Lab News & Updates

Stay up to date with the latest developments from COALAB, including new publications, awards, events, and lab activities.

2025

January 2025

New NSF Grant Awarded
January 15, 2025
COALAB has been awarded a $1.2M NSF grant to study bilingual language processing in children with developmental language disorders. The three-year project will develop computational assessment tools and intervention strategies.

Paper Accepted at ACL 2025
January 10, 2025
Our paper “Cross-Linguistic Transfer in Multilingual Language Models” has been accepted for publication at ACL 2025. The paper presents a large-scale evaluation of transfer learning across 50+ languages.

2024

December 2024

Lab Holiday Party
December 20, 2024
The lab celebrated the end of a productive year with our annual holiday party. Congratulations to all students who completed their degrees this semester!

New Publication in Journal of Memory and Language
December 5, 2024
Our paper “Eye-Tracking Evidence for Predictive Processing in Bilingual Reading” has been published in the Journal of Memory and Language.

November 2024

New Lab Members Join
November 5, 2024
Welcome to our new postdoctoral researcher Dr. Maria Chen and two new PhD students (David Patel and Lisa Zhang) joining the COALAB team this fall.

Conference Presentations at CogSci 2024
November 1, 2024
Lab members presented three papers at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in Toronto.

October 2024

Industry Collaboration Announcement
October 15, 2024
COALAB has entered into a research collaboration with TechNLP Inc. to evaluate multilingual language models for commercial applications.

Guest Speaker Series
October 10, 2024
Dr. Elena Rodriguez from University of Barcelona gave a talk on “Neurocognitive Approaches to Bilingualism” as part of our guest speaker series.

September 2024

Fall Semester Begins
September 3, 2024
Welcome back to all lab members for the fall semester! Several new research projects are starting this term.

New Lab Space
September 1, 2024
The lab has moved to expanded facilities in the new Science Building, featuring additional testing rooms and computational resources.

2023

August 2023

Summer Internship Program
August 25, 2023
Three undergraduate students completed summer research internships in the lab, working on projects related to NLP and psycholinguistics.

July 2023

International Conference Participation
July 20, 2023
Lab members attended and presented at ACL 2023 in Toronto and CogSci 2023 in Sydney.

June 2023

Data Release: Bilingual Code-Switching Corpus
June 15, 2023
We have publicly released our Bilingual Code-Switching Corpus, containing 500+ hours of annotated bilingual conversation across multiple language pairs.

May 2023

Best Paper Award
May 10, 2023
Our paper “Computational Assessment of Reading Fluency in Bilingual Children” received the Best Paper Award at the Conference on Human Language Technology.

April 2023

Community Outreach Event
April 22, 2023
Lab members participated in a community science fair, demonstrating language research to local high school students.

March 2023

New Equipment Acquisition
March 15, 2023
The lab has acquired new eye-tracking equipment (Tobii Pro Fusion) to support our reading and visual world paradigm studies.

February 2023

Grant Success
February 1, 2023
Our NIH grant application on “Semantic Representations Across Languages” has been funded for three years.

2022

December 2022

Year-End Review
December 20, 2022
2022 was a productive year for COALAB with 12 publications, 3 new grants, and 5 completed theses. Congratulations to all lab members!

November 2022

Alumni Success
November 10, 2022
Former PhD student Dr. Amanda White has accepted a position as Data Scientist at Microsoft Research.

October 2022

Lab Founded
October 1, 2022
COALAB officially began operations with the hiring of our first postdoctoral researchers and graduate students.

Events & Announcements

Upcoming Events

COALAB Seminar Series
Every other Thursday, 3:00 PM
Lab meeting room or Zoom
Open to all interested researchers

Guest Speaker: Dr. Thomas Müller
February 15, 2025, 2:00 PM
“Advances in Multilingual NLP”
Science Building, Room 301

Annual Lab Retreat
May 2025
Location TBD
Planning for research directions and team building

Regular Activities

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Last updated: January 15, 2025