The abstract submission deadline for the Language Sciences Research Day has been extended to Friday, March 14! Submissions on language-related research from any discipline are welcome. Don't miss this chance! Win CAD 200 for Best Talk or CAD 100 for Best Poster! Link in bio :)

️‍Today we announce 🌴 Palm, our largest community project to date. Thrilled to share “🌴 Palm: A Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse Dataset for Arabic LLMs.” 🌍️‍ This large-scale, community-driven effort has been in the works for over a year and unites 44

@ubcscience @UBC_Arts @UBCLinguistics @UBCiSchool @UBC_CS @UBCLangScis Community projects are very time-consuming, but are extremely rewarding. I truly enjoyed this work. Just to give an idea about how much work this has been, we have produce 80+ pages of guidelines for this project.

I am thrilled to introduce our new Nature Communications paper "π-PrimeNovo: an accurate and efficient non-autoregressive deep learning model for de novo peptide sequencing". I wrote a Medium article to briefly explain this work--"Decoding Life: Introducing the π‑PrimeNovo

Language Sciences is looking for a graduate student to join our Steering Committee from March 15, 2025 - March 31, 2026. Spread the words/ apply now! https://t.co/cw1pTvqWmK

LangSci is thrilled to welcome Dr. Carla Hudson Kam, also Head of the Linguistics Department, as our interim co-director, in place of Dr. Bryan Gick who is on study leave until December 31, 2025. Read Carla's Q&A: https://t.co/s2BDYmdugb #Linguistics #Research #codirector

My first intellectual baby's out! Check out: "Learn Swahili in a Fun Way: A Linguistic Approach - Book Launch Event"

Join us on Wednesday, November 27, 2024, from 12:00pm - 1:00pm for a panel discussion on "Parallels between #Indigenous languages and #creoles: what can we learn from the past and apply to the #future?" RSVP & details: https://t.co/qUTSy4lQe4 @UBCLinguistics @UBCAnth

Nov 28: RSVP here if you haven't already!

Join us on Thurs, November 21 at 1pm for a talk featuring Dr. Shannon Ward on her book "Amdo Lullaby: An Ethnography of Childhood and Language Shift on the Tibetan Plateau" RSVP here: https://t.co/SBNDPHhMfn #amdo #tibetan #anthropology

“Asking the right questions” – On AI’s untapped potential for journalism: https://t.co/TDm8NrNjI7 Join Dr. Hermida's talk on AI & Journalism with Language Sciences next Wednesday October 30th. Details here: https://t.co/I11XFXK9Gz #journalism #AI

Watch @dr_kassan discuss Child Language Brokering on @CTVCalgary: https://t.co/DGZ6i1pWND Her new book on the topic, “Beyond Translation”, is now available. #translation #Immigration #family #ubc

Read Dr. @rondarvin's interview on #GenAI & Learning. This is part 1 or our new LangSci Meets #AI Series! https://t.co/J1q6ZDmu8f

Join Colloquim Series with Dr. Marco Jacquemet: Transidioma Afloat – Communication, Power, and Migration in the Mediterranean Sea on Oct 17.

Join us on Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024, 1 - 2pm for a talk featuring Dr. Alfred Hermida on "Between Hope and Disillusionment: Reassessing Journalism in the Age of AI". RSVP here: https://t.co/QrVJYtm2S0... #AI #journalism

AI is making it more difficult to detect plagiarism in scientific papers. AI tools can be prompted to paraphrase in sophisticated ways, such as in the style of an academic journal, said @UBC_Arts @UBC_CS Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed. via @Nature

Amid the increasing urgency of the climate crisis, the Communicating Climate Hope conference brings together a diversity of experts—scholars, artists, organizers—to discuss effective strategies to counter eco-grief and to inspire action. Register now. https://t.co/NefzAfOiWb

Congratulations to the newest @UBCLinguistics PhD, Dr. Rose Underhill! She successfully defended her thesis "Expressing multiplicity in Ktunaxa: groups, sentience, and the structure of number" July 15

Study Shows That ChatGPT Can Identify 100 Languages Almost Perfectly https://t.co/g0v6jA6cun #AI #chatgpt @UBCLangScis @UBCLinguistics @UBCiSchool @UBC_CS @IfeAdebara @WeiRuiChen01 @mageed @mbzuai @UBC