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Ash Lewis and TacoBot team win third place in TaskBot Challenge
Graduate student Ash Lewis was part of the OSU team that earned third place in the inaugural Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge for their taskbot, TacoBot: https://www.amazon.science/alexa-prize/…
Ash Lewis joins Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge team
Graduate student Ash Lewis is a member of a team of OSU graduate students selected to participate in the first Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge (https://tinyurl.com/4ernjts8). The OSU team is one of…
Alumnus Lifeng Jin wins NAACL Best Paper Award
Recent PhD alumnus Lifeng Jin received the NAACL Best Paper Award for his work on Video-aided Unsupervised Grammar Induction with Songyang Zhang, Linfeng Song, Kun Xu, Dong Yu, and Jiebo…
Cory Shain and Micha Elsner Win Best Paper at SIGNLL
Cory Shain and Micha Elsner have won the best paper award at the SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning for their paper entitled, “Acquiring language from speech by learning…
de Marneffe and Squires awarded teaching grant
Congratulations to Professors Marie de Marneffe and Lauren Squires (English), who have been awarded one of this year's five interdisciplinary team-teaching grants (https://…
Linguistics in the News
Check out this article about Micha Elsner's 'Where's Waldo' article in Frontiers in Psychology (with A. Clarke and H. Rohde.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/science/giving-directions-start…
William Schuler's project has been funded by DARPA
Congratulations are due to William Schuler and colleagues (Lane Schwartz (UIUC), Timothy Miller (Harvard, Boston Children's Hospital), and Finale Doshi-Velez (Harvard)) whose project "Low Resource…
Congratulations to Dr. Plummer
Congratulations are due to Andy Plummer, who filed his dissertation onThe acquisition of vowel normalization during early Infancy: Theory and computational framework on Friday.
Andy Plummer accepts post-doc
Congratulations are due to Andy Plummer, who has taken a post-doctoral position on a project with Professor Eric Fosler-Lussier of Computer Science and Engineering. Andy provided me this…