Daumé Part of Multidisciplinary Team Awarded $3M NSF Grant

Hal Daumé III, an associate professor of computer science and director of the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Laboratory in UMIACS, is part of a multidisciplinary team tasked with developing and implementing an innovative research and training program in language science at the University of Maryland.

Funded by a $3 million National Science Foundation Research Traineeship award, Daumé and other faculty at Maryland will spearhead a program that arms UMD doctoral students with unique tools and skill sets to advance language technology and language learning.

The program provides trainees with an interdisciplinary understanding of learning models from cross training in linguistics, computer science, and psychological and neural sciences, and with the tools to work with multiscale language data.

“This is a perfect example of computational science partnering with human science,” Daumé says. “The interaction—not only between faculty involved, but certainly amongst the students as well, will allow all of us to share and capitalize on our unique, yet complimentary, skill sets.”

Colin Philips, professor of linguistics and director of the Maryland Language Science Center, is principal investigator of the NSF award.

Daumé is a co-PI, along with Rochelle Newman (hearing and speech sciences), Robert DeKeyser (second language acquisition) and Bill Idsardi (linguistics).

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