The New Sesquipedalian

The Department collaborations pages have been updated! Check out our graphs of collaborations (published, presented, or submitted papers/posters) among:

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To all of the following:

• Annie Zaenen, who had this Festschrift published in her honor. Many current and former Stanford folks contributed!
• Brad Davidson (PhD, 1998), who over a year ago was promoted to General Manager at Ogilvy CommonHealth Behavioral Insights, a division of Ogilvy and Mather. CommonHealth’s work is healthcare communications, an area Brad delved into in his dissertation, Interpreting Medical Discourse: A Study of Communication in a Hospital Clinic. Read more here.
• Janneke Van Hofwegen, who received the 2013 Presidential Honorary Membership Award at the American Dialect Society Annual meeting at the LSA in Boston – awarded to students who have “promise of continuing contributions to our field and to the American Dialect Society”.

Sesquikudos to Ivan Sag on the publication of his new book, Sign-Based Construction Grammar, (co-edited with Hans Boas), which provides an overview of the background and application of the SBCG framework!

Our very own John Rickford has just published a new book, a biblographical resource (appropriately) entitled African American, Creole, and Other English Vernaculars in Education: A Bibliographical Resource. Take a look at this link for more info!

The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce a dissertation oral: “Processing short-message communications in low-resource languages”, Rob Munro. Come to the Greenberg Room at 1pm today to hear all about it.

This dissertation investigates the inherent written variation found in the short-message communications of many languages, and explores how this variation can be modeled for natural language processing systems. Read the rest of this entry »