Congratulations to Drs. Kevin Tang and Ratree Wayland, whose joint project with Dr. Lori Altmann and Dr. Yong-Kyu Yoon, titled, “SenSE: Smart Electropalatography for Linguistic and Medical Applications (SELMA)” was awarded a $750,000 NSF Grant. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2037266&HistoricalAwards=false
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Robin Fintz was selected by the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program to intern with the Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity at Camp Pendleton. She will be working with engineers and fellow interns at MCTSSA to automate tests and to yield a more secure network architecture. Robin will combine her knowledge of programming and her […]
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A new University of Florida transdisciplinary collaboration has been awarded nearly $50,000 to help reduce colorectal cancer screening inequities affecting African-American patients, by optimizing the delivery of a mobile screening intervention. The project, titled A Sociolinguistic-Enabled Web Application to Precision Health Intervention for African Americans, is funded through a $49,004 UF Clinical and Translational Science […]
Ryan Aponte will be participating in the DIMACS REU Program . The DIMACS Research Experiences for Undergraduates program is a competitive research experience program at Rutgers in Algorithms from Foundations to Applications, featuring projects in CS, Math, Bioinformatics, Physical Sciences, and more! Ryan will use text mining and machine learning to better understand cybersecurity and […]
Rayyan Merchant was awarded a STEM Summer Boren Scholarship to study Tajik Persian in Tajikistan during the summer of 2021. He plans on using the experience gained from this experience to further his Persian transliteration project, which aims to transliterate Iranian and Afghan Persian to Tajik Persian, thereby allowing Tajikistan’s citizens to access Persian language […]
A new interdisciplinary collaboration spanning three UF departments and research groups has been formed thanks to the UF Informatics Institute’s COVID-19 Response Seed Funding initiative. The project titled “The emergence of Covid-19 team science: tracking topics, networks and expertise in global Covid-19 research” has been awarded $18,875 and is jointly led by Raffaele Vacca, Assistant […]
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Congratulations to PhD student Josh Martin, who received an O. Ruth McQuown Scholarship Award ($2500). This scholarship is awarded to students who share a, “commitment to social issues (including addressing issues and fostering opportunities for women, racial minorities and those of low socio-economic background)”. His name will be inscribed on a plaque that is housed […]
Kevin Tang featured on the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’s news page. [Reposted from: https://news.clas.ufl.edu/how-genetics-guide-the-evolution-of-language/] More than 7,000 languages have evolved across the globe as different cultures have migrated, interacted with each other and isolated themselves. New research, though, suggests another factor has played a major role in the way these languages changed: genetics. […]
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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 22nd April 2020 till Friday 24th April 2020. The symposium will be partly synchronous (via Zoom) and partly asynchronous (with a […]
Caroline traveled to the IIT-Guwahati in Assam, India, mid-October to spend two weeks collecting and analyzing data on Indian English phonetics and phonology, and to enjoy some excellent food & coffee! Along with colleague Assoc. Prof. Priyankoo Sarmah of IIT, we are analyzing the VOT, vowel quality and duration, and rhythm of the English spoken […]