Katrin Erk, our new colleague jointly appointed with CICS, and Joe Pater have been awarded grants from the new HFA/CICS Collaborative Seed Fund. Katrin’s project is a collaboration with Brendan O’Connor of CICS is entitled “Computationally analyzing centuries of U.S. legal argumentation in linguistic and historical context”. Joe’s collaboration with Virginia Partridge of the CICS Center for Data Science is on “AI-assisted analysis of phonological variation in English”.

Congratulations Katrin, Joe, Brendan and Virginia!