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Laura Collins is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Concordia University, specializing in applied linguistics. Her research focuses on input processing in second language acquisition, pedagogical grammar, and cross-linguistic influence among bilingual speakers. She has extensive international teaching experience across diverse age groups and serves as the 2nd VP of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and Chair of the IRIS digital repository advisory board. PhD in Humanities, Concordia University MEd in Second Language Teaching, University of Ottawa BEd in Second Language Teaching, University of Toronto BA in History, York University Collins' current projects examine the use of speech technologies to extend second language classrooms and document longitudinal grammatical development in school programs. Funded by SSHRC Insight Grants, her work bridges cognitive approaches with practical pedagogical applications. Recent publications highlight trends in classroom input optimization, frequency-based phonological learning, and intensive language program efficacy, with subfields spanning morpheme perception, vocabulary distribution, and task-based interaction dynamics. Her academic leadership includes editorial roles in The Modern Language Journal and contributions to major handbooks. She teaches courses ranging from classroom-based SLA research to pedagogical grammar, emphasizing practical applications of theoretical insights.

• Applied Linguistics
• Bilingualism
• Language Acquisition
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Haiyang Ai is an Associate Professor in the Literacy and Second Language Studies program at the University of Cincinnati's School of Education. His research applies corpus linguistics and natural language processing to investigate second language acquisition, writing complexity, and bilingual language processing. His educational background includes a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from The Pennsylvania State University (2015), an M.A. in Linguistics & Applied Linguistics from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2006), and a B.A. in English from Shaanxi Normal University (2003). Dr. Ai's research spans corpus linguistics, natural language processing, second language acquisition, and computer-assisted language learning. He specializes in compiling and analyzing native and learner corpora to develop intelligent language learning systems and investigate lexical/syntactic complexity in L2 writing. His methodological approach integrates computational tools with theoretical linguistics to address practical language teaching challenges. His recent publications (2019-2023) demonstrate consistent focus on lexical bundles in professional communication, automating complexity measurement in Chinese, speech perception mechanisms in bilinguals, and grammatical puzzles in English learning. These works bridge corpus-based analysis with psycholinguistic experimentation across diverse subfields including morphosyntax, pragmatic competence, and cognitive processing in L2 acquisition. Dr. Ai has secured multiple University of Cincinnati grants including three CECH Faculty Development Grants ($2500 in 2017-2018 for verb-noun collocation research, $2000 in 2016-2017 for corrective feedback tools) and the NCFDD Faculty Success Program ($3250 in 2017), all supporting his development of computational language learning resources.

• Corpus Linguistics
• Natural Language Processing
• Second Language Acquisition
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Shunichi Ishihara is a Professor at the School of Culture, History & Language, The Australian National University, where he leads research in forensic linguistics and computational linguistics. His work focuses on forensic text and voice comparison, authorship attribution, and Japanese linguistic studies. He holds qualifications including a PhD (ANU), MSc (Macquarie), MA (ANU), and BEd (Shizuoka). Research Interests: Forensic Voice/Text Comparison Computational Linguistics Intonational Modelling Japanese Language Processing Stylometric Analysis Research Trends: Recent work emphasizes likelihood ratio-based systems for authorship verification, fusion of acoustic and text features for forensic analysis, and applications of deep learning in text evidence evaluation. His studies often explore cross-lingual comparisons (e.g., Japanese, English, Vietnamese) and system validation methodologies. Grants & Projects: "Likelihood project on author recognition" (2024-2026) "Big Australian Speech Corpus" (2010-2015) Multiple forensic voice/text comparison initiatives Labs & Teams: Director of the Speech and Language Lab, collaborating on speech corpus development and forensic linguistic systems.

• Forensic Voice/Text Comparison
• Computational Linguistics
• Intonational Modelling
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Prof. Dr. Volker Dellwo is an Associate Professor of Phonetics and head of the Department of Computational Linguistics. His research focuses on phonetics, speech recognition, computational linguistics, and dialectology, with applications in forensic analysis, voice biometrics, and multimodal emotion recognition. Academic Rank: Associate Professor Department: Computational Linguistics His work explores phonetic convergence , speaker discrimination, and the role of prosodic features in voice recognition. Recent studies analyze whispered speech processing, cross-dialect accommodation, and neural mechanisms of speaker identity encoding. Key article trends include self-supervised learning for speech recognition , multimodal emotion detection , and forensic voice analysis . Subfields span acoustic variability, temporal envelope dynamics, and voice quality metrics. Publications emphasize computational phonetics , cross-linguistic studies , and neural network applications in speaker identification. Research also addresses challenges in forensic audio analysis and synthetic speech dataset generation.

• Phonetics
• Speech Recognition
• Computational Linguistics
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Li Nguyen is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore . Their work bridges linguistics with computational approaches, focusing on language variation, contact phenomena, and multilingual NLP. Education: PhD in Linguistics (University of Cambridge), Master’s in General and Applied Linguistics (Australian National University) Research interests include: Language variation and change in multilingual/diasporic communities Computational sociolinguistics and NLP for low-resource varieties Syntax-pragmatic interface in bicultural contexts Code-switching and heritage language documentation Recent publications highlight collaborations on Vietnamese-English and other code-switched language pairs, with a focus on NLP applications and corpus-based analysis. Their work has gained recognition through grants like the NTU Start-up Grant and Cambridge Language Sciences funding . Scientific awards: Cambridge International Scholarship, Philological Society Fieldwork Grant Li Nguyen actively collaborates on projects involving sociolinguistically informed NLP and community-driven language documentation. They have contributed to the development of the CanVEC corpus for Vietnamese-English speech research.

• Language variation and change
• Contact linguistics
• Computational sociolinguistics
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Roles: Prof Peter Bell holds a personal chair in speech technology at the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics and is a core member of the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR). His primary research focus is automatic speech recognition (ASR), particularly in cross-domain adaptation, lightly supervised training, and minority language systems. He teaches the Automatic Speech Recognition course and advises multiple PhD students. Research Interests: Prof Bell's work spans ASR system development for diverse domains, audio-visual integration, end-to-end models, and under-resourced languages. His projects include the CoG-MHEAR healthcare initiative and the Unmute project addressing language marginalization. He has pioneered techniques for speaker adaptation, raw-waveform modeling, and multi-task learning. Commercial Activities: He advises industry on speech tech adoption, co-founded Quorate Technology (acquired by LSEG), and provides consultancy to firms developing speech solutions. His work bridges academic research with commercial impact through projects like the BBC's MGB Challenge and EU-funded SUMMA platform. Grants & Projects: Leads EPSRC-funded CoG-MHEAR and Unmute initiatives, collaborates on IARPA MATERIAL for low-resource ASR, and contributed to the SpeechWave waveform-based ASR project. His research has been supported by Bloomberg, Ericsson, Samsung, and Toshiba. Labs & Teams: Active in CSTR, leading teams in speech representation learning, adaptation techniques, and multi-modal ASR. His lab supports interdisciplinary work with NLP, HCI, and biomedical engineering groups. Personal: A passionate hillwalker, he explores Scottish Highlands and Corbetts. Previously active in Edinburgh University Hillwalking Club, his outdoor pursuits reflect his disciplined approach to research exploration.

• Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
• Cross-domain and Cross-lingual Adaptation
• Speech Representation Learning
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Nick Thieberger is an Associate Professor in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He also holds adjunct positions at the University of Sydney, University of Hawai'i, LaTrobe University, Australian National University, and the University of Tasmania. Thieberger serves as Director of PARADISEC (Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures), President of DELAMAN (Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archives Network), and Deputy Director of the Research Unit for Indigenous Language at the University of Melbourne. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and leads multiple major research projects including Nyingarn and Modularised cultural heritage archives. Thieberger's primary research interests focus on language documentation, endangered languages, and digital archiving methodologies. His work bridges linguistics, digital humanities, and Indigenous language preservation, with particular emphasis on Pacific and Australian Indigenous languages. He has developed innovative approaches to linguistic archiving, including the creation of PARADISEC, which has become a model for digital language archives worldwide. His research spans theoretical linguistics, practical archiving solutions, and community-based language work, with significant contributions to Nafsan (South Efate) language documentation and Australian Indigenous language preservation. His recent publications demonstrate a clear trend toward integrating digital humanities with language documentation, particularly focusing on computational approaches to endangered language preservation. Thieberger's work increasingly addresses ethical considerations in linguistic archiving, community-led documentation models, and the development of platforms that give Indigenous communities control over their linguistic heritage. His research shows a progression from descriptive linguistics toward infrastructure development for language preservation, with growing emphasis on access protocols, data sovereignty, and the technical challenges of long-term digital preservation. Open Scholarship Award (2025) for PARADISEC team Digital Repository of Ireland Award for Research and Innovation (2024) DASSH award for Research Partnership and Social Impact (2021) Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2021) Ludwig Leichhardt Jubilee Fellowship by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2013-2015) ARC Australian Postdoctoral award (2004-2007) QEII Fellowship (2009-2014) Future Fellowship (2014-2018) Thieberger has secured substantial grant funding throughout his career, including multiple ARC grants as Chief Investigator. He leads the ARC LIEF grant 'Nyingarn: a platform for primary sources in Australian Indigenous languages' (2021-2025) and another ARC LIEF grant for 'Modularised cultural heritage archives – future-proofing PARADISEC' (2022-2025). He also serves as Chief Investigator in the ARDC-funded 'Online Heritage Resource Manager to Describo Collections' project (2023-2024) and in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (2014-2025). His grant portfolio reflects his dual focus on theoretical linguistic research and practical infrastructure development for language preservation. Thieberger directs PARADISEC, a pioneering digital archive for endangered language materials that has become an international model. He also leads the Nyingarn project team, which is developing a platform specifically for Australian Indigenous language materials. Through DELAMAN, he coordinates with other language archives worldwide to establish best practices for digital language preservation. His work with the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDACA) further demonstrates his commitment to building research infrastructure that serves both academic researchers and Indigenous communities.

• Language Documentation
• Endangered Languages
• Linguistic Archives
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Simon Clematide is an Academic Associate at the Department of Computational Linguistics within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Zurich, where he has been actively engaged in research and teaching since the early 2000s. His work spans computational linguistics, natural language processing, and text mining with a particular focus on historical document processing, multilingual applications, and practical implementations of machine learning techniques. Dr. Clematide's research interests encompass Natural Language Processing , Computational Linguistics , Text Mining , Machine Learning , Sentiment Analysis , Named Entity Recognition , and Historical Document Processing . His interdisciplinary approach bridges computer science with humanities applications, particularly in analyzing historical newspapers and multilingual corpora. His work demonstrates strong expertise in developing practical NLP systems that address real-world challenges in document analysis and language processing. Over the past five years, his publication record reveals a consistent focus on historical text processing, multilingual NLP applications, and shared task competitions. His research shows particular strength in named entity recognition for historical documents (CLEF HIPE shared tasks), grapheme-to-phoneme conversion (SIGMORPHON shared tasks), and OCR post-processing for historical newspapers. The interdisciplinary nature of his work is evident in collaborations spanning computer science, linguistics, history, and geography. Dr. Clematide has been instrumental in organizing and participating in numerous shared tasks including CLEF-HIPE (2020-2022), SIGMORPHON (2017-2021), and CoNLL-SIGMORPHON (2017-2020), where his team achieved multiple first and second places. His teaching portfolio includes courses on Text Mining, Machine Learning for NLP, Deep Learning in Language Technology, and Sentiment Analysis, demonstrating his commitment to educating the next generation of computational linguists. He has led or participated in diverse research projects including NFP 77, impresso, Citizen Linguistics Projects (tonaccent.ch, dindialaekt.ch), SPARCLING, KTI project with Eurospider, and biomedical text mining initiatives (MANTRA, SASEBio). His interdisciplinary work extends to collaborations with material scientists and social scientists on concept extraction and text zoning applications. Dr. Clematide has contributed to the development of several computational tools and resources, including finite-state morphology systems for Rumansh Grishun, Standard German, and Swiss German, as well as the CLab web-based virtual laboratory for computational linguistics. His work on crowdsourcing OCR ground truth for heritage corpora demonstrates practical solutions to real-world digitization challenges.

• Natural Language Processing
• Computational Linguistics
• Text Mining
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Professor Jennifer Hay is a Professor of Linguistics in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, where she has been employed since July 2000. She serves as Director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour and is actively involved in collaborative interdisciplinary research projects within the institute. Professor Hay's primary research interests focus on New Zealand English, sociophonetics, laboratory phonology, and morphology. Her work explores how language varies and changes across speakers and contexts, with particular attention to the relationship between speech production and perception. She investigates how social factors influence linguistic patterns and how listeners adapt to different accents and speech styles. Her research combines laboratory methods with corpus-based analysis to address theoretical questions about language structure and use. Her publication record demonstrates consistent contributions to understanding language variation, especially in New Zealand English. Recent work examines vowel covariation, the influence of music on speech perception, and the implicit knowledge of Māori among non-Māori speakers. She has published over 280 scholarly works, with numerous publications in high-impact journals including Language, Journal of Phonetics, and Laboratory Phonology. Rutherford Discovery Fellowship (2010) - $1,000,000 to fund research on Episodic Word Memory (2011-2016) Founding Member, Association for Laboratory Phonology (2010) Fellow of the Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto Professor Hay actively supervises numerous graduate students, with recent projects focusing on topics such as language variation in Christchurch schools, audience design in police shows, loanword phonology, and the perception of nonbinary speech. She has secured multiple competitive grants from the Royal Society of New Zealand, including current funding for projects on Māori word categories, implicit grammar learning, and vowel sequences in te reo Māori through 2028. As Director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour, Professor Hay leads an interdisciplinary team of researchers investigating language processing, acquisition, and variation. Her collaborative approach has fostered partnerships across linguistics, psychology, and cognitive science to advance understanding of how language works in the human mind and society.

• New Zealand English
• sociophonetics
• laboratory phonology
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Sonia Colina is a Regents Professor and holds a dual affiliation with the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (College of Science) and the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) program at the University of Arizona. She is a leading scholar in Spanish phonology (Optimality Theory, syllable structure) and Translation Studies, particularly focusing on translation pedagogy and healthcare translation. Her research bridges linguistic theory and practical applications, such as improving healthcare access for limited-English-proficient populations through translation mediation and community health initiatives. Dr. Colina has authored influential works like *Fundamentals of Translation* (2015) and *Syllable Structure in Spanish* (2009), and co-edited volumes such as *The Handbook of Spanish Phonology*. She has directed NIH-funded projects, including the Oyendo Bien initiative using community health workers to address hearing loss among border populations and a collaboration on Spanish/English text simplification with the Department of Management Information Systems. Her research interests span translation quality assessment, bilingual phonological acquisition, and the role of surface/semantic features in medical text simplification. As Director of the National Center for Interpretation, she advances interpreter training and standards in healthcare and legal settings. She is a past president of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association (ATISA), contributing to the professionalization of translation studies. In grants and collaborations, Colina emphasizes interdisciplinary partnerships, such as integrating linguistics with audiology and public health. Her work highlights translational research that enhances language accessibility and equity in healthcare systems.

• Spanish Phonology
• Optimality Theory
• Syllable Structure
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Colin Wilson is a Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University . He is on leave during Fall 2025. His research spans theoretical and experimental phonology, phonetics, cross-language perception/production, and computational modeling. Specialties : Theoretical phonology, phonotactics, constraint learning Techniques : Artificial grammar, probabilistic models, acoustic analysis Research Trends Recent publications focus on interpretable neural networks for morphological learning, phonetic covariation in American English stops, and cross-language speech processing. Key areas include constraint-based grammar, Bayesian inference, and phonotactic probability. Teaching History Colin has taught courses at JHU (2008-2017) and UCLA (2001-2007) including Phonology I/II, Bayesian Inference, and language processing seminars. He co-taught with Donca Steriade, Bruce Hayes, and others.

• Theoretical Phonology
• Experimental Phonology
• Phonetics
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Kazumi Matsumoto serves as Associate Professor of Japanese within the Department of Modern Languages and Classics at Ball State University's College of Sciences and Humanities. Her academic profile centers on empirical research in second language acquisition with specialized focus on Japanese language pedagogy and learner performance metrics. Her educational credentials include: Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics (Japanese), Purdue University (2010) Dr. Matsumoto's research program investigates fluency development , second language writing , and intercultural competence through rigorous quantitative methodologies. She pioneered the application of computational tools like the Fluency Calculator to objectively measure oral production characteristics, challenging traditional subjective fluency assessments. Her scholarly trajectory reveals evolving methodological sophistication—from early kanji recognition studies examining L1 transfer effects to current corpus-based analyses of oral dysfluency patterns across proficiency levels. This progression demonstrates consistent commitment to objective measurement in second language performance, particularly through computational analysis of learner corpora and tool development for fluency assessment. Dr. Matsumoto's advising activities and grant funding details are not specified in available institutional materials.

• Fluency in Second Language Learners
• Second Language Writing
• Intercultural Competence of Second Language Learners

James Wilson is an Associate Professor in Russian and Language Studies at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies , University of Leeds . He holds a BA, MA, and PhD in Russian with Czech from the University of Sheffield and a CELTA from International House, Prague . His career spans teaching and research in Czech and Russian languages, with a focus on variationist sociolinguistics , dialectology , and corpus-based pedagogy . 2010–2011: Research Fellow on AHRC-funded IntelliText project at Centre for Translation Studies , University of Leeds 2009–present: Teaching at University of Leeds Wilson’s research examines language variation in Czech , particularly Standard vs. Common Czech in Bohemia and Moravia, dialect contact , and second dialect acquisition . He has developed corpus-based methodologies for Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) and ESP teaching. His recent publications analyze sociolinguistic variation in Czech loanwords , salience in dialect acquisition , and collaborative vocabulary learning using corpora. He has supervised PhD researcher Amani Alonayzan and organized HEA-funded workshops on bespoke language training and corpus applications . Wilson has also contributed to medical translation and dictionary entries on accommodation theory and quantitative sociolinguistics .

• Variationist Sociolinguistics
• Dialectology
• Language Pedagogy
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Tanja Ackermann is a Professor of German Linguistics with a focus on Variation and Change at Bielefeld University , holding the position since 2023. She serves as project leader in two subprojects of the Collaborative Research Center 1646: Linguistic Creativity in Communication (projects A06 and B03), and as a member of BiSEd (Bielefeld School of Education). Her academic affiliations include the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies and its Habilitation Committee . Doctorate in Linguistics (2017) Habilitation, Venia legendi in German Linguistics (2023) Prior academic roles: Acting Professor at University of Mainz (2020–2022), Research Associate at Freie Universität Berlin (2011–2023), and short-term lectureship at Peking University (2017). Research interests span diachronic and synchronic analysis of language variation (areal/sociolinguistic), language change (functional/contrastive), historical grammar (morphology/morphosyntax), and pragmatics (speech acts, address forms, (im)politeness, expressivity). She specializes in onomastics (name grammar, sociopragmatic aspects, phonology) and interactive linguistic creativity (interrogative forms, indirect meaning). Publications reflect trends in Germanic morphosyntax, historical pragmatics, and onomastic variation. Key themes include inflectional erosion , possessive markers , and gendered phonological patterns in proper names. Scientific Recognition Awarded Wilhelm von Humboldt Prize by the DGfS in 2019 Affiliation Highlights Project leader for SFB 1646 (linguistic creativity in communication) Previous involvement in SRC 980 'Episteme in Motion' (subproject C08, 2016–2020)

• Language Change
• Historical Linguistics
• Germanic Linguistics
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Mimi Huang is a Senior Lecturer in the Humanities Department at Northumbria University, serving as PGR Lead and Research Group Lead for English Language and Linguistics. Her work bridges cognitive linguistics, narrative studies, and discourse analysis to explore communication in health, identity, and community contexts. She collaborates with public services and charities to enhance communication in public health and safety initiatives, including projects like the 2024 Banner Project on emergency responders' mental wellness and evaluations of the SafetyWorks! Centre's educational programs. Qualifications include a PhD in Linguistics (2008) and Fellow status with the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). She supervises PhD students focusing on interdisciplinary topics such as narrative modulation, health communication, and linguistic dimensions of trauma in public service roles. Research interests span language and health, wellbeing and identity narratives, and the sociocultural functions of storytelling. Recent projects highlight her focus on community engagement and applied linguistics in healthcare and safety contexts.

• Cognitive Linguistics
• Health Communication
• Narrative Studies
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