Linguistics News

Centre for Human Inspired Artificial Intelligence Announces Funding Partnership with Google

Lauren Byrnes — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 13:11:02 +0000

We are delighted to share that the Centre for Human Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA), directed by MMLL's Professor Anna Korhonen, has just announced a funding partnership with Google to facilitate AI research.

Data Science in UK secondary education: supporting the hmanities and languages

Lauren Byrnes — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 09:52:21 +0000

Join us for a workshop to explore how data science might build on the rapid expansion of online learning platforms in UK schools to improve the language development and writing skills of students in the humanities and languages in the UK state school sector.

Professor Kasia Jaszczolt’s new book

Emily Boyd — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 12:12:17 +0000

Professor Kasia Jaszczolt’s new book Semantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy: A Journey Through Meaning is available from ��ϲʿ��¼ University Press from March 2023

��ϲʿ��¼ Language Sciences supports ultrasound tongue imaging workshop for language scientists

Katie Fuller — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 10:01:31 +0000

What does your tongue do when you speak? Dr Calbert Graham , Senior Research Associate in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (part of MMLL) convened a workshop about ultrasound tongue imaging. Recent advances in technology mean that ultrasound is an increasingly useful tool for speech research. The two-day gathering...

Global Humanities and Multilingualism at ��ϲʿ��¼ University

Katie Fuller — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 10:51:36 +0000

In a new film, members of the Faculty talk about the exciting research on multilingualism they are conducting and its real-world impact on the lives of young people and adults in the UK and beyond. This includes raising learning outcomes across the world and supporting refugees coming to the UK. The research has also...

Dr Ivan Vulić wins Microsoft-BCS/BCS-IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award

Katie Fuller — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 11:18:00 +0000

We are happy to share the exciting news that Dr Ivan Vulić ( Language Technology Laboratory , Theoretical and Applied Linguistics) has won the prestigious Microsoft-BCS/BCS-IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award . Karen Spärck Jones FBA was a highly accomplished computer scientist in the ��ϲʿ��¼. From 2008, the...

ESRC DTP Knowledge Exchange PhD studentship

Katie Fuller — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 09:51:42 +0000

The ��ϲʿ��¼ ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership [DTP], in collaboration with Oxford Wave Research , is offering a PhD studentship for admission in October 2022 in the Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Section , ��ϲʿ��¼. The three-year doctoral programme will be co-supervised by Dr Kirsty...

��ϲʿ��¼ researchers awarded best long paper in top AI conference

Ros Boswell — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 17:02:28 +0000

Congratulations to Fangyu Liu and Nigel Collier, who have recently been awarded the Best Long Paper Award at the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), together with collaborators from McGill University and the University of Copenhagen. The award winning paper, "Visually grounded...

About Language & AI: Interviews by ��ϲʿ��¼ Language Sciences

Lauren Byrnes — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:31:42 +0000

Happy to share four excellent interviews published by the ��ϲʿ��¼ Language Sciences Interdisciplinary Research Centre, two of which feature academics from MMLL.

TAL Student Ariwan Kai Addy Suhairi Wins 2021 LAGB Dissertation Prize

Lauren Byrnes — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 13:32:47 +0000

We are proud to share the news that undergraduate TAL student, Ariwan Kai Addy Suhairi, has won one of the LAGB dissertation prizes for 2021.