Short-term and Pilot Projects
Many of these are waiting for personnel to launch or bring to conclusion. They are often appropriate for a term project or an independent study project. Let us know if you are interested!
- MELDing the gap. Field linguists are not computational linguists (generally). Machine learning models can be trained to automatically predict linguistic analyses for new languages. But this does not benefit the ordinary working linguist if it is not in a format they are used to. Model predictions need to be converted to formats that can be imported to interfaces popular among linguists (e.g. FLEx and ELAN)
- Hoarding Language? Clinicians in the UF Department of Psychiatry who diagnose people with hoarding disorder have reported they can predict whether someone will be diagnosed with this late onset mental disorder just by talking with them. Do they use language differently? If so, how? Can AI system diagnose hoarding through language before other symptoms have manifested?
- Language Documentation and Description.