Federico Ortega Riba Fulbright

Fulbright at CLASIC!

Aug. 12, 2024

CLASIC is pleased to have its first Fulbright student, Federico Ortega Riba , from Spain, joining the Fall 2024 cohort. Welcome Federico and all the incoming students!

Matt Buchholz and Alexis Palmer

Spring '24 CLASIC and CU NLP Open House

Aug. 5, 2024

The CLASIC Spring Open House took place on April 3, 2024, with more than 35 students, faculty, and industry partners in attendance. CLASIC Advisory Board members Salim Roukos (IBM) , Marjorie Freedman (ISI), Sebastian de la Chica (Microsoft), Yunyao Li (Adobe), and Fei Xia (Univ. of Washington) discussed CLASIC graduates'...

Matt Buchholz Paul Gillett Susan Brown and Sijia Ge at the2024  graduation ceremony

CLASIC Fall '23 and Spring '24 Graduates!

Aug. 5, 2024

During the 2023-2024 academic year, CLASIC gained six new alumni! Felix Zheng, Reece Suchocki, Zhiyong Wang , and Sijia Ge graduated in Fall 2023, while Matt Buchholz and Paul Gillett graduated in Spring 2024. They and Sijia Ge participated in the May graduation ceremony and received their diplomas from Dr...

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Fall 2023 Computational Linguistics and NLP Open House

Nov. 16, 2023

Â鶹ÒùÔº from CLASIC and the CLEAR Lab presented their Capstone and research projects at the Fall 2023 Computational Linguistics and NLP Open House on October 12. Industry representatives, faculty, and undergraduate students interested in the Computer Science to CLASIC and Linguistics to CLASIC BAM programs were also present. Dr. Susan...

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CLASIC's Martha Palmer receives 2023 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award

Aug. 10, 2023

CLASIC's founding director, Dr. Martha Palmer , was awarded the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 61st Association of Computational Linguistics meeting in Toronto, Ontario, in July. Read more about the award and Dr. Palmer's outstanding contributions to NLP, Computational Semantics, and the development of both Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR)...

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CLASIC Directors

July 19, 2023

Dr. Susan Brown , primary Academic Advisor for CLASIC and longstanding member of the CLASIC faculty, will take over as acting Director of CLASIC as of the 2023 fall semester. Congratulations, Susan! CLASIC's founding director, Dr. Martha Palmer , remains actively involved in the program as Director Emeritus. The CLASIC...

Group of CLASIC 2023 graduates

CLASIC 2023 Graduation

July 19, 2023

CLASIC’s largest graduating class received their diplomas in Spring 2023. Congratulations to Mitchell Allen, Cutter Dalton, Marie Grace, Wei-tung Liao, Natalia Redwood, Jay Seabrum, Bhargav Shandilya, Sagarika Shreevastava, and Dananjay Srinivas ! Three of these will continue at the University of Colorado to pursue PhD degrees while others have accepted...

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CLASIC Open House 2023

July 19, 2023

The 2023 CLASIC Open House was held on Wednesday March 8, 2023. It was the first in-person Open House since 2019. CLASIC students and several CLEAR PhD students presented posters on their research to faculty, undergraduate and graduate students from Computer Science and Linguistics, Advisory Board members, and other invited...

CLASIC BAM student Reece Suchocki

New paths to CLASIC

July 19, 2023

In Fall 2022, four new paths to CLASIC were created. University of Colorado undergraduate students in Computer Science and Linguistics can now apply to Computational Linguistics Accelerated Master's Programs (BAMs) . Three of the new CLASIC BAM paths are open to undergraduate students in the Computer Science BA, BS, and...