C.M. Downey
@cmdowney
Asst. professor at @UofR Ling and Data Science | NLP for low-resource, endangered, and Indigenous languages | formerly @uwlinguistics, @uwnlp
Correction: this cycle I will be recruiting into the Linguistics program ONLY. Students with a CS background can still pursue NLP research with me, but they will take the Ling core curriculum, and an emphasis on less-studied languages is desired. My apologies for any confusion
📣 I'm recruiting PhD students this cycle! Researchers interested in expanding NLP for mid- and low-resource languages - and/or developing tools for endangered languages and field linguistics - should apply to work with me either through the UR Ling or CS PhD programs!
One week (ish) left to apply: I'm recruiting Linguistics PhD students to come work with me on getting NLP to work for as wide a range of languages as possible! Apply below by December 1 sas.rochester.edu/lin/graduate/a…
@tylerachang and my paper “When is Multilinguality a Curse?” was awarded outstanding paper! Thank you @emnlpmeeting ❤️
Announcing the 20 **Outstanding Papers** for #EMNLP2024
Reminder that I'm recruiting NLP-oriented Linguistics PhD students with a passion for low-resource languages this cycle! Applications are due December 1 (see link). I'll be at #EMNLP2024 next week if anyone wants to chat, so feel free to reach out! sas.rochester.edu/lin/graduate/a…
What's the only thing better than NASSLLI (North American Summer School for Logic, Language and Information)? Summer in Seattle! Luckily, you can have both: I'm hosting NASSLLI at UW this summer. nasslli25.shane.st Please share widely, submit proposals, and attend!
Happy to say that this work has been accepted to Findings of #EMNLP2024! Thanks to my fantastic co-authors for getting it across the finish line. I'll probably come to Miami to present it, so come say hi if you find the work interesting!
Preprint! We test methods to adapt a crosslingual model to a language family, and argue for targeted multilinguality as a middle ground for low-resource langs, avoiding the "curse of multilinguality" arxiv.org/abs/2405.12413 w/@TerraBlvns, @quirkyDhwani, @dwija_parikh, @ssshanest
A bit belated, but I finished my PhD! Can't express enough thanks to my amazing advisors @ssshanest and Gina for their investment in my time at UW. Excited for my next adventure of joining the faculty at the University of Rochester!
We are hiring @MasakhaneNLP The Masakhane Research Foundation, through the support of FAIR Forward, an initiative of the German Development Cooperation (GIZ), is glad to announce two Data Governance Fellowship positions. ->Open Positions masakhane.io/open-positions
Thrilled to say that I'll be joining the University of Rochester departments of Linguistics and Data Science (@UofRDataSci) this Fall as an assistant professor! My lab will be focused on all things low-resource NLP, especially where useful for endangered and minoritized languages