UBC Language Sciences Institute
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Home of UBC's Language Sciences Institute, promoting interdisciplinary research into, and learning about, language.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined January 2016
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 :)
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RT @mageed: ️Today we announce 🌴 Palm, our largest community project to date. Thrilled to share “🌴 Palm: A Culturally Inclusive and Lingu….
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RT @mageed: @ubcscience @UBC_Arts @UBCLinguistics @UBCiSchool @UBC_CS @UBCLangScis Community projects are very time-consuming, but are extr….
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RT @mageed: I am thrilled to introduce our new Nature Communications paper "π-PrimeNovo: an accurate and efficient non-autoregressive deep….
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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!
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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: #Linguistics #Research #codirector
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RT @JoashJG: My first intellectual baby's out! Check out: "Learn Swahili in a Fun Way: A Linguistic Approach - Book Launch Event" https://t….
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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: @UBCLinguistics @UBCAnth
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Nov 28: RSVP here if you haven't already!
Join Raey Costain and Cal Smith as they present their research on how visual methods such as comic drawing have a unique capacity to explore and document human stories in the past and present. Bring pen and paper for a reflective “scribble comic” activity.
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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: #amdo #tibetan #anthropology
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“Asking the right questions” – On AI’s untapped potential for journalism: Join Dr. Hermida's talk on AI & Journalism with Language Sciences next Wednesday October 30th. Details here: #journalism #AI.
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Watch @dr_kassan discuss Child Language Brokering on @CTVCalgary: . Her new book on the topic, “Beyond Translation”, is now available. #translation #Immigration #family #ubc
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Read Dr. @rondarvin's interview on #GenAI & Learning. This is part 1 or our new LangSci Meets #AI Series!
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Join Colloquim Series with Dr. Marco Jacquemet: Transidioma Afloat – Communication, Power, and Migration in the Mediterranean Sea on Oct 17.
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Transidioma Afloat: Communication, Power, and Migration in the Mediterranean Sea. Speaker: Dr. Marco Jacquemet Communications Studies, University of San Francisco When & Where: Thursday, Oct. 17,...
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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: #AI #journalism
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RT @UBCNews: AI is making it more difficult to detect plagiarism in scientific papers. AI tools can be prompted to paraphrase in sophistic….
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RT @UBC_PH: Amid the increasing urgency of the climate crisis, the Communicating Climate Hope conference brings together a diversity of exp….
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RT @UBCLinguistics: Congratulations to the newest @UBCLinguistics PhD, Dr. Rose Underhill! She successfully defended her thesis "Expressin….
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RT @realmargaretta: Study Shows That ChatGPT Can Identify 100 Languages Almost Perfectly #AI #chatgpt @UBCLangScis….
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There are about 7,000 languages spoken worldwide. Researchers at University of British Columbia and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), found that ChatGPT is able to...
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