Resources for Linguistic Studies
Linguistics for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Career Opportunities in Linguistics and Computational Linguistics
Last Mile Education Fund- Funding Opportunities for Students Pursuing Tech and Engineering Degrees
Linguistics-themed popular media
Lingthusiasm (This podcast is co-hosted by Lauren Gawne, creator of the Superlingo blog) and Gretchen McCulloch, creator of the All Things Linguistic blog and the award-winning book "Because Internet")
Word of Mouth (This BBC podcast is hosted the children's literature writer Michael Rosen)
Planet Word Lectures on Language and Culture
(Planet Word is a museum dedicated to language, a new landmark in Washington, D.C.)
A collection of Ted talks on language
Fans of CrashCourse will enjoy this linguistics playlist
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences (a blog and podcast featuring well known linguists talking about their research)
Linguist John McWhorter's New York Times newsletter (as UIC member you have free subscription to NY Times)
Resources for studying phonetics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfoRdKuPF9I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7jQ8FELbIo
https://lingthusiasm.com/post/159237203511/lingthusiasm-episode-6-all-the-sounds-in-all-the (This podcast page has the best collection of resources for sounds)
https://enunciate.arts.ubc.ca/
https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/content/ipa-fonts
https://learnipa.group.shef.ac.uk/IPAChart/index.html
Tools
NLP Tools for Social Sciences (an aggregated resource page curated by Dr. Kristopher Kyle, University of Oregon and Dr. Scoff Crossley, Georgia State University).
Voyant - visualize word patterns in texts
Elan - Annotating audio-video recordings
NLTK: Natural Language Processing Toolkit and the free book-length tutorial
R free software for statistical analysis; commonly used in textual analysis
Otranscribe - web-based manual transcription of speech data with built in automatic looper
Otter.Ai - Machine transcription of audio and video recordings, this is the tool behind Zoom's automatic caption service
Audacity - free software to edit sound files
Fonts, software and tools for linguistics
CLOX - an automated transcription tool developed by faculty at the University of Washington Sociolinguistics Laboratory
Online keyboard for IPA symbols
Studying Diversity of Languages of the World
WALS.info World Atlas of Language Structures Online
Ethnologue documents world's diverse languages
Corpora
TalkBank. Database of talk in audio and video
Max Planck Institute Resources and Projects
Linguistics Organizations
Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
International Phonetic Association
Computational Linguistics Professional Organizations
Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI )
ACL's Special Interest Group (SIG) on Linguistic Data & Corpus-based Approaches to Natural Language Processing (SIGDAT)
Tech Resources at UIC
Break Through Tech Chicago is an initiative to support women to pursue higher education and careers in tech. It is in partnership with the Computer Science department at UIC and the second such center in the nation. Led by professionals who understand the importance of gender equality in the tech industry. Break Through Tech Chicago offers professional enrichments, mentoring and internship experiences.
The IDEAL Institute for Data, Econometrics, Algorithms, and Learning (https://www.ideal-institute.org/), a joint research institute between Northwestern, UIC, U Chicago, TTIC, and IIT
ACER Training Series Acer is short for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for Education and Research. It is a branch of Vice Chancellor for Research Innovation. It regularly offers workshops on data analytic tool. Their workshops have limited seating and advanced reservation is recommended.
University Library's Digital Scholarship Hub (3D modeling, Python coding and more)
Supporting Diversity in NLP and the Tech Industry
Women in Computer Science (WiCS)
Widening NLP (Join via Slack)
Resources that support equity and inclusion across all demographics in linguistics (funded by Linguistic Society of America)
People of Color in Tech (POCIT)
Student Organizations and Cultural Centers Supporting Linguistics and Language Studies
Linguistics Club (a student organization)
Language and Culture Resources Center
Language Conversation Hours at UIC
Getting to know how linguistics plays a role in NLP
Google I/O 2022 keynote live announces new developments - many of which center on machine learning of language for communication and play.
Finding A Voice (Source: The Economist) "Computers have got much better at translation, voice recognition and speech synthesis,...but they still don’t understand the meaning of language...."
Google Research Blog (This link takes you to a specific piece on grammatical error correction)
Google AI Blog (This link takes you to a specific piece on Google Transformer, a neural network architecture for language understanding.)
Bias in NLP: A dangerous but fixable problem.
Language in the Human-Machine Era (an EU-funded network of researchers connecting linguistics with the tech industry)