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Congratulations to Dr. Peng! He is on the Stanford University's World's Top 2% of Scientists List!

STANFORD UNIVERSITY NAMES WORLD’S TOP 2% SCIENTISTS, 2023For the fourth consecutive year, Prof. Ashraf Nabhan, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology is named in the world’s top 2% of Scientists List of 2023.

Brown Bag Talks:

Brown Bag TalksBrown Bag Talks College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) [Supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation: Grant No. 1048406] The purpose of the group is to discuss issues in large datasets, language and speech processing. We are hoping to bring our cross-disciplinary strengths to these areas, to share ideas, to discuss the current state […]

Multilingual Euphemism Detection Shared Task

We are holding the Fourth Multilingual Euphemism Detection Shared Task as part of the Fourth Workshop on Figurative Language Processing, co-located with NAACL 2024.

FigLang2024 - Call for PapersProcessing of figurative language is a rapidly growing area in NLP, including computational modeling of metaphors, idioms, puns, irony, sarcasm, simile, and other figures. Characteristic to all areas of human activity (from poetic, ordinary, scientific, social media) and, thus, to all types of

April 19, 2024 - Alumni Event

We hosted an alumni event to bring together current and former students and faculty of the Linguistics Department. The event also included a panel of alumni from a variety of career paths and degree programs. Current students asked questions about panelists' linguistics training and job outside of academia.

IMPRESS-U Award

Dr. Feldman and Dr. Peng received an NSF IMPRESS-U (https://www.nsf.gov/od/oise/IntlCollaborations/Ukraine.jsp) award! They will collaborate with Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Dr. Iryna Dilai) and Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences (Dr. Witold Kieraś)!

Linguistics Department Interviewed on Lost in Jersey PodcastThe podcast Lost in Jersey interviewed six members of the Linguistics Department in an episode released on Tuesday, February 6. The faculty showcase the diverse areas of research and the impact of language on various aspects of our lives. From computational linguistics to language acquisition and cultural linguistics, their work sheds light on the intricacies […]

Our very own Raz Besaleli, is Founding Head of AI at SeekAI. They've just recently raised $7.5m of seed funding.

Montclair Graduate Student Building $7.5 Million AI CompanyRaz Besaleli successfully navigating Computational Linguistics master’s degree, rapidly changing artificial intelligence landscape

Women’s Club of Glen Ridge. Invited lecture: AI: Generative Artificial Technology (March 1, 2024)

Dr. Feldman discussed the transformative power of Generative AI, its applications in creating new content, and the ethical concerns it raises.

Henry Chapman Night - Artificial IntelligenceFri 1 Mar, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM [EST]: ONLINE REGISTRATION CLOSED Please join us on Friday, March 1 at 7:00 pm to celebrate the legacy of the Club's original benefactor, Henry Chapman. You're cordially invited to an insightful presentation

Montclair Film Festival: Panel: What Is The Future of Artificial Intelligence (October 22,2023)

Dr. Anna Feldman joins Stephen Colbert for In-Depth Panel on AI's Impact on Creativity, Film, and TV's Future. A panel of esteemed thinkers, moderated by Stephen Colbert, discuss and explore the challenges created and opportunities made available by AI.

Panel: What Is The Future of Artificial Intelligence? | Montclair FilmThe growth of Artificial Intelligence tools has created a sudden and urgent need to grapple with our collective future— can we harness the power of AI to improve our quality of life and expand acce...

Montclair Film: Science on Screen: "No Scent of a Woman" (July 13, 2023)

Dr. Anna Feldman gives a pre-film talk on the current state of generative AI and explores themes of human-machine relationships in Spike Jonze’s film HER.

Montclair State Researchers Work to Ensure the Free Flow of InformationProfessors and graduate students in new Computational Linguistics program are taking on computational challenges to tackle censorship and improve machine translation of languages

Language Lovers Find Connections with STEM, HumanitiesMontclair State students have a voice in wide-ranging research in computational and applied linguistics

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Brown Bag Talks:

2022 Workshop on NLP4IF: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda

The Fourth Workshop on Figurative Language Processing

2024 NACLO at Montclair State University