Utah linguistics well represented at SCiL 2026
Members of the University of Utah computational linguistics group presented their
research at this year’s meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL),
held July 3rd and July 4th at San Diego, California. Presentations spanned computational approaches to syntax,
semantics, phonology and psycholinguistics, and included work by both students and
faculty.
Michael Kamerath, MA student, gave an oral talk titled "Investigating Syntactic Biases in Multilingual Transformers with RC Attachment Ambiguities
in Italian and English”, joint work with Aniello De Santo. Check out the proceeding paper here: https://aclanthology.org/2026.scil-main.19/
John Paulson, PhD student, gave an oral talk titled "A Feature-Driven Tensor Semantics for Minimalist Grammars”, work in collaboration with Aniello De Santo and Jon Rawski (San Jose State University).
Check out the proceeding paper here: https://aclanthology.org/2026.scil-main.20/
Stella Hong, PhD student, presented a poster titled “Lexical exceptionality in paradigm-specific learning: modeling stem-final obstruent
alternations in Korean verbs and adjectives”. Check out the proceeding paper here: https://aclanthology.org/2026.scil-main.47/
Our faculty member Yang Wang presented a poster titled “Learning reduplicative templates as hidden structures: the case of reduplication-phonology
interactions”. Check out the proceeding paper here: https://aclanthology.org/2026.scil-main.43/
Congratulations to all on this achievement!