Jess Tse wins the Edna Dharmaratne Award
We are excited to announce that this year’s winner of the Edna Dharmaratne Award (https://linguistics.ubc.ca/undergraduate/funding/the-edna-dharmaratne-award-in-linguistics) is Jess Tse, a 3rd-year student in Speech Sciences. The award is intended to recognize a student who not only has a good academic record but also has a commitment of volunteerism and service to others. Jess started volunteering well […]
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.
MDS Spotlight: Meet Max Ahluwalia, MDS Computational Linguistics, Class of 2024
Max Ahluwalia pursued a Master’s in Computational Linguistics to preserve languages, which he saw as vital to cultural and political identities and societal heritage. Read Max’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 […]
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!
Anna Stacey wins the Edna Dharmaratne Award 2023
We are excited to announce that this year’s winner of the Edna Dharmaratne Award (https://linguistics.ubc.ca/undergraduate/funding/the-edna-dharmaratne-award-in-linguistics/) is Anna Stacey, a first-year MA student in Linguistics. The award is intended to recognize a student who not only has a good academic record but also has a commitment of volunteerism and service to others. Anna has excelled in […]
Featured MDS Computational Linguistics Projects
Are texts generated by ChatGPT indistinguishable from the human text? Can the Bechdel Test can be applied to assess female participation in Jane Austen’s novels. If you want to learn more, look into these featured projects from this year’s COLX 523 (Adv. Corpus Linguistics) course. https://masterdatascience.ubc.ca/why-data-science/data-stories/data-action-parallel-corpra-ai-generated-versus-human-written-text https://masterdatascience.ubc.ca/why-data-science/data-stories/data-action-bookdeltest-female-participation-jane-austen-novels
Recent graduate Chelsea featured in UBC news article
Featured in the UBC news, Chelsea, our recent graduate, shares why they chose to study at UBC arts. Here’s more: https://www.arts.ubc.ca/news/3-domestic-students-share-why-they-chose-to-study-at-ubc-arts/ Thanks, Chelsea!
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 […]