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A little insight into how FLORIDA is handling COVID-positive students🧵: My brother, a freshman, tested positive yesterday. The school called him close to the end of business hours Friday to tell him about his result and that he had to leave his dorm.

🚨🥂🍻🍷🗣️🚨 The #AlcoLang project (Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab) , Charles B. Chang (@PAMLab_BU), Andrew Nevins) is featured in AIP Publishing #Scilight this month: "Tonal language speakers experience less vocal impairment from alcohol". doi.org/10.1063/10.001… #alcohol #intoxication #tones #pitch

My native language has polypersonal verbs, noun incorporation, a complex aspectual system and often uses topic-comment structures ... yes, I'm talking about colloquial German

POV wenn du in der Niederlande einen Zug verpasst und trotzdem pünktlich ankommst, weil du einfach den nächsten Zug 10 Minuten später genommen hast und gar nicht 1h warten musstest wie in *hust* anderen Staaten üblich

🚨Akhilesh has been accepted for the 5-Minute Linguist event (virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/public…) at the 98th Linguistic Society of America conference at Denver, Colorado from 5-8th Jan. Akhilesh thanks @HeiCAD_HHU Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf for the experience gained from the lightning talks.

Happy to announce that I'll be presenting a poster at Linguistic Society of America, entitled "Translating through Transliteration: The Case of Tajik Persian"! Super excited to attend alongside Akhilesh representing Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab)!

🚨🎉 We are so proud to have Rayyan and Akhilesh representing our lab and sharing their excellent research on computational linguistics at Linguistic Society of America 98th Annual Meeting 2023. Way to go, SLAMers!🤖

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf's English linguists (English Language and Linguistics) are well represented at the 18th Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum #PnP conference Bielefeld University this week (6 & 7 Oct) 👨‍🏫👩‍🏫 @justalingwist, @dmncschmtz, Ingo Plag, Jasmin Pfeifer, Christopher Geissler

SLAM labbie anna proudly presented her BA thesis in Linguistics @ISI_hhu on modelling probabilistic acoustic reduction computationally🤖 at 77. StuTS

briefly rejoining twitter to plug my poster at the LSA virtual poster session tmrw! it’s a prerecorded video on Oxford Abstracts but I’ll be online to answer any questions in the comments during the session, and ill also be in the hotel if you’d like to speak in person!

Our lab welcomes Rayyan Merchant (Rayyan) to do research for his BSc thesis this summer with Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang (Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab), Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf). Thanks to the Summer Undergraduate International Research Award 💰$5000 from FLORIDA, he'll develop #NLP tools for 🇹🇯Tajiki, a minority language.

Honored to named one of LINGUIST List’s Rising Stars alongside anna and @BraveMoneyLute from Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling lab (SLaM Lab)!

Got this fabulous little volume of joy which teaches you how to say stuff in Uzbek, Standard Tajik, Northern Tajik and Southern Tajik. Persian linguists who know Cyrillic are gonna have lots of fun reading this:

Paper🚨"Leveraging syntactic dependencies in disambiguation: the case of African American English" at LREC COLING 2024 2024 by student authors (WP, AR, JG, WD) & senior authors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf,UFLinguistics) Sarah Moeller (UFLinguistics,FLORIDA )🧵unroll. See QR for papers+videos

im presenting ! in italy ! at the ACL’s CAWL workshop LREC COLING 2024 !