Computational Linguistics

The department is currently building up a program in computational linguistics. Current areas of interest include grammar engineering, building computational tools for the documentation of underdescribed languages, and Natural Language Processing in general. UW linguistics students also have opportunities to work with faculty in EE, CS and the Information School on research in machine translation, speech recognition, and biomedical informatics, among others.

Related Faculty

Emily M. Bender
Professor
Gina-Anne Levow
Professor
Amandalynne Paullada
Acting Assistant Professor
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
Associate Professor
Fei Xia
Professor

Latest News

Siyu Liang Wins the SAC Highlight Award at EMNLP 2025! (November 13, 2025)
CLMA/CLMS 20-Year Celebration (November 5, 2025)
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna to present The AI Con (August 5, 2025)
Professor Alicia Wassink Featured by CoMotion (February 29, 2024)
Faculty Profile (May 10, 2021)

Related Research

Wueger, Tara. (2024). An Investigation of the Grammar Matrix, AGGREGATION Project, and LING 567 in the Context of Value Sensitive Design. University of Washington Working Papers in Linguistics. https://hdl.handle.net/1773/52341
Abhinav Patil, Sam Briggs, Tara Wueger, and Daniel D. O’Connell. 2023. SADTech@DravidianLangTech: Multimodal Sentiment Analysis of Tamil and Malayalam. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 250–257, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria. https://aclanthology.org/2023.dravidianlangtech-1.37
C.m. Downey, Shannon Drizin, Levon Haroutunian, and Shivin Thukral. 2022. Multilingual unsupervised sequence segmentation transfers to extremely low-resource languages. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 5331–5346, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
C.m. Downey, Fei Xia, Gina-Anne Levow, and Shane Steinert-Threlkeld. 2022. A Masked Segmental Language Model for Unsupervised Natural Language Segmentation. In Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pages 39–50, Seattle, Washington. Association for Computational Linguistics
Song, Yan, et al. "Summarizing Medical Conversations via Identifying Important Utterances." Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 2020.
Chen, Guimin, Yuanhe Tian, and Yan Song. "Joint Aspect Extraction and Sentiment Analysis with Directional Graph Convolutional Networks." Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 2020.
Tian, Yuanhe, Yan Song, and Fei Xia. "Joint Chinese Word Segmentation and Part-of-speech Tagging via Multi-channel Attention of Character N-grams." Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 2020.
Nie, Yuyang, et al. "Improving Named Entity Recognition with Attentive Ensemble of Syntactic Information." Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Findings. 2020.
Nie, Yuyang, et al. "Named Entity Recognition for Social Media Texts with Semantic Augmentation." Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). 2020.
Tian, Yuanhe, et al. "Improving biomedical named entity recognition with syntactic information." BMC Bioinformatics 21, 539 (2020)

Computational Linguistics

Emily M. Bender

Gina-Anne Levow

Amandalynne Paullada

Shane Steinert-Threlkeld

Fei Xia