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Read more at: Centre for Human Inspired Artificial Intelligence Announces Funding Partnership with Google
CHIA Research Day

Centre for Human Inspired Artificial Intelligence Announces Funding Partnership with Google

We are delighted to share that the Centre for Human Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA), directed by MMLL's Professor Anna Korhonen, has just announced a funding partnership with Google to facilitate AI research.


Read more at: Data Science in UK secondary education: supporting the hmanities and languages

Data Science in UK secondary education: supporting the hmanities and languages

Join us for a workshop to explore how data science might build on the rapid expansion of online learning platforms in UK schools to improve the language development and writing skills of students in the humanities and languages in the UK state school sector.


Read more at: Professor Kasia Jaszczolt’s new book

Professor Kasia Jaszczolt’s new book

Professor Kasia Jaszczolt’s new book Semantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy: A Journey Through Meaning is available from Cambridge University Press from March 2023


Read more at: Cambridge Language Sciences supports ultrasound tongue imaging workshop for language scientists

Cambridge Language Sciences supports ultrasound tongue imaging workshop for language scientists

What does your tongue do when you speak? Dr Calbert Graham , Senior Research Associate in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (part of MMLL) convened a workshop about ultrasound tongue imaging. Recent advances in technology mean that ultrasound is an increasingly useful tool for speech research. The two-day gathering...


Read more at: Global Humanities and Multilingualism at Cambridge University

Global Humanities and Multilingualism at Cambridge University

In a new film, members of the Faculty talk about the exciting research on multilingualism they are conducting and its real-world impact on the lives of young people and adults in the UK and beyond. This includes raising learning outcomes across the world and supporting refugees coming to the UK. The research has also...


Read more at: Dr Ivan Vulić wins Microsoft-BCS/BCS-IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award

Dr Ivan Vulić wins Microsoft-BCS/BCS-IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award

We are happy to share the exciting news that Dr Ivan Vulić ( Language Technology Laboratory , Theoretical and Applied Linguistics) has won the prestigious Microsoft-BCS/BCS-IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award . Karen Spärck Jones FBA was a highly accomplished computer scientist in the University of Cambridge. From 2008, the...


Read more at: ESRC DTP Knowledge Exchange PhD studentship

ESRC DTP Knowledge Exchange PhD studentship

The University of Cambridge ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership [DTP], in collaboration with Oxford Wave Research , is offering a PhD studentship for admission in October 2022 in the Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Section , University of Cambridge. The three-year doctoral programme will be co-supervised by Dr Kirsty...


Read more at: Cambridge researchers awarded best long paper in top AI conference

Cambridge researchers awarded best long paper in top AI conference

Congratulations to Fangyu Liu and Nigel Collier, who have recently been awarded the Best Long Paper Award at the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), together with collaborators from McGill University and the University of Copenhagen. The award winning paper, "Visually grounded...


Read more at: About Language & AI: Interviews by Cambridge Language Sciences

About Language & AI: Interviews by Cambridge Language Sciences

Happy to share four excellent interviews published by the Cambridge Language Sciences Interdisciplinary Research Centre, two of which feature academics from MMLL.


Read more at: TAL Student Ariwan Kai Addy Suhairi Wins 2021 LAGB Dissertation Prize

TAL Student Ariwan Kai Addy Suhairi Wins 2021 LAGB Dissertation Prize

We are proud to share the news that undergraduate TAL student, Ariwan Kai Addy Suhairi, has won one of the LAGB dissertation prizes for 2021.