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Spring 2018

Spring 2018

The Linguistics Department has left the Ohio Stadium and returned to a newly-renovated Oxley Hall. This is the building’s second restoration; the first took place in 1989 before the Department first…
Started in 2009 by staff member Julie McGory and then-chair Beth Hume, the Summer Linguistics Institute for Youth Scholars, more commonly…
The Herodotos Project (Linguistics faculty Brian Joseph, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Micha Elsner, along with Christopher Brown from Classics) was awarded a…
We congratulate Dr. Brian D. Joseph, Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and The Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics, who has been elected to the position of…
Graduate students Elena Vaiksnoraite and Daniel Puthawala have had papers accepted for the Formal Grammar Conference which is held in…
Evan Jaffe Lifeng Jin, Michael White, Evan Jaffe, Laura Zimmerman, Douglas Danforth (2017). Combining CNNs and Pattern Matching for Question Interpretation in a Virtual Patient Dialogue System,…
Mary Beckman 2017. Mary E. Beckman, Andrew R. Plummer, Benjamin Munson, & Patrick F. Reidy. "Methods for eliciting, annotating, and analyzing databases for child speech development." Computer…
John Nerbonne (PhD, '84) retired from his position of  professor of computational linguistics, chair of humanities computing, and director of linguistics research in Groningen in July 2017…
 In August, we held a welcome back party for the department- it was our last big event in the Stadium!   In September, undergraduates,…