UW Professional Master’s in Computational Linguistics

08/31/2023

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

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...

08/31/2023

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.

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.

05/06/2023

Congratulations to our Winter Quarter 2023 graduates!

Andy Lapastora
Michael K. Scott
Zhongwen Lian

🎉🎉🎉🎓🎓🎓

03/31/2023

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).

Join us for an information session to learn more about this program's curriculum, format, time commitment and more.

01/19/2023

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

01/14/2023

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

🎉🎉🎉🎓🎓🎓

01/07/2023

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

https://www.americandialect.org/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…

12/09/2022

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/

11/28/2022

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

https://literature-clock.jenevoldsen.com/?sfw=yes

11/15/2022

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.

https://compling.uw.edu/event/?sfid=7015G000001P1DkQAK

10/14/2022

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.

https://www.aiweirdness.com/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

09/16/2022

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:

https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/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

09/09/2022

Congratulations to our Summer 2022 graduates!

Akil Iyer
Allison Dods
Andrew Briand
Chirag Soni
Clevis Willrich
Connor Boyle
David Krug
Hanshu Ding
Jesse Raymond Mena
Jimmy Bruno
Qingyang Wang
Rosetta Pendleton
Shammie Debnath
Xu Yan

09/09/2022

All videos from ACL 2022 and NAACL 2022 are now available for free.

ACL: https://underline.io/events/284/schedule
NAACL: https://underline.io/events/325/schedule

Catch CLMS Faculty Director in the NAACL Panel Discussion from July 12 on "The Place of Linguistics and Symbolic Structures"

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07/15/2022

Congratulations to our Spring Quarter 2022 graduates!

Anjali Bhavan
Amy Chen
Yige Chen
Nathaniel Imel
Kunal Kukreja
Ritika Ravichandra
Shivin Thukral

07/07/2022

Faculty Director Prof. Emily M. Bender recently appeared on the podcast Factually! with Adam Conover:

https://www.earwolf.com/episode/the-real-problem-with-a-i-with-emily-bender/

Is artificial intelligence a problem, or is the real problem how we’re using the term in the first place? Linguistics professor Emily Bender joins Adam to discuss why we should resist the urge to be impressed when it comes to big tech’s AI promises, and how our belief in the fantasy of A.I.

07/07/2022

NAACL 2022 will be coming to Seattle next week! Follow along on Twitter with the hashtag

Conference program here: 2022.naacl.org

03/15/2022

CLMS Faculty Director Emily M. Bender is presenting a paper at CHIIR 2022 this week (together with Prof. Chirag Shah of the UW iSchool). UW News provided a write up here:
https://www.washington.edu/news/2022/03/14/qa-preserving-context-and-user-intent-in-the-future-of-web-search

In a new perspective paper, University of Washington professors Emily M. Bender and Chirag Shah respond to proposals that reimagine web search as an application for large language model-driven...