French/German alumna with Spanish/Honors minor awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

woman seated in front of bookshelf with books including a German dictionary

The Department of World Languages and Literatures enthusiastically announces that our former student, Gaby O'Connor, dual major French/German, Spanish and Honors minor (class of 2018), now a graduate student in Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Gaby works on the development of human language tools and technologies in multilingual speech. Her project aims to develop a computational model for detecting and processing multi-word expressions in bilingual corpora.

Congratulations, Gaby!!