Computational and Experimental Methods

Beguš and Sprouse (et al.) at Wired Big Interview Science Fair

December 5, 2024
Work by Gašper Beguš and Ronald Sprouse and coauthors has been highlighted at the Science Fair at the WIRED's Big Interview on December 3, 2024. More info about the event: https://events.wired.com/big-interview/home. The preprint is available at https://osf.io/preprints/osf/285cs. Congrats! Vowels in Sperm Whales presentation materials

Beguš in The Harvard Crimson

November 29, 2024
Research by Gašper Beguš has recently been featured in The Harvard Crimson's article titled Are Whales Trying to Tell Us Something? https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/10/26/project-ceti-translating-whales-scrutiny/

Beguš gives two talks

October 22, 2024

Gašper Beguš gave two invited talks:

An invited plenary talk at the Bridging East and West: Cutting-Edge Perspectives in Language and Cognitive Science conference organized by the Beijing Language and Culture University on October 20, 2024. His talk was titled "New ways of modeling language". An invited talk titled "Jezikoslovne zmožnosti velikih jezikovnih modelov'' at the Mednarodni dan slovarjev 2024 conference, at the Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language on October 14, 2024.

Congrats!

Script Encoding Initiative awarded Mellon and Internet Society Foundation grants

September 28, 2024

The Script Encoding Initiative led by Anushah Hossain and Deborah Anderson was awarded two grants this summer to continue its work on making writing systems available on digital devices. A four-year grant from the Mellon Foundation will support research on over twenty writing systems that are not yet incorporated in the Unicode Standard, a widely-implemented communication standard. A second two-year grant from the Internet Society Foundation will support science communication projects to demystify SEI’s work on language technologies for public audiences. Visit SEI’s websiteto learn more about their work.

Beguš speaks at Harvard

September 18, 2024

Gašper Beguš is giving a talk at the linguistics department at Harvard University on Friday, September 20 (https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/blog/week-sept-16). The title of the talk is "Building realistic models of language with deep learning". Congrats!

Gašper Beguš

Associate Professor of Linguistics

PhD, Harvard

Phonology, phonetics, computational linguistics, historical linguistics, Indo-European

Galvano and D-Lab at OpenAI Forum's "AI Ethics in Action"

August 27, 2024

This past Wednesday, Amber Galvano and colleagues represented UC Berkeley's D-Lab at the OpenAI Forum's "AI Ethics in Action" virtual event, where they discussed their personal trajectory and experience participating in the Data Science for Social Justice workshop.

Beguš presents two talks

October 26, 2023

Gašper Beguš gave two invited talks this week, one at Stanford NLP Seminar (https://nlp.stanford.edu/seminar/details/gasperbegus_2023.shtml) and the other at the Linguistics Colloquium at UC Davis.

Beguš speaks at U of Arizona

September 26, 2023

Gašper Beguš gave an invited colloquium talk on "Modeling Language as a dependency between the latent space and data" at the University of Arizona's Department of Linguistics on September 22, 2023. The abstract can be found here: https://linguistics.arizona.edu/events/modeling-language-dependency-between-latent-space-and-data