Join us on February 9 as we host Joy Maa, Assistant Professor of Japanese in the School of Modern Language at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Maa’s talk will explore how computer-mediated communication (CMC), particularly the messaging app LINE, serves as an important space for learning and using pragmatics during study abroad in Japan. By examining

What if statistics could solve a literary mystery centuries in the making? That’s exactly what Department of Asian Languages and Literature Professor Paul Atkins, along with mathematics Ph.D. students Herman Chau and Michael Zeng, set out to do. Using data analysis and machine learning, the three discussed how they used statistical analysis of hiragana usage