UW Professional Master’s in Computational Linguistics

We are moving our primary social media activity over to LinkedIn. Please come find CLMS there!

Computational Linguistics Master of Science, UW | LinkedIn Computational Linguistics Master of Science, UW | 143 followers on LinkedIn. Computational linguists help machines process human language. All the pioneering language-based technologies in use today — search engines, predictive text messaging, speech recognition, machine translation and voice-user...

Here's an interview of CLMS program director Emily M. Bender on what ChatGPT means for our field and how the CLMS program prepares students to navigate ethical issues in their work.

Emily M. Bender Q&A | UW Computational Linguistics Master's Degree - Online & Seattle Learn more about the current moment for language technology and how the UW's computational linguistics program prepares students to work in the field in this Q&A with program director Emily M. Bender.

Congratulations to our Winter Quarter 2023 graduates!

Andy Lapastora
Michael K. Scott
Zhongwen Lian

🎉🎉🎉🎓🎓🎓

Please join us for an info session webinar with CLMS faculty Prof. Xia and Prof. Levow on our Natural Language Technology Certificate program, this Friday April 7th, 12:30-1:30pm (Pacific Time).

Info Session: Certificate in Natural Language Technology, Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 12:30 p.m. - UW Professional & Continuing Education Join us for an information session to learn more about this program's curriculum, format, time commitment and more.

Want to learn more about CLMS? Join CLMS faculty for an info session webinar Friday January 27, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Pacific Time). Info & RSVP at the link below.
https://compling.uw.edu/event/?sfid=7015G000001P3WXQA0

www.compling.uw.edu

Congratulations to our Autumn Quarter 2022 graduates!

Qingxia Guo
David Yi
Jacob Morrison
Avani Pai
Eric McLachlan
Sanjana Sharma
Sadaf Khan
Kyle Martin
Shannon Keane
Connie Chen
David Roesler
Jih-neng Lin

🎉🎉🎉🎓🎓🎓

The American Dialect Society has completed its Word of the Year selection for 2022:

2022 Word of the Year is “-ussy” Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center–Jan. 6—The American Dialect Society, in its 33rd annual words-of-the-year vote, selected the suffix “-ussy” as the Word of the Year for 2022. More…

The CLMS web page has been updated with a new informational video! Huge thank you to the alumni and current students who agreed to appear :)

https://compling.uw.edu/

This is a delightful application of basic language processing techniques/digital humanities.

Literature Clock

Want to learn more about CLMS? Join CLMS faculty for an info session webinar Friday November 18, 11:30am-12:30pm (Pacific Time). Info & RSVP at the link below.

www.compling.uw.edu

The account AI Weirdness is always a lot of fun. Here, they ask a text-to-image system (DALL-E2) to synthesize images based on strings like "Product photo of the most popular halloween candy bar in Florida" for each state. The resulting images show echoes of the way in which the 50 states are represented in the training data as well as the tendency of DALL-E and its ilk to amusing fail at producing images of text.

Bonus: Halloween candy by state (Unlocked bonus post - longggg bonus post!) What does DALL-E2 generate when I ask it for the most popular Halloween candy of each US state? Each prompt is included in the picture's caption - you can see that after a while I started varying it a bit, first to stop

Randall Monroe (of xkcd) was on Lingthusiasm to talk about linguistics questions in the style of his _What If?_ and _What If? 2_ books and it was epic. Take a listen here:

72: What If Linguistics What’s the “it’s” in “it’s three pm and hot”? How do you write a cough in the International Phonetic Alphabet? Who is the person most likely to speak similarly to a randomly-selected North American En