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C.M. Downey

@cmdowney.com
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Assistant Prof. in Ling & DataSci/AI, University of Rochester Director: ur2nlp lab (ur2nlp.io) NLP for low-resource and endangered languages cmdowney.io

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C.M. Downey @cmdowney.com · 20/08/2026
Personal and lab website in bio. You can email me, but my responses are aggressively filtered for quality-at-a-glance, since faculty get many AI-generated inquiries. Lack of response *does not* imply you shouldn't apply. Be aware that the university is not currently supporting remote study
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C.M. Downey @cmdowney.com · 13/08/2026
correct, I don't seem to have an option to continue
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C.M. Downey @cmdowney.com · 05/02/2026
It features 1) The first ASR baseline for Uneme (endangered Edoid lg) 2) A Tone Error Rate (TER) extension to Feature Error Rate (FER), calculated by carefully scoring phonetic feature vectors 3) Evidence that WER misrepresents ASR performance by collapsing feature-level errors into lexical failure
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C.M. Downey @cmdowney.com · 04/02/2026
It features 1) The first ASR baseline for Uneme (endangered Edoid lg) 2) A Tone Error Rate (TER) extension to Feature Error Rate (FER), calculated by carefully scoring phonetic feature vectors 3) Evidence that WER misrepresents ASR performance by collapsing feature-level errors into lexical failure
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C.M. Downey @cmdowney.com · 22/11/2024
One week left to apply: I'm recruiting (Ling) PhD students! Come work with me on getting NLP to work for as wide a range of languages as possible! Some perks of UR: - Only have to TA 2 semesters total - At least $3k discretionary funds for e.g. conferences - Easy access to upstate NY nature
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