About

I’m Chihiro Taguchi, a full-time language lover. I’m a PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of Notre Dame, USA, as part of the Natural Language Processing group led by Dr. David Chiang.

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• CV
• Presentations / Publications

Interests

• Linguistics
  • Turkic (Tatar)
  • Theoretical syntax (Minimalist syntax, Lexical-Functional Grammar)
  • Morphology, Formal semantics, Phonology
  • Language documentation
• Natural Language Processing & Computational Linguistics
  • Low-resource languages
  • Corpus (Universal Dependencies)
  • Computational morphology
  • Phonetic representation
• Recent language learning
  • Mandarin Chinese
  • Kichwa
  • Spanish
  • Let me know if you are interested in language exchange with me.

News

• (May 17, 2023) My paper “Universal automatic phonetic transcription into the International Phonetic Alphabet” was accepted to INTERSPEECH 2023. See you in Dublin!
• (May 15, 2023) I started my fieldwork on the Kichwa language in Quito, Ecuador, with generous support by the Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures. I am preparing language resources for computational and educational use, as well as investigating some interesting grammatical phenomena in Kichwa. Stay tuned!
• (May 8, 2023) My paper “Grammaticalization of modal nominal predicates in Tatar” was accepted to the 21st International Conference of Turkic Linguistics!
• (March 29, 2023) My paper “Japanese gapless relativization: The syntax–prosody interface to semantics” was accepted to the LFG23 Conference!
• (March 16, 2023) My poster presentation Universal Dependencies Japanese with Morphological Features at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP2023) received the Committee’s Honorable Mention! 言語処理学会2023の私の発表「形態論情報付きUniversal Dependencies」に対して委員特別賞をいただきました。ご興味を持ってくださった皆さん、ありがとうございました。
• (March 7, 2023) I am presenting two papers at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP2023) in Okinawa, Japan! 言語処理学会2023にて二つのポスター発表を行う予定です。学会参加予定の方はぜひお会いしましょう！
• (February 3, 2023) I am now a doctoral student affiliate at the Kellogg Institute!
• (January 11, 2023) My paper “Introducing Morphology in Universal Dependencies Japanese” has been accepted to the Universal Dependencies Workshop (UDW2023) at Georgetown University Round Table (GURT2023). See you in Washington D.C.!
• (January 8, 2023) I presented my project “Building an automatic Speech-to-IPA system” at IEEE SLT-Code Hackathon. Check out one of our models here!
• (January 5, 2023) Happy New Year! My first linguistics journal paper has just been published in The Proceedings of the LFG’22 Conference.
• (October 29, 2022) Slides for my presentation at the 33rd South of England LFG Meeting.
• (October 13, 2022) I received my Master’s degree in Linguistics by Research with Distinction from the University of Edinburgh! My master’s thesis is available from here (Sorry for silly typos in there).

Contact

Notre Dame: c[ my surname ] at nd.edu

More about me

• I pronounce my name as [ta˥gɯ˩t͡ɕi̥˩ t͡ɕi̥˩çi̥˥ɾ̞o˥], since my Japanese does a lot of devoicing.