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The University of Georgia will be hosting the fifth annual Language Varieties in the South (LAVIS) conference in conjunction with the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL) in April of 2024. The conferences, held from April 4th to April 7th, will feature three plenary speakers: Allison Burkette, professor of Linguistics University of Kentucky; Edgar Schneider, Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at Regensburg University; and Laura…

Joey Stanley, Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics, held a series of DIGILab workshops this semester to assist faculty and students with making better visualizations. His most recent workshop with GIS Librarian, Meagan Duever, was titled "Send the right message: The dos and don'ts of color." See the entire list below: 2019 Data Visualization Workshop Series An intro to data visualization in R using gglot2 Customizing your plots to make the perfect…

Philip Resnik is a professor at University of Maryland in the Department of Linguistics and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. He does research in computational linguistics, with interests both in the application of natural language processing techniques to practical problems, and in the modeling of human linguistic processes. He has worked in a wide range of research areas, including core NLP areas like word sense disambiguation,…

Under the auspices of the Franklin College International Faculty Exchange Program, the Linguistics Department will host Dr. Lars Meyer from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. The visit includes a public lecture on February 20th at 4pm entitled "The Neural Oscillations of Language Processing: Examples from German." Dr. Meyer has a research collaboration at UGA with John Hale; Hale will…