The BC Data Catalogue contains over 3,000 government datasets with lots of useful information, available for anyone to use. Despite its wealth of information, users often faced difficulties in locating the datasets they needed, resulting in lower engagement with the platform. Recognizing this challenge, BC Data Service identified two key... [Read More]

The University of Toronto’s Future of Law Lab worked with two groups of Master of Data Science Computational Linguistics students to help answer the following question: Why do judges allow or deny eviction orders in Ontario’s Residential Tenancy Board? [Read More]

Language is not only an important form of communication, but also important for the preservation of cultural heritage. This is particularly true of Indigenous languages. [Read More]

For their capstone project, a group of UBC MDS Computational Linguistics students were tasked by Seasalt.ai, a conversational AI start-up, to create a universal NER (Named Entity Recognition) system with fine-grained labels for multiple low-resource languages. [Read More]

Graded readers are levelled reading materials that help language learners improve, by detecting stories and other media that are just slightly above the learner’s current level in the language. [Read More]