From campbell-kibler.1 at osu.edu Tue Apr 1 18:05:36 2025 From: campbell-kibler.1 at osu.edu (Campbell-Kibler, Kathryn) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 22:05:36 +0000 Subject: [Somean] Friday: Alyssa Allen In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: As many of you saw, there will be a golden retriever named Mabel in Oxley 100 from 11-11:30 on Friday. We?ll discuss at the beginning of the meeting whether we?ll want to take a brief break so everyone can visit her together or whether we?ll continue as usual and expect individuals to duck out for a few minutes at different times over the course of the half hour. Alyssa will get the largest vote. -K From: Somean on behalf of Campbell-Kibler, Kathryn via Somean Date: Monday, March 31, 2025 at 12:38?PM To: somean at ling.osu.edu Subject: [Somean] Friday: Alyssa Allen This Friday Alyssa will dry run her QP2 presentation ?Phonetic Alignment to Human and Machine Voices?. As usual, we?ll meet 10:30-noon in Oxley 122 and at https://osu.zoom.us/j/99085897638?pwd=LtVxapYaCFXTTeGdJ0oc0aaWyO2zN9.1 -K Kathryn Campbell-Kibler Associate Professor Department of Linguistics Ohio State University campbell-kibler.1 at osu.edu she/her -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From campbell-kibler.1 at osu.edu Thu Apr 3 18:09:28 2025 From: campbell-kibler.1 at osu.edu (Campbell-Kibler, Kathryn) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 22:09:28 +0000 Subject: [Somean] Socio relevant CSE talk In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Most of you will have gotten this, but you might not have scrolled down. Talk is titled ?Title: Dialect as a Site of Bias: Probing Covert Racism in Language Models?. -K From: Lingosu on behalf of Kumar, Sachin via Lingosu Date: Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 3:57?PM To: lingosu at lists.osu.edu Subject: [Lingosu] Fw: Guest Speaker Valentin Hofmann Hi everyone, I am a faculty member of CSE and hosting a speaker, Valentin Hofmann, on April 16. Please see the details below. If you would like to meet the speaker, please sign up using the link below. Thank you, Sachin ________________________________ From: Cse-faculty on behalf of Antoine, Nodie via Cse-faculty Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2025 12:50 PM To: cse-faculty at lists.osu.edu; cse-staff at lists.osu.edu; cse-researchstaff at lists.osu.edu; Cse-grads at lists.osu.edu; cse-ptlecs at lists.osu.edu Subject: [Cse-faculty] Guest Speaker Valentin Hofmann Hi Everyone, We have a guest speaker named Valentin Hofmann, with University of Washington and Ai2 coming on April 16th. Hosted by Sachin Kumar. Please see more information below about date, time and room location. Thanks. Title: Dialect as a Site of Bias: Probing Covert Racism in Language Models Speaker: Valentin Hofmann, University of Washington and Ai2 Date: April 16, 1pm Location: DL 480 Remote Zoom Link: https://go.osu.edu/valentin-hofmann-talk Meeting Sign Up Link: https://go.osu.edu/valentin-hofmann-meet Website: https://valentinhofmann.github.io/ Abstract: Language models are known to perpetuate systematic racial prejudices, making their judgments biased in problematic ways about groups like African Americans. While prior research has focused on overt racism in language models, social scientists have argued that racism with a more subtle character has developed over time. It is unknown whether this covert racism manifests in language models. In this talk, I will present recent research showing that language models embody covert racism in the form of dialect prejudice: they exhibit raciolinguistic stereotypes about speakers of African American English that are more negative than any human stereotypes about African Americans ever experimentally recorded. I will talk about how these covert stereotypes are related to the attitudes that language models overtly display about African Americans, what harmful consequences they can have, and whether they are addressed by existing methods for alleviating racial bias in language models such as human feedback training. Finally, I will discuss how dialect prejudice affects the reasoning capabilities of language models. Bio: Valentin Hofmann is a postdoc at the Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington. 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URL: From campbell-kibler.1 at osu.edu Mon Apr 14 14:23:49 2025 From: campbell-kibler.1 at osu.edu (Campbell-Kibler, Kathryn) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:23:49 +0000 Subject: [Somean] FW: [Ling-Faculty] LING/AFAMAST 5501 An Intro to African American English in AU25 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: From: Ling-Faculty on behalf of Peltier, Joy via Ling-Faculty Date: Monday, April 14, 2025 at 12:45?PM To: lingosu at lists.osu.edu , grads at ling.osu.edu , ling-faculty at lists.osu.edu Subject: [Ling-Faculty] LING/AFAMAST 5501 An Intro to African American English in AU25 Hi all, I?ll be teaching An Introduction to African American English (LING 5501/AFAMAST 5501) in Autumn 2025. The content will be relevant to students interested in African American Language, as well as in language variation and change, language contact and emergence, and the relationship between language use and socio-cultural context. It?s a graduate-level course, but undergraduates are also welcome to enroll, so please share this info with your students! The description (below) and Power Point slide (attached) can be used to advertise the course in your classes. If anyone is interested in taking the course and has questions about the prerequisite, they can email me. I will also be leading the Changelings discussion group (LING 7890.06) next year. As always, students (and others!) who are interested in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, historical linguistics, and/or language contact are welcome to join us for feedback on in-progress work, as well as discussions of recent scholarship and professionalization. An Introduction to African American English LING 5501/AFAMAST 5501 Instructor: Dr. Joy Peltier Day & Time: M/W 12:45-2:05pm Location: Oxley Hall, Room 103 Hours: 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Having taken a linguistics course at the 4000-level or above Course Materials: All materials will be made available on Carmen. Description: This course is an introduction to African American Language (AAL), or the varieties of American English (AE) used predominantly by African Americans. We will explore AAL linguistic features; AAL history and emergence; and how AAL varieties are used, represented, and perceived within their socio-cultural context. We will also examine parallels with other language varieties and communities of the African diaspora (e.g., Caribbean Creoles). 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