Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference
BU Linguistics was well-represented at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference! Aditya Yedetore and Najoung Kim presented a poster titled “Semantic Training Signals Promote Hierarchical Syntactic Generalizations in Transformers”. Professor Najoung Kim, along with two of her colleagues, also won Best Paper Award at the GenBench workshop! You can read their paper […]
Recordings of Taeme available on PARADISEC
After linguist Philip Tama made recordings in 2012 of Taeme (a Pahoturi River language), Professor Kate Lindsey and student Brady Dailey compiled and cleaned the dataset. The recordings are now public in the PARADISEC archive! Without their efforts, this dataset would have remained inaccessible. Now, the Taeme community and researchers have access to this important […]
Meet our visiting assistant professor: Jenna Conklin
We are very lucky to have two visiting faculty members this year: meet Professor Jenna Conklin!
Meet our visiting lecturer: Michael Everdell
Meet our visiting lecturer Michael Everdell (he/him/his)! After receiving his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, Mike has been teaching courses in the BU Linguistics department including Field Methods and Lexical Semantics. He also is managing the SULa (Structures of Understudied Languages) Lab. We are thrilled to have him this year! You can […]
Segmental Influences on the Perception of High Pitch Accent Scaling in American English
BU Professor Jon Barnes, along with colleagues Alejna Brugos, Nanette Veilleux, and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, published an article in “Language and Speech” entitled “Segmental Influences on the Perception of High Pitch Accent Scaling in American English”. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00238309241255319
Grant: Najoung Kim
Congrats to Najoung Kim, Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Department of Computer Science! Open Philanthropy recommended a grant over two years to support a project evaluating the abilities of large language models (LLMs) led by Professor Najoung Kim and Professor Sebastian Schuster. To learn more, check out this article from BU!
In Memoriam: Bruce Fraser (professor emeritus)
Bruce Fraser, age 85, passed away on April 18, 2024. At the end he was surrounded by his loved ones, his children, their spouses and several grandchildren in the area as well as his wife of 40 years, Polly Ulichny. He leaves 4 children: Lauren, Douglas. Jeffrey and David Fraser, and their spouses Mariana Glusman, […]