Undergraduate Research: Cross-Lingual Approaches to Morphosyntactic Tagging

这个项目的主要目标是建立一支语言学和计算机科学的本科生团队，共同参与研究项目。通过这项研究，学生们将能够了解彼此的学科，许多感兴趣的语言的语言属性，标签集设计，各种有监督/无监督的词法合成标注方法，以及获得数学建模和算法技能--所有这些都是作为研究团队的一部分。在这项研究中，PI将与她的学生一起探索如何将跨语言对应关系用于科学和技术利益，并更好地理解语言属性对句法迁移的关键作用。该奖项将在扩大基于探究的学习，促进学生合作，并提供宝贵的实践经验，在困难的，高度实际的工作形态丰富、代表性不足的语言。该项目的影响预计将转化为通过计算机科学和语言学的研究培训在招收少数民族学生方面取得显著进展。参与这个项目的本科生将合作撰写研究出版物，并在全国会议上发言，这样他们就可以在提高研究意识的同时为研究文化做出贡献。

The main goal of this project is to build a team ofundergraduate students in Linguistics and Computer Science towork on the research project collaboratively. Through thisexperience, the students will be able to learn about eachother's disciplines, linguistic properties of many interestinglanguages, tagset design, various supervised/unsupervisedapproaches to morphosyntactic tagging as well as acquiremathematical modeling and algorithmic skills -- all whileworking as part of the research team.In this research, the PI together with her students willexplore how cross-lingual correspondences can be used forscientific and technological benefit, and provide a betterunderstanding of what linguistic properties are crucial formorphosyntactic transfer.This award will play a central role in expanding inquiry-basedlearning, fostering student collaborations, and providingvaluable hands-on experience of highly practical work ondifficult, morphologically rich under-represented languages.The impact of this project is expected to translate intosignificant gains in recruitment of minority students throughresearch training in Computer Science and Linguistics. Theundergraduates who work on this project will collaborate on thewriting of research publications and present at nationalmeetings so that they can contribute to the research culturewhile enhancing their research awareness.