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Zampieri receives funding for doctoral consortium

2024-05-13
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Marcos Zampieri, Assistant Professor, Information Sciences and Technology, received funding for: “Doctoral Consortium at Student Research Workshop at the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL).” 

Zampieri will use this funding to subsidize travel, conference, and housing expenses of students selected to participate in the NAACL 2024 Student Research Workshop, which will take place during the main NAACL conference on June 16-21, 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico. 

The student research workshop welcomes contributions in two categories: 1) thesis proposals, for advanced students who have decided on a thesis topic and wish to get feedback on their proposal and broader ideas for their continuing work; 2) research papers, which can describe completed work, or work in progress with preliminary results. 

Each accepted paper will be assigned a mentor who will meet with the student during the NAACL conference and provide individual feedback.

Regarding the importance of the project, Zampieri said, “The NAACL SRW contributes to the development of a skilled and diverse computational linguistics and natural language processing workforce.”

Zampieri received $20,000 from the National Science Foundation for this award. Funding began in May 2024 and will end in late April 2025.

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