It's out! The second (bigger and better) edition of Dan Jurafsky and Jim Martin's epic tome Speech and Language Processing is now available at discerning booksellers everywhere..... Yaay! For those of you trying to meet with Dan, he's got more free time now!

By the way, Dan's Winter seminar on food was recently featured in Stanford's Interaction publication. Check it out here

And Ling alum Smita Joshi was quoted extensively in last week's edition of the Palo Alto Weekly. Check out the on-line version here.

Uriel Cohen Priva, Asya Perelstsvaig and Adrian Brasoveanu are all off to UCLA for WCCFL this weekend. They're talking about:

• Using Information Content to Predict Phone Deletion (Uriel)
• Russian -nibud Items as Dependent Indefinites (Asya), and
• Sentence-Internal Readings of Same/Different as Quantifier-Internal Anaphora (Adrian)

Asya is also giving a colloquium at UC Santa Cruz on May 29. Yet another talk on the infamous TBA topic ...

Here's Bruno Estigarribia and Ellen McLarney with kid. Apparently, what they're trying to tell us is that they're expecting another one sometime around October 1. Congratulations from the whole department! We're all coming down to Durham to see him/her in November. Hope you've got a lot of spare rooms...

Two weeks ago, it was Jason Grafmiller who correctly identified the mystery name (it was "Eve"). If you know whose name is rendered in this spectogram, be the first to find Meghan and make her give you a treat!


Mystery Name 7

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For events farther in the future consult the Upcoming Events Page.

FRIDAY, 16 MAY

• Speech Lunch

  Grant McGuire (Berkeley)
  The role of experience in the use of phonetic cues
  12 PM, Ex Lab

• Linguistics Department Colloquium

  Judith Irvine (University of Michigan)
  How Mr. Taylor lost his footing: The Sociolinguistics of Stance in a Colonial Encounter
  3:30pm, MJH 126

• Weekly Social!

  5:00, department lounge
  

MONDAY, 19 MAY

• Phonology Workshop

  TBA
  3:15pm, MJH 126

TUESDAY, 20 MAY

• NLP Reading Group

  Jenny Finkel
  "Scalable Models of Real Graphs"
  1:00 PM, Gates 159

WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY

• Psychology Developmental Brownbag

  Wei Quin Yow
  Bilingual children's heightened awareness of social-pragmatic cues
  12:00pm, 420-102

THURSDAY, 22 MAY

• SRI AI Seminar Series

  Nate Chambers
  "Unsupervised Discovery of Narratives from Text"
  4:00pm, EJ228 SRI International

FRIDAY, 23 MAY

• Speech Lunch

  Meghan Clayards (U of Rochester)
  TBA
  12 PM, Ex Lab

• Construction of Meaning Workshop

  Chris Potts (UMass Amherst)
  "Pragmatic Enrichment via Expressive Content"
  3:30pm, MJH 126

• UCSC Linguistics Colloquium

  Daniel Buring (UCLA)
  Title TBA
  4:00pm, Humanities One, Room 202, UCSC

• Weekly Social!

  5:00, department lounge
  

UPCOMING EVENTS (always under construction)

LINGUISTIC DEPARTMENT EVENTS PAGE

Got broader interests? The New Sesquipedalian recommends reading or even subscribing to the CSLI Calendar, available HERE.

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