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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 for language and AI researc…

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 for language and AI researc…

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 works on multilingualism, first …

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 Science and Technology; Barbara…

Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, University of Cambridge; Christelle Langley, University of Cambridge, and Victoria Leong, University of CambridgeIQ 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 IQ scores of famous people. But t…

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, network science and natural languag…

Professor Ianthi Tsimplitalks 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 connecting professionals working …

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 parsing during reading, learning …

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 AI to improve our learning. …

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 change in computational way…

An article by Stefanie Ullmann, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Centre for the Humanities and Social Change, University of CambridgeHave you ever wondered what flirting with artificial intelligence would look like? Research scientist and engineer Janelle Shane has given us an idea by training a neural network – an algorithm loosely inspired by bio…

Congratulations to Professors Marta Mirazon Lahr and Geoffrey Khan, who have each won advanced grants from the European Research Council, Europe's premier research funding body.Marta Mirazon Lahr, from the Department of Archaeology, was awarded funding for her NGIPALAJEM project, which will bring a new understanding of how the evolution of our spec…

In her recent TEDxCambridgeUniversity talk Cambridge Language Sciences network member Dr Dora Alexopoulou discusses the positive impact of learning activities that reflect how learners' native language influences second language learning.Multilingualism is more important than ever in an increasingly interconnected world: languages are important for…

An article by Stefanie Ullmann, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge and Danielle Saunders, Research Student, Department of Engineering, University of CambridgeOnline translation tools have helped us learn new languages, communicate across linguistic borders, and view foreign websites in our native tongue. But the artificial int…

We are delighted to announce that three more projects have been awarded seed funding through the Language Sciences Incubator Fund.Successful applicantsSuccessful applicants from the latest call, which closed in February 2021, were announced on 1 March.All three projects address highly-topical research questions with potentially significant societal…