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Annual Symposium speaker profile: Oliver Lemon

21 September 2023

Oliver Lemon is Professor of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, where he is also Director of the Interaction Lab, and Academic Co-Lead of the National Robotarium . He also co-founded the Conversational AI spin-out company Alana AI . His research involves Artificial Intelligence techniques related to...

Annual Symposium speaker profile: Rosemary Varley

22 August 2023

Rosemary Varley is Professor of Acquired Language Disorders at University College London (UCL). Her research focuses on the cognitive neuroscience of speech and language, in particular language disorders in post-stroke aphasia and dementia, and the role of language in non-verbal cognition. Her work uses a range of methods...

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Multicoloured and Melodious workshop brings endangered Mexican languages to Cambridge

9 August 2023

Exploring connections between musical heritage, art, archaeology and the ethnolinguistics of the Americas was the focus of a recent workshop co-sponsored by the Language Sciences Impact Fund . The Multicoloured and Melodious Dimensions of the Americas workshop, co-sponsored by the Language Sciences Impact Fund and CRASSH...

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Annual Symposium speaker profile: Micol Spitale

2 August 2023

Micol Spitale is a postdoctoral researcher at the Cambridge Affective Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory (AFAR Lab). Her research focuses on different aspects of affective computing and human-robot interaction. Her postdoctoral research at Cambridge has been on developing a Socio-emotionally Adaptive Robotic (ARoEQ)...

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Language and AI: Guy Emerson on using AI with language data

2 August 2023

It's a funny time to be working on language and AI. A year ago, this might have seemed like a niche interest, but these days ‘large language model’ is practically a household term. I recently had the chance to speak about language and AI at an event run by the Centre for Science and Policy , and I thought I would write a...

New global humanities website highlights the impact of Cambridge research into multilingualism

10 July 2023

The new Cambridge Global Humanities: Multilingualism website is part of the Global Humanities initiative set up by the School of Arts and Humanities in 2020. The site offers information about research and events in languages, multilingualism and language contact at Cambridge. It also features related research projects on...

Delegates networking over lunch at the Language Sciences knowledge exchange workshop in June 2023

Language Sciences workshop helps build partnerships with local clinicians for research impact

4 July 2023

A workshop organised by Cambridge Language Sciences (CLS) brought together language researchers and local clinicians for an afternoon of networking and knowledge exchange. The aim was to learn more about each other’s work and explore opportunities for collaboration as a route to research impact. The workshop was attended...

Language Sciences Impact Fund projects announced May 2023

11 May 2023

We are delighted to announce that four projects have been awarded funding through the newly established Language Sciences Impact Fund . The Fund, which ran for the first time this year, supports impact-related activities in the language sciences. The aim is to increase engagement with non-academic partners such as health...

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Language Sciences Incubator Fund projects announced March 2023

29 March 2023

We are delighted to announce that two new projects have been awarded seed funding through the Language Sciences Incubator Fund. The successful applicants from the latest call were announced on 29 March 2023. We would like to congratulate all concerned and thank the reviewers for giving their time to evaluate the proposals...

Language researchers develop new method for measuring vowel sounds

7 March 2023

In a paper selected for the front cover of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) James Burridge and Bert Vaux present a new method for the low dimensional measurement of vowels using machine perception . This method could eventually improve our ability to measure how the set of vowel sounds varies between...

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