A Roundtable for PhD Students and Young Scholars in Linguistics and Language Sciences

A Roundtable for PhD Students and Young Scholars in Linguistics and Language Sciences

Time: 11:00-12:30 am, 2 September 2023

Venue: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Event Sponsored by: the RGC

Collocated with: PACLIC 2023 (link)

Panelists:

• Mary Dalrymple (Oxford University)
• Lori Levin (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania)

Moderator: Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Organizing Committee Chairs

• Junlin Li (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
• Yu-xi Li (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University/Xi’an Jiaotung University)

Location:

Registration:

Zoom Link for Online Participation:

Roundtable Rundown:

• 10:45-11:00 registration
• 11:00-11:15 Opening (Huang, 5 minutes, allowing possible delay)

Panelists

Note: This is expected to be an informal exchange with young scholars. Panelists are welcomed to use either or both of the suggested topics or propose a different theme.

11:15-11:25: Mary Darymple

• What can theoretical linguists do in the time of GenAI & Deep Learning?
• How Oxford mentors and nurtures young scholars.

11:25-11:35: Lori Levin

• How to prepare a career in computational linguistics and NLP based on traditional linguistic training?
• How CMU mentors and nurtures young scholars.

11:35-11:45: Charles Yang

• How to find a niche combining linguistic theory and NLP/AI?

• How UPenn mentors and nurtures young scholars.

• 11:45-12:00: Short summary from moderator and short discussion among panelists
• 12:00-12:30: QA and Open Forum

Note: Participants are asked to send in some questions beforehand. The first two questions will be chosen and posed by our student members (Junlin and Yu-xi) before taking questions from the audience.