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 »
[Thanks Uriel!]
Hal Tily’s paper ‘Word lengths are optimized for efficient communication’, co-authored with Steven T. Pantadosi and Edward Gibson (http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1012551108), has received a lot of attention from the world media:
Congratulations, Hal!
Congratulations to Martin Kay, whose Collected Papers of Martin Kay: A Half-Century of Computational Linguistics has just been released from CSLI Publications.
The New York Times ran a story this week about language documentation in the exotic urban jungle of New York City. Linguists involved include Daniel Kaufman at CUNY and Robert Holman at NYU. This is excellent publicity for the field, and interesting to boot; watch the video version here to hear what Garifuna and Mamuju sound like!
On March 21, Joan Bresnan gave a talk on “Predicting Syntax in Time and Space” at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies workshop on “Probabilistic Syntax: Phonetics, Diachrony, and Synchrony”, attended by Harald Baayen, Janet Pierrehumbert, Hinrich Schuetze, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Jen Hay (virtually), Mirjam Ernestus, Marilyn Ford, Sali Tagliamonte, Lars Konieczny, Anette Rosenbach, Victor Kuperman, and Teo Juvonen.
She also co-authored the paper “Dative and Genitive Variability in Late
Modern English” given at the workshop, with Christoph Wolk, Ekaterina
Ehret, and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi.
Victor Kuperman also presented the talk “Effects of accessibility and syntactic probability on the acoustic production of dative verbs” at the same workshop.