Language Phonetic Annotator / Analyzer (SLP-AA) v0.1.0
We’re thrilled to announce the first official release of the Sign Language Phonetic Annotator / Analyzer (SLP-AA) software, version 0.1.0! This new tool is designed to support phonetic transcription and phonological analysis of sign languages—an exciting development for researchers, educators, and students working in the field of sign language linguistics. This release represents a major […]
UBC Linguistics Alumnus Jennifer Glougie Reappointed as Chair of BC Labour Relations Board and Employment Standards Tribunal
We are proud to announce that Dr. Jennifer Glougie, a UBC Linguistics alumnus, has been reappointed as chair of the BC Labour Relations Board and the Employment Standards Tribunal. Her new five-year term will begin on February 5, 2025, following a merit-based recruitment process by Niki Sharma, Attorney General. Dr. Glougie has served as chair […]
Yadong Liu defends his PhD
We are happy to share that Yadong Liu has successfully defended his PhD yesterday (30 Oct). Following are some details about this Dissertation. Title: “Integrating Posture Control in Speech Models” Supervisor: Bryan Gick Committee: Márton Sóskuthy & Sidney Fels (Electrical & Computer Engineering) Also participating in the defense: Gunnar Hansson, Jean-Sébastien Blouin (Kinesiology), and Romeo […]
MDS Spotlight: Meet Daniel Jimenez, MDS Computational Linguistics, Class of 2024
Prior to entering the UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) Computational Linguistics program, Daniel Jimenez was working as a software developer with Amazon. However, it was Jimenez’s strong desire to pursue a career in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence that led him to the MDS Computational Linguistics program. Read Daniel’s story.
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.
Marci Sóskuthy promoted to associate professor
Márton Sóskuthy has been promoted to associate professor with tenure. Congratulations, Marci!
Library site highlights syntax class Wikipedia projects
The UBC library website has a posted an extensive discussion of Wikipedia authorship class projects in Rose-Marie Déchaine’s undergraduate syntax course LING 300.
Statement on the Kamloops Indian Residential School atrocity
The department has a long-term commitment to Indigenous communities as they work to recover from the residential school era and its aftermath. We are horrified and saddened by the recent discovery of the remains of 215 children… [Click for full statement.]
Alumna Jennifer Abels interviewed on life & employment beyond the PhD
Doctoral alumna Jennifer Abels has been interviewed on the Language Sciences site on her activities since completing the program. She is currently a training coordinator with the Portage Network of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), an organization of librarians and others focused on research data management.
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.