PhD Alumnus Contact Information cmdowney@uw.edu 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 2023LING 473 A: Basics for Computational Linguistics LING 473 B: Basics for Computational Linguistics LING 473 C: Basics for Computational Linguistics LING 473 D: Basics for Computational Linguistics Spring 2023LING 575 J: Topics in Computational Linguistics LING 575 K: Topics in Computational Linguistics LING 575 L: Topics in Computational Linguistics Spring 2022LING 575 J: Topics in Computational Linguistics Winter 2022LING 200 AB: Introduction to Linguistics Autumn 2021LING 269 AA: Swearing and Taboo Language LING 269 AB: Swearing and Taboo Language LING 269 AC: Swearing and Taboo Language LING 269 AD: Swearing and Taboo Language Resources & Related Links Personal Page Github Affiliations Home Department Linguistics Related News Related News Congratulations to C.M. Downey on Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Data Science Position at the University of Rochester (October 16, 2024) Chair's Welcome (September 8, 2023) C. M. Downey receives Presidential Dissertation Fellowship (September 5, 2023) Featured Language: Inuktitut (October 2, 2020)