Spring 2018

Back in Oxley!

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…

Linguistics Summer Camp

Started in 2009 by staff member Julie McGory and then-chair Beth Hume, the Summer Linguistics Institute for Youth Scholars, more commonly…

Spotlight on the Herodotos Project

The Herodotos Project (Linguistics faculty Brian Joseph, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Micha Elsner, along with Christopher Brown from Classics) was awarded a…

Brian D. Joseph elected Vice President/President-Elect for the LSA

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…

In Recognition

Graduate students Elena Vaiksnoraite and Daniel Puthawala have had papers accepted for the Formal Grammar Conference which is held in…

Graduate Student Presentations and Publications

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,…

Faculty Publications

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…

Alumni Updates

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…

News and Events

In August, we held a welcome back party for the department- it was our last big event in the Stadium! In September, undergraduates,…