MDS Spotlight: Meet Kai Maurin-Jones, MDS Computational Linguistics, Class of 2023
Kai Maurin-Jones was looking for a Master’s program that combined his interests in linguistics and quantitative methodologies and found that the MDS Computational Linguistics program was a perfect fit. Read More.
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!
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!
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.
“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
Prof. Abdul-Mageed is the new Canada Research Chair
We are happy to share that our very own Prof. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed (Computational Linguistics and Information Science) is the new Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. To learn more on this: https://research.ubc.ca/fifteen-ubc-researchers-announced-new-and-renewed-ubc-canada-research-chairs https://www.canada.ca/en/research-chairs/news/2022/06/government-of-canada-announces-119-new-and-renewed-canada-research-chairs.html
Holly Davies wins the Governor General’s Silver Medal in Arts
Holly Davies, (BA Honours in Speech Sciences), has won the Governor General’s Silver Medal in Arts! Huge congratulations, Holly!
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!