In May of 2026, the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) was held in Palma, Spain.  Lab member Anna Stacey presented part of her MA thesis work there: Glossed Data in Northern Interior Salish.  Though the conference was broad, there were opportunities to connect with other folks working on language technology for lower-resourced languages worldwide.

You can read the proceedings paper here, or check out the poster here.

Lab member Anna Stacey presents her poster during a session on Less-Resourced/Studied Languages at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Spain.

Several UBC Linguistics folks presented at the conference: (L-R) Chris Hammerly, Anna Stacey, Suyuan Liu, and Matthias Diederichsen.

In May of 2026, the joint conference of SULA (Semantics of Under-represented Languages in the Americas) and TripleA (Semantics of Languages of Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania) was hosted right at UBC.

Lab member Lisa Matthewson helped to organize the conference, while several lab members (Ella Hannon, Sander Nederveen, and Reed Steiner) presented work at the conference.  Though proceedings papers are not yet out, their topics were:

• Ella Hannon: Pastness as a presupposition: the nɬeʔkepmxcín clitic ƛ̓əm̓.  Slides here!
• Sander Nederveen: Gradable change of state and variable culmination in Salish.
• Reed Steiner: Locative demonstratives in nɬeʔkepmxcín: a vector space semantics.

Lab member Bruce Oliver also presented some work on another Northern Interior Salish language, Secwepecmtsín.

You can read abstracts for any of these works here!

Lab member Lisa Matthewson (R) introduces a presentation alongside fellow UBC Linguistics professor Ryan Bochnak (L).

Lab members Lisa Matthewson and Reed Steiner are hidden amongst this gathering of UBC-affiliated attendees.

In November 25, a couple of lab members presented on our nɬeʔkepmxcín stories & conversations work at the UBC Indigenous Strategic Initiatives (ISI) showcase.

The ISI fund has been a significant supporter of our work to record, transcribe, translate, and publish this large body of nɬeʔkepmxcín speech.

We also got to hear about many other neat projects supported by the fund, and got to catch up with our collaborator Mandy Na’zinek Jimmie.

Check out our poster here!

You can also see a video about the event here.

Lab members Anna Stacey (L) and Noah Luntzlara (R) present the lab’s work alongside collaborator Mandy Na’zinek Jimmie (centre).