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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 · 20/08/2026

I'm recruiting Linguistics PhD students! Come work with me on all things multilingual and low-resource NLP! NLP background welcome, but commitment to scientific study of language is essential. My recent work has included ASR for field linguistics and compact LLMs for heritage languages

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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 · 13/08/2026

Okay. I'm stuck on "No author found with this ORCID in OpenAlex. Your ORCID may not be linked to OpenAlex yet." after signing in via ORCID. [Edit: might be because I haven't actually added works to my ORCID, whoops] (edited)

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C.M. Downey @cmdowney.com · 13/08/2026

Expected to need to claim my ORCID in OpenAlex as part of the process?

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C.M. Downey @cmdowney.com · 13/08/2026

Could I get verified please?

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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I wanted to see which locally-runnable models are most effective for cultural heritage languages, this page has comparisons of 7 languages: mimno.github.io/PhiloBench/ llama3.1 and mistral are both powerful and fast!

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PhiloBench Preview

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C.M. Downey @cmdowney.com · 11/06/2026

Did you do any sort of evaluation (automatic or otherwise) against a rubric to assess quality or is it mostly eyeballing it for now?

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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

After the enthusiasm of the shared task last year, we are running another shared task to create a community-made, culturally relevant multilingual benchmark! The deadline to contribute is August 1 AoE. See more details below.

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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

📢 Call for Papers: 6th Multilingual Representation Learning Workshop at EMNLP in Budapest, Hungary! Join us and submit your works relating to multilingual NLP Speakers to be announced, so stay tuned! 👀 More info in the CFP: 🔗 sigtyp.github.io/ws2026-mrl.html

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C.M. Downey @cmdowney.com · 05/02/2026

The Uneme data was collected and curated as part of Lateef's ongoing fieldwork with the Uneme community in Nigeria. He's working under an ELDP grant and the larger collection is indexed here: www.elararchive.org/uncategorize...

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uneme-adeleke-0831 | Endangered Languages Archive

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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

elararchive.org

uneme-adeleke-0831 | Endangered Languages Archive

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C.M. Downey @cmdowney.com · 12/01/2026

I did weekly pen-and-paper quizzes in my deep learning class to assess comprehension and thought it went reasonably well

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C.M. Downey @cmdowney.com · 06/11/2025

Potential applicants should visit the link here and apply by December 1! If you think this is a good fit for you or someone you know, feel free to reach out by DM or email. www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/graduate...

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C.M. Downey @cmdowney.com · 06/11/2025

- ASR for extremely low-resource langs: making it useful and practical for language documentation - The role of Linguistic relatedness in transfer learning - "Roll-your-own" modeling frameworks (i.e. community-trained and -maintained solutions) - LMs for ancient/archaic language understanding

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C.M. Downey @cmdowney.com · 06/11/2025

I'm recruiting Linguistics PhD students this cycle! You should apply to work with me if you're interested in anything low-resource NLP. Some topics I'm particularly excited about currently:

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C.M. Downey @cmdowney.com · 22/11/2024

- Cornell is just down the road - Department is deeply engaged in fieldwork If this sounds up your alley, feel free to reach out! And if you know someone who would be interested, please have them look me up. The deadline for applications is December 1 www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/graduate...

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How to Apply

The Department of Linguistics accepts fall-entry applications into its PhD and master's programs once per year. There is no spring-entry option.

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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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Isabel Papadimitriou @isabelpapad.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Do you want to understand how language models work, and how they can change language science? I'm recruiting PhD students at UBC Linguistics! The research will be fun, and Vancouver is lovely. So much cool NLP happening at UBC across both Ling and CS! linguistics.ubc.ca/graduate/adm...

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C.M. Downey @cmdowney.com · 19/11/2024

If you still have space I'd appreciate being added 🙂 aclanthology.org/people/c/c-m...

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C. M. Downey - ACL Anthology

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