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A picture of assistant professor Muhammad Abdul-Mageed speaking and Professor Bryan Gick listening against a red wall, with a bookcase in the background
October 7, 2019

UBC launches professional computational linguistics degree to meet industry demand

Photo credit: Vanessa Ho
A graphic of a human brain on a blue background, with microchip connections coming out of it, and four bright lights.
October 2, 2019

Computers can work out your bus journey – and predict dementia

Computers can map your route to work, automatically turn speech into written text - and predict very early stages of dementia with more than 80 per cent accuracy. Language Sciences members Giuseppe Carenini, professor of Computer Science, and Hyeju Jang, Computer Science postdoctoral fellow, worked...