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On Saturday, the 15th of October, UW hosted the 20-year celebration of our CLMA/CLMS program at wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House.This hybrid event, much like the graduate program it represents, was hosted with a speech by Emily Bender. There was then much time for talking with alumni from 2025's cohort, all the way back to our first cohort's graduated class. For in person attendees, there were…
Language Pedagogy Circle: Written Corrective Feedback: Practical Strategies for Language Teachers Thursday, 02/12/2026, 2:30 – 3:30pm, Denny Hall 156 Please join us for our winter quarter discussion, led by Sarah-Kate Moore (Frenital) and Ana Dobao (Spanport), as we focus on practical strategies for language teachers to use in the classroom…
This coming Winter, Professor Emily Bender is set to lecture on "Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of "AI": The View from the Humanities." This talk is a part of a series of Katz Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities. Professor Bender will be discussing data collection, human interpersonal relationships and human-computer interactions, and what is means to be human.For more information,…
Members of the UW Linguistic Bias Working group Russ Hugo, Alex Panicacci, & Betsy Evans together with 4 genetic counselors Katie Fiallos, Valentina CaceresDaniela Diaz CaroGayun Chan-Smutko and 1 graduate student, Elizabeth LeBlanc, created a workshop for the annual meeting of the National Society for Genetic Counselors. The workshop, titled “I can’t understand you!”: A workshop to…
The Linguistics Society of America has issued Update #321 to its newsletter this week, and our very own Sharon Hargus is on the front page!The Linguistics Society of America aims to further the scientific study of language and to advance that gained knowledge for the betterment of society. They have existed since 1924. Alicia Beckford Wassink was elected the Vice President of the LSA in 2025!…
Congratulations to Adeline Braverman for her paper being accepted for publication! Her paper titled "Mommy and mama: Parental language input from mother-mother couples" was just accepted for publication in the journal First Language. This is one of the first publications documenting the language environments of infants raised in mother-mother families. Adeline…
Graduate student Siyu Liang has just won the Senior Area Chair Highlight Award at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2025 conference! The paper, “Beyond WER; Probing Whisper’s Sub-token Decoder Across Diverse Language Resource Levels,” authored by Siyu Liang, Nicholas Ballier, Gina-Anne Levow, and Richard Wright, offers new insight into sub-token level disparities in large…
The Arienne Dwyer Award selection committee, Myriam and Andrew, have chosen Sunny Ananthanarayan to receive this year's award for his research on the role of sociolinguistics in language documentation and his documentation of Amazonian languages.Congratulations, Sunny!
In October, Prof. Bender participated in the 39th Mind & Life Dialogue at the Dalai Lama Library and Archive in Dharamsala India. This event continues a tradition started by the Dalai Lama of bringing together Tibetan Buddhist scholarship and western science. The topic of this Dialogue was "Minds, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics". Though the Dalai Lama did not participate in the…
Congratulations to Saiya Karamali, a PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics, who won the Washington Chess Federation's 2025 Washington Women’s Championship on October 12, 2025. This win has earned Saiya a seed into the 2026 Washington State Championship Invitational!