The Linguistic Society of America (LSA), founded in 1924, is the leading U.S. professional organization dedicated to advancing the scientific study of language. We are teaching and research professors, data scientists, Natural Language Processing and Understanding experts, K-12 teachers, community language revitalization specialists, language documentarians, UX researchers, non-profit owners, translators, and software engineers.



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Sarah Norton
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My work sits at the intersection of computational and forensic linguistics. Over the past decade, I've built speech and language technologies in industry, with particular interest in fraud detection and threat assessment systems incorporating phonological features. My doctoral research applies linguistic analysis to criminal justice contexts. I value the LSA for bridging the gap for linguists from academia into industry.
 

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The LSA Comment on Proposal to Rescind Regulations on Title VI and Fulbright-Hays 

Reflecting our ongoing work to bring the empirical findings of linguistics to policy makers, the LSA submitted a comment on a Department of Education Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would rescind all regulations governing the Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs. As explained in our comment, the proposed change would reduce the nation's ability to respond to emerging needs, not bolster it. 

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