11/20/2018

Welcome to Yu Chen, Anna Konobelkina, and James Whang!

Yu (Tracy) Chen, Anna Konobelkina, and James Whang have joined the LST department and SFB 1102.
Tracy is a PhD student in the SFB Project C4, exploring machine translation based similarity measures to explore the intercomprehension between Slavic languages.
Anna is a PhD student in the SFB Project C1, focusing on the interaction between information density and the prosodic hierarchy.
James is a postdoctoral researcher in project C1, investigating the effects of predictability as defined by Information Theory on phonetic encoding through experiments and computational modeling.