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UF Virtual Student Research Symposium on Computational Linguistics (21st — 23rd April 2021)

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 […]

Undergraduate SLAMers were accepted into Scholars Program

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 […]

Dr. Wayland published a new volume regarding second language speech learning

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 […]

One co-authored abstract from Ryan Aponte and Robin Fintz was accepted for NCUR 2021

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 […]

Dr. Tang published a co-authored paper on autonomous vehicle

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), […]

Dr. Tang presented at the UFII Covid-19 Seed Awardees Virtual Seminar Series

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 […]

Prof. Wiltshire Published a Monograph about Indian English Accent Online

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 […]