C.M. Downey

PhD Candidate

Contact Information

cmdowney@uw.edu

GUG 407

Fields of Interest

American Indian/Native American Computational Linguistics Endangered Languages Language Revitalization Machine Learning Machine Translation Morphology Natural Language Processing Typology Unsupervised Morphology

Biography

B.S., Linguistics and Russian, Tulane University, 2018

M.S., Computational Linguistics, University of Washington, 2022

Research

Selected Research

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. Download PDF
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 Download PDF

Courses Taught

Summer 2023

Spring 2023

Spring 2022

LING 575 J: Topics in Computational Linguistics

Winter 2022

LING 200 AB: Introduction to Linguistics

Autumn 2021

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Related News

Related News

Chair's Welcome (September 8, 2023)
C. M. Downey receives Presidential Dissertation Fellowship (September 5, 2023)
Featured Language: Inuktitut (October 2, 2020)

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