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Assistant Prof. in Ling & DataSci/AI, University of Rochester NLP for low-resourced and endangered languages cmdowney88.github.io

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Graduate Program

Potential applicants should visit the link here and apply by December 1! If you think this is a good fit for you or someone you know, feel free to reach out by DM or email.
www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/graduate...

06.11.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

- ASR for extremely low-resource langs: making it useful and practical for language documentation
- The role of Linguistic relatedness in transfer learning
- "Roll-your-own" modeling frameworks (i.e. community-trained and -maintained solutions)
- LMs for ancient/archaic language understanding

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I'm recruiting Linguistics PhD students this cycle! You should apply to work with me if you're interested in anything low-resource NLP. Some topics I'm particularly excited about currently:

06.11.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
How to Apply The Department of Linguistics accepts fall-entry applications into its PhD and master's programs once per year. There is no spring-entry option.

- Cornell is just down the road
- Department is deeply engaged in fieldwork
If this sounds up your alley, feel free to reach out! And if you know someone who would be interested, please have them look me up. The deadline for applications is December 1

www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/graduate...

22.11.2024 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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One week left to apply: I'm recruiting (Ling) PhD students! Come work with me on getting NLP to work for as wide a range of languages as possible! Some perks of UR:
- Only have to TA 2 semesters total
- At least $3k discretionary funds for e.g. conferences
- Easy access to upstate NY nature

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Aerial picture of the UBC campus, with an arrow pointing to a building and text asking "Your PhD lab?"

Aerial picture of the UBC campus, with an arrow pointing to a building and text asking "Your PhD lab?"

Do you want to understand how language models work, and how they can change language science? I'm recruiting PhD students at UBC Linguistics! The research will be fun, and Vancouver is lovely. So much cool NLP happening at UBC across both Ling and CS! linguistics.ubc.ca/graduate/adm...

18.11.2024 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
C. M. Downey - ACL Anthology

If you still have space I'd appreciate being added πŸ™‚

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