by Colin | Jan 11, 2017 | news, soapbox |
The US government recently formed an Interagency Working Group on Language and Communication (IWGLC) to look into the scope of research and development activity across around 15 different government agencies. This may sound like a total snoozefest, but it’s...
by Colin | May 25, 2015 | news, team |
Congratulations to Shota Momma and Ming Xiang on winning grants from the National Science Foundation. Both awards will support research on key problems in language processing, highlighted by properties of East Asian languages. Shota, currently a 4th year PhD student, ...
by Colin | Apr 26, 2015 | events, news, soapbox, training |
I was pretty skeptical. The instructions were to show up at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute at the designated time, to prepare nothing in advance, and then to sit in front of a public audience with half a dozen strangers and make interesting conversation for 90...
by Colin | Apr 5, 2015 | news, projects, soapbox, team, training |
We recently received a $3M training grant from the National Science Foundation (again!). We’re thrilled, surprised, and a bit daunted. And we’re also getting lots of questions. What makes for a strong funding proposal? And what does it take to build a successful...
by Colin | Nov 28, 2014 | news, papers, projects |
If I’m hurriedly packing to go home to Blighty for a few days, I’ll likely pull out a raincoat. It’s a safe bet, right? But if I have a little more time on my hands, I might look up the detailed forecast, and find that it’s more likely to snow (a rare event in the...
by Colin | Sep 28, 2014 | news, projects |
A conversation in a subway station with a senior professor when I was a frustrated graduate student really stuck with me. I think I must have been lamenting my bad fortunes in the conference submission game. I figured that the star professor didn’t have to deal with...
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