Introduction Dear Faculty and Students, As part of the Introduction to Computational Linguistics (LIN4930) course, I am pleased to announce that there will be an exciting Virtual Research Poster Symposium from 6am on Wednesday 21st April 2021 till Friday 23rd April 2021. The symposium will be partly synchronous (via Zoom) and partly asynchronous (with a […]
Our graduate SLAMer Josh Martin just presented at the fourth annual ACM FAccT conference and talked about spoken corpora data, automatic speech recognition, and bias against African American language with the case of habitual ‘Be’. You can find his recorded Q&A below and his abstract here.
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Congratulations! Recently, our undergraduate lab member Ryan Aponte was selected as Fernandez Family Scholar, in recognition of excellent progress and interest in research and graduate studies, and was accepted into the McNair Scholars Program and University Scholars Program to pursue intriguing research with Dr. Tang. In addition, another undergraduate lab member Rayyan Merchant was also […]
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Congratulations to Dr. Ratree Wayland, whose edited volume “Second Language Speech Learning: Theoretical and Empirical Progress” was just published by Cambridge University Press. The link to the book is here and the abstract is attached below. Including contributions from a team of world-renowned international scholars, this volume is a state-of-the-art survey of second language speech […]
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Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Tang and his co-author Dr. Jason Shaw (Yale University), whose article titled, “Prosody leaks into the memories of words” was recently published online as an advanced article in Cognition. The link to the article is here and the abstract is below. The average predictability (aka informativity) of a word in context […]
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Congratulations! One co-authored abstract by two undergraduate SLAMERs Ryan Aponte and Robin Fintz was recently accepted for a presentation at National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR 2021) on April 12-14, 2021. Their abstract for presentation, titled “The Environmental, Genetic, and Demographic Factors of Linguistic Diversity”, underwent a rigorous review by experts in the discipline and […]
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Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Tang, whose co-authored paper titled, “Unsettled Topics Concerning Human and Autonomous Vehicle Interaction” was just published as an SAE International EDGE™ research report. In this report, Dr. Tang and his colleagues examined the current interaction points between humans and autonomous systems, with a particular focus on advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), […]
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This past weekend was the 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, and our lab was well represented! Here are some screenshots from presentations involving our own Dr. Kevin Tang and other SLAM members. Congrats to all SLAM linguists who presented! Post 1 Post 2 Post 3
Dr. Tang is invited to present at the UFII Covid-19 Seed Awardees Virtual Seminar Series and his talk is titled: Covid-19, an accelerator of science: Evidence from convergence in collaboration and language Friday, December 11, 2020 12:00PM – 1:00PM Via Zoom Dr. Tang looked at evidence for convergence in collaboration and language driven by COVID-19 […]
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Congratulations to Prof. Wiltshire’s new monograph titled “Uniformity and Variability in the Indian English Accent”! It is published online and now is free to download until Dec. 7th. This monograph synthesizes research over the past fifty years and adds to it, focusing on selected features of consonants, vowels, and suprasegmentals (stress, intonation, rhythm) to understand […]
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