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Linguistics Students Honored for Receiving FLAS Fellowships
Four Linguistics students were honored this week for receiving Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for Summer 2019 and the 2019-2020 Academic Year. Congratulations, Victora Paxton…
Andrea Sims to Receive Funding for Study
The Center for Slavic and East European Studies has received university partnership grant from the Department of State and U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia to strengthen teaching and research…
Nanjiang Jiang and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe Win Best Short Paper at ACL 2019
Nanjiang Jiang and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe's paper entitled, "Do you know that Florence is packed with visitors? Evaluating state-of-the-art models of speaker commitment" has won Best Short…
Alumnus Panos Pappas Receives Teaching Award From Simon Fraser University
Alumnus Panos Pappas (PhD 2001) has been awarded the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Cormack Teaching Award by Simon Fraser University. Congratulations, Panos!
de Marneffe awarded CAREER grant
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe has been awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation for her work on drawing inferences for human-like language understanding. Congratulations, Marie!…
Nandi Sims wins NSF Dissertation award
Nandi Sims has been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award for her work on language, race, and identity among ethnically diverse youths in Miami. Congratulations, Nandi!…
Jiang and de Marneffe nominated for Best Short Paper at ACL
Nanjiang Jiang and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe’s paper entitled, "Do you know that Florence is packed with visitors? Evaluating state-of-the-art models of speaker commitment” has been nominated…
Michael White receives research award from Facebook
Michael White, Professor of linguistics, has received a three-year, $2.4 million Collaborative Research award from Facebook to further his research on neural natural language generation.
Symon Stevens-Guille wins travel awards for ESSLLI
Symon Stevens-Guille has been awarded a fee waiver to attend the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI), as well as a student travel award from the Association of…