MASC-SLL 2025: Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning

MASC-SLL 2025, the Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning, is a student-organized and student-centered conference that provides a supportive and rigorous venue for graduate students working across computational linguistics, speech processing, natural language processing, language acquisition, and cognitive science of language. The colloquium spans machine learning for language, NLP system development, speech recognition and synthesis, psycholinguistic experiments, and the computational modeling of language learning and processing.

What distinguishes MASC-SLL from larger professional conferences is its explicit focus on graduate student development: participants receive detailed feedback from peers and invited faculty mentors, learn to present work at an early stage, and build professional networks within the Mid-Atlantic research community. The colloquium is especially valuable for first- and second-year PhD students who want to experience conference participation in a low-stakes environment before submitting to highly competitive tier-one venues.

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