WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
R/lab will have their first meeting at 9:00 am on Friday, 1/15, at this Zoom link. They will discuss Gordon et al. (2001), a classical sentence processing paper. Please let Matt Wagers know if you would like to collaborate with him on preparing a handout or guide this paper.
One of our BA Alums, Amandalynne Paullada (’13 graduate, now a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Linguistics at UW) attended the NeurIPS Conference and one of her co-authored papers won an award for “forwarding the discussion around collecting and using data.”
The paper presents a survey of critiques of a variety of dataset collection, design, and development methods, including the recent advances in ‘reading comprehension’ tasks and ‘language understanding’ abilities of Machine Learning models.
She also had a single-authored paper from the same conference, titled How does Machine Translation Shift Power?
Congratulations, Amandalynne!
This Tuesday (12/15) from 12:00-1:00 pm in their usual Zoom room, Wendy López-Márquez (UCB) gave a presentation of ongoing work entitled “Reanálisis del Sistema vocálico del Nuntajɨɨyi” in Spanish.
They will resume meeting early next quarter, so be on the lookout for a scheduling email soon.
The SUMSC meeting will take place on Wednesday, 12/16, at 1 pm in their usual Zoom room (979 2662 4935, pw: monads). They will discuss Champollion’s (2015) paper on “The interaction of compositional semantics and event semantics”, available here.
For the final meeting of this quarter(1 pm, Thursday, Dec. 17th), Phlunch will have a special LSA practice session. They will meet in their usual Zoom room(230 326 093, pw: 655218). A full schedule of Phlunch can be found here.
This Friday, Dr. Rebecca Tollan (U of Delaware) will give a colloquium talk. The talk will take place on Friday, Dec. 11 at 1:20 pm via Zoom (Stay tuned for the Zoom and talk information!).