Miikka Silfverberg, University of British Columbia

Research

Morphology Computational linguistics Indigenous languages Language Learning Resource development Gitksan St'át'imcets Text corpora

Latest funding

Mapping and modelling grammatical person and voice in Ojibwe
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$87,517
Sociopolitical and sociocultural dimensions of learning Chinese as an additional language: Changing global contexts, media discourse, and learners
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$52,469
Inferring Inflectional Paradigms from Glossed Corpora for First Nations Languages
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$64,999

All 5 grants and awards

Mapping and modelling grammatical person and voice in Ojibwe

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Hammerly, Christopher

Keywords: grammatical person; grammatical voice; Algonquian; Ojibwe; language revitalization; language documentation; psycholinguistics; syntax; morphology

$87,517

Sociopolitical and sociocultural dimensions of learning Chinese as an additional language: Changing global contexts, media discourse, and learners

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Duff, Patricia A.

Keywords: Chinese language learning; global Chinese; diversity; identity; ideologies; language socialization; transnationalism; learning trajectories; multilingualism; Mandarin; media; sociopolitical; sociocultural

$52,469

Inferring Inflectional Paradigms from Glossed Corpora for First Nations Languages

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Silfverberg, Miikka

Keywords: Morphology; Computational linguistics; Indigenous languages; Language Learning; Resource development; Gitksan; St'át'imcets; Text corpora; Machine learning

$64,999

21st century tools for Indigenous languages

Co-investigatorSSHRC2019Partnership Grants

Keywords: language revitalization; language technology; on-line dictionaries; on-line collections of speech and text; spell-checkers; computer-aided language learning; Indigenous languages; Algonquian languages; Dene languages; morphology; lexicon

$1,640,767

21st century tools for Indigenous languages

Co-investigatorSSHRC2018Partnership Grants

Keywords: language revitalization; language technology; on-line dictionaries; on-line collections of speech and text; spell-checkers; computer-aided language learning; Indigenous languages; Algonquian languages; Dene languages; morphology; lexicon

$732,638

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Morphology Dear Professor Silfverberg, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on morphology connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Inferring Inflectional Paradigms from Glossed Corpora for First Nations Languages" (2020), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]