• (November 17, 2023) Presenté mi trabajo “Reconocimiento automático del habla de kichwa para su inclusión y empoderamiento en el ciberespacio” en el VI Seminario Internacional Revitalizando Ando que tuvo lugar en la Universidad Politécnica Salesiana de Quito, Ecuador.
• (September 16, 2023) I gave an informal presentation in our NLP group’s meeting about my recent research updates in linguistics (syntax). I personally think the idea is cool and exciting, so I share my handout here: [handout]
• (September 8, 2023) I gave a talk “UD-Tatar NMCTT Treebank: Issues in Annotation across Turkic UD” at the Turkic UD Workshop! [Slides]
• (August 22, 2023) I presented a poster “Universal automatic phonetic transcription into the International Phonetic Alphabet” at INTERSPEECH 2023!
• (August 4, 2023) I presented my work “Grammaticalization of modal nominal predicates in Tatar” at the 21st International Conference on Turkish Linguistics! [Slides]
• (July 26, 2023) I gave an online talk titled “Bridging Natural Language Processing and Descriptive Linguistics with Universal Dependencies” at the Field Linguistics Workshop hosted by the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. My slides are available here (in Japanese).
• (July 23, 2023) I presented my poster “Japanese gapless relativization: The syntax–prosody interface to semantics” at the 28th Annual Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference.
• (July 14, 2023) I presented my poster “Incorporating AI-based Speech Transcription into Language Documentation: A case study of Imbabura Kichwa” at the LSA Institute.
• (June 16, 2023) I attended the LSA Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, for four weeks, with generous support by the Kellogg Institute.
• (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!
• (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 14, 2023) I presented two papers (UD Japanese with morphology and Okinawan UD) 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いました。
• (March 11, 2023) I presented my work “Introducing Morphology in Universal Dependencies Japanese” at Universal Dependencies Workshop (UDW2023) held at Georgetown University Round Table (GURT2023).
• (February 3, 2023) I am now a doctoral student affiliate at the Kellogg Institute.
• (January 8, 2023) I presented my project “Building an automatic Speech-to-IPA system” at IEEE SLT-Code Hackathon.
• (January 5, 2023) Happy New Year! My first linguistics paper has just been published in The Proceedings of the LFG’22 Conference.