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 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! 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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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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Dr. Tang was invited by the MAPS (Multicultural Association for Pre-Health Students) Fall Research Forum and gave a talk titled “Science without borders: where linguistics meets human health research” on November 23rd, 2020. In the talk, he illustrated how linguistics, the science of language, can play a role in human health research. He presented an […]
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The SLAM lab started to host a series of informal lab-student-led one-hour long talks/demos this semester. Our undergraduate member Calvin Yang hosted the second workshop regarding programming languages and context-free grammar for the general on November 19th, 2020. If you are interested, you can watch the recorded video with the link attached below. Please follow […]
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Dr. Tang was invited to make a video by One Health on what One Health means to him for One Health Week. He highlighted a few human-health related projects (one of which is in collab with UF One Health) and briefly discussed how linguistic research can contribute to healthcare. Please find his talk below for […]
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The SLAM lab is going to do a series of informal lab-student-led one-hour long talks/demos this semester. Our undergraduate member Rayyan Merchant hosted the first text mining workshop for the general on October 30th, 2020. If you are interested, you can watch the recorded video with the link attached below. Please follow up and more […]
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The Speech, Lexicon and Modeling Lab (slam.lin.ufl.edu) within the Department of Linguistics (lin.ufl.edu) at the University of Florida is accepting applicants to the Linguistics PhD program. A PhD student position is available fully funded for three years to work in the Speech, Lexicon and Modeling Lab with Dr. Kevin Tang and Dr. Ratree Wayland in […]