We finished last academic year (2023-2024) with a departmental commencement ceremony in record attendance and a star appearance by Dubs! Our students and faculty members had another productive academic year, but the biggest kudos go to our graduating class of 2024: 4 PhD students, 26 Computational Linguistics Master students, 48 undergraduate Linguistics majors, 12 undergraduate Linguistics minors, and 11 American Sign Language minors.
Our Commencement speaker… Read more
Our students and faculty have been quite active over the summer: presenting at conferences, attending summer schools and doing fieldwork.
Here are some of the highlights:
Myriam Lapierre presented “Acoustic Vowel Space Expansion in Panãra” at LabPhon in Seoul, Korea, with Ella De Falco, Alessio Tosolini and Jeremy Steffman.
Sunny Ananthanarayan, Ella De Falco, Jessa Jeter and Myriam Lapierre carried out 7 weeks of fieldwork in… Read more
UW Linguistics made quite a splash at the Association for Computational Linguistics, in Bangkok, Thailand this August. We had many faculty and students present, including:
Emily M. Bender gave her Presidential Address titled "ACL Is Not an AI Conference". The slides can be found here. The video recording is… Read more
Over the summer, the Pacific Northwest English study team, led by Professor Alicia Beckford Wassink, created a website, "A Sociolinguists’ Eye-View" in partnership with the Yakama Nation Language Program and Cultural Committee that brings together information about the cultural and linguistic history of the Yakama people, including language contact and dialect formation. The website was recommended to the Office of the Superintendent of… Read more
In October, we said a fond farewell and a HUGE thank-you to Joyce Parvi, who retired after more than two decades of continuous service at the University of Washington and the Department of Linguistics. In her most recent role as Academic Counselor, she managed all aspects of the department’s graduate programs’ advising, including the department's PCE program for Computational Linguistics.
Joyce Parvi was the heart and soul of the Computational Linguistics Master of Science (CLMS) program since… Read more
2024 graduate C.M. Downey has started in a new role as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Data Science at the University of Rochester.
Downey’s teaching and research focuses on the interdisciplinary crossroads of language and computation, including the Fall 2024 course Deep Learning for Computational Linguistics, which attracts a mix of Data Science and Linguistics students.
Downey also seeks to build upon the UR Linguistics department’s strength in language documentation and… Read more
Sara Ng graduated with a PhD in Linguistics in 2024, and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department at Western Washington University. The Linguistics Department at Western was founded in 2019 and has grown to a thriving department with about 150 major and minor undergraduate students (about 100 of which Sara gets to teach right away!). Sara is teaching courses in phonetics, empirical analysis, and computational linguistics -- all of which are skills she honed as a… Read more
Amandalynne Paullada joins us as Acting Assistant Professor in Autumn 2024. She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education in the UW School of Medicine, funded by the National Library of Medicine, and has also taught courses in health informatics and data analytics in the School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership at UW Tacoma.
As a postdoctoral fellow, she contributed to research that examined the potential for language… Read more
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