NSF awarded a new grant to Prof. Solorio that will support the creation of annotated corpora to study mixed-language sources. This grant is part of a large scale collaborative project with researchers Mona Diab and Julia Hirschberg from Columbia University. The language pairs under study include Spanish-English, Arabic-English, Hindi-English, Mandarin-English and Arabic-Arabic. NSF to Support the Study of Code-switching in Different Language Pairs
Announcements
CAS News
August 02, 2012
NSF awarded a new grant to Prof. Solorio that will support the creation of annotated corpora to study mixed-language sources. This grant is part of a large scale collaborative project with researchers Mona Diab and Julia Hirschberg from Columbia University. The language pairs under study include Spanish-English, Arabic-English, Hindi-English, Mandarin-English and Arabic-Arabic. More News
-
Seventeen CAS faculty members receive promotionsThe College of Arts and Sciences is proud to announce that 17 faculty members across 12 departments have been awarded promotions (including four faculty members who also were awarded tenure). -
CAS launches new Religious Studies minor to help students understand religion’s role in the worldFrom art and politics to history and culture, religion touches nearly every aspect of human life. A new minor in Religious Studies within the College of Arts and Sciences will give students a scholarly way to explore those connections and better understand the role religion plays in the world around them. -
Oct. 14-18, UAB Theatre kicks off season of power plays with “We Are Proud to Present”This meta-theatrical drama by Jackie Sibblies Drury tells the story of six actors wrestling with the history of colonial genocide in Namibia and its impact on human relations in the present day.