Assistant Research Professor and Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) member Tom Lippincott has received a primary appointment in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Starting on July 1, Lippincott will assume the position of Director of Digital Humanities for the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute (AGHI). He will also hold secondary appointments in […]
Laureano Moro-Velazquez, an assistant research scientist in the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP), recently received the Best PhD Thesis Award at Iberspeech 2021. Iberspeech 2021, which was held virtually from March 24-25, is meant to highlight the work of scientists from Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries. Every two years, the conference’s committee awards […]
The National Science Foundation has selected Vishal Patel, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing, for its Early CAREER Award, which recognizes early stage scholars with high levels of promise and excellence. Using the $500,000, five-year award, Patel and his team aim to […]
More than 50% of Americans will be diagnosed with a mental illness at some point in their lifetimes, and one in five will experience mental health challenges, such as anxiety and depression, in any given year. Left untreated, mental illness results in everything from lost productivity and bad relationships to substance use disorders and suicide. […]
Sabrina Mielke, a first-generation college graduate who immigrated from Germany to the United States, says she first discovered her interest in computer science in middle school during a trip to her local library. “It was a magical place where you could browse the internet using ‘Google’ to research anything,” said Mielke. To learn more about […]
A paper by Center for Language and Speech Processing assistant research scientist Piotr Żelasko was featured in the September edition of an Association for Computational Linguistics’ newsletter that shares recent developments in computational typology and multilingual natural language processing. “The paper’s inclusion says that the contribution is interesting to the broader community of speech and […]
