All talks in Integrative Learning Center (ILC) S331, also over Zoom. Saturday evening reception in the ILC lobby.
Day 1: July 8, 2023
| 8:30-9:00 Breakfast/coffee/tea |
| COMPUTATIONAL MORNING SESSION: 9:00-12:00 Chair: Brendan O’Connor (UMass Amherst) |
| 9:00-9:40 Bridging Internet Methods with Internet People Gretchen McCulloch (Lingthusiam) 9:40-10:20 When social meaning meets NLP: How can NLP models inform sociolinguistic research and vice versa? Dong Nguyen (Utrecht University) |
| 10:20-10:40 Break |
| 10:40-11:20 Computational Methods for Building Sociolinguistic Corpora: From Social Media to Spoken Language Jacob Eisenstein (Google). Online talk. 11:20-12:00 CORAAL’s Past, Present and Future: Bridging socio, educational, and computational linguistics Charlie Farrington (Virginia Tech) and Tyler Kendall (University of Oregon) |
| 12:00-1:30 Lunch (on your own) |
| COMPUTATIONAL STUDENT SESSION: 1:30-3:00 Chair: Lisa Green (UMass Amherst) |
| 1:30-2:00 Evaluating and Mitigating Inherent Linguistic Bias of African American English through Inference Jamell Dacon (Michigan State). Online talk due to flight cancellation. 2:00-2:30 Exploring the Role of Grammar and Word Choice in Bias Toward African American English (AAE) in Hate Speech Classification Camille Harris (Georgia Tech) 2:30-3:00 Investigating morphosyntactic variation in African American English on Twitter Tessa Masis (UMass Amherst) |
| 3:00-3:20 Break |
| AAL FIELDWORK/EXPERIMENTAL SESSION: 3:20-5:20 Chair: Anissa Neal (UMass Amherst) |
| 3:20-4:00 The Relationship Between School Discipline and Use of Prosodic and Morphosyntactic Features of AAE in Philadelphia Nicole Holliday (Pomona College) and Sabriya Fisher (Wellesley College) 4:00-4:40 Bridging Social and Structural Meaning In African American Language Michael Terry (UNC Chapel Hill) 4:40-5:20 Self-study as Sociolinguistic Method: A Personal Account of Middle-class African American English Tracey L. Weldon (Greenwood Asher & Associates) Online talk due to flight cancellation. |
| 5:20-6:00 Break |
| 6:00-7:30 Networking Reception in ILC lobby (joint with The 2023 Conference on Scholarly Teaching and SoTL in Linguistics) |
Day 2: July 9, 2023
| 8:00-8:30 Breakfast/coffee/tea |
| GRANT GROUP STUDENT SESSION: 8:30-10:00 Chair: Kristine Yu (UMass Amherst) |
| 8:30-9:00 Exploring how context and category can shape BIN, been, and bin Ayana Whitmal (UMass Amherst) 9:00-9:30 Prosodic characteristics of BIN utterances in African American English Alessa Farinella (UMass Amherst) 9:30-10:00 Speaker Identity and Syntactic Expectations: A study of African American Language Anissa Neal (UMass Amherst) |
| 10:00-10:15 Break |
| TUTORIAL: 10:15-11:45 Neural natural language processing methods for linguistic feature detection in sociolinguistic corpora Tessa Masis and Brendan O’Connor (UMass Amherst) |
| 11:45-1:15 Lunch (on your own) |
| PANEL DISCUSSION: 1:15-2:30 |