C.M. Downey @cmdowney.com · 20/08/2026Personal 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 200
C.M. Downey @cmdowney.com · 05/02/2026It 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 100
C.M. Downey @cmdowney.com · 04/02/2026It 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 100
C.M. Downey @cmdowney.com · 22/11/2024One 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 140