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Read more at: About Language & AI: an interview with Tamsin Blaxter
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About Language & AI: an interview with Tamsin Blaxter

28 July 2021

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an increasingly central aspect of language science research encompassing many areas from digital humanities and corpus linguistics, NLP applications like speech recognition and chat bots, to the use of machine learning to model human cognition. Cambridge University is a world-leading centre...


Read more at: About Language & AI: an interview with Guy Emerson
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About Language & AI: an interview with Guy Emerson

27 July 2021

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an increasingly central aspect of language science research encompassing many areas from digital humanities and corpus linguistics, NLP applications like speech recognition and chat bots, to the use of machine learning to model human cognition. Cambridge University is a world-leading centre...


Read more at: Professor Ianthi Tsimpli elected to British Academy
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Professor Ianthi Tsimpli elected to British Academy

23 July 2021

Many congratulations to Professor Ianthi Tsimpli on her election to the Fellowship of the British Academy. Professor Tsimpli , Professor of English and Applied Linguistics, Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, is a former co-Director of Cambridge Language Sciences (CLS) and currently sits on the CLS Management Committee. She...


Read more at: Cambridge Language Sciences Symposium for Early-Career Researchers 2021
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Cambridge Language Sciences Symposium for Early-Career Researchers 2021

30 June 2021

This year’s Language Sciences Symposium for Early-Career Researchers took place on Thursday 24 June. The event, now in its fourth year, celebrates work by early-career researchers working in the field of language sciences. We were delighted to welcome keynote presenters from across the University: Ahmed Zaidi , Computer...


Read more at: IQ tests can’t measure it, but ‘cognitive flexibility’ is key to learning and creativity
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IQ tests can’t measure it, but ‘cognitive flexibility’ is key to learning and creativity

28 June 2021

Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian , University of Cambridge ; Christelle Langley , University of Cambridge , and Victoria Leong , University of Cambridge IQ is often hailed as a crucial driver of success, particularly in fields such as science, innovation and technology. In fact, many people have an endless fascination with the...


Read more at: June Symposium speaker profile: Sarah Morgan
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June Symposium speaker profile: Sarah Morgan

9 June 2021

Sarah Morgan is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology , a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Psychiatry , University of Cambridge, and a Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute . Her research applies data science approaches – including machine learning...


Read more at: Empowering education professionals to assess English
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Empowering education professionals to assess English

8 June 2021

Professor Ianthi Tsimpli talks about the new MSt in English Language Assessment which will be delivered in partnership with the Institute of Continuing Education , Cambridge Language Sciences and Cambridge Assessment English . A new Master’s at ICE aims to train the next generation of language assessment specialists by...


Read more at: June Symposium speaker profile: Margreet Vogelzang
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June Symposium speaker profile: Margreet Vogelzang

7 June 2021

Margreet Vogelzang is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge Section of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. She researches different aspects of language processing using a combination of psycholinguistic, neuroscientific, statistical and cognitive modeling methods. Her current research on syntactic...


Read more at: June Symposium speaker profile: Ahmed Zaidi
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June Symposium speaker profile: Ahmed Zaidi

1 June 2021

Ahmed Zaidi is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology, and a member of the Institute of Automated Language Teaching and Assessment (ALTA) . His research focuses on machine learning for educational applications – how we learn, and how we can use technology and...


Read more at: June Symposium speaker profile: Barbara McGillivray
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June Symposium speaker profile: Barbara McGillivray

25 May 2021

Barbara McGillivray is a senior research associate at the University of Cambridge Section of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Turing Research Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute, and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Open Humanities Data . Her research focuses on how words change meaning over time and how to model this...


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