Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference
BU Linguistics was well-represented at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference! Aditya Yedetore and Najoung Kim presented a poster titled “Semantic Training Signals Promote Hierarchical Syntactic Generalizations in Transformers”. Professor Najoung Kim, along with two of her colleagues, also won Best Paper Award at the GenBench workshop! You can read their paper […]
Recordings of Taeme available on PARADISEC
After linguist Philip Tama made recordings in 2012 of Taeme (a Pahoturi River language), Professor Kate Lindsey and student Brady Dailey compiled and cleaned the dataset. The recordings are now public in the PARADISEC archive! Without their efforts, this dataset would have remained inaccessible. Now, the Taeme community and researchers have access to this important […]
Write the Docs conference: Chloe Guttmann
Congratulations to master’s student Chloe Guttmann who presented at the conference Write the Docs Atlantic 2024. Her presentation was titled “From morphemes to manuscripts: how linguistics can make you a better writer”. Write the Docs is a global community of people who care about documentation: Programmers, Tech Writers, Customer Support, Designers, Project Managers, Developer Advocates, […]
10th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory (MGDLT)
PhD student Vasileios Michos presented at the 10th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory (MGDLT). His title is ‘Mesoclisis across Modern Greek dialects; proclisis, enclisis, or neither?’ The conference took place in three Griko speaking villages of Southern Italy. Congrats to Vasileios!
Dissertation: Megan Brown-Bousfield
We have very exciting news: as of today, Megan Brown-Bousfield has successfully defended her PhD dissertation “CLI and transfer in a trilingual context: Acquisition and development of L3 German grammatical gender”. Congratulations, Megan!