Industry Insights
Industry Insights is an invited guest series dedicated to connecting alumni and industry
professionals with the UNT community. The collaboration between the College of Information,
its three departments (Information Science, Learning Technologies, and Linguistics)
and the UNT Career Center is designed to help students explore professions in their
field of study. Each semester will feature guests who will focus on careers in one
of our seven areas of study.
Discovery Series
The Discovery Series hosts prominent and impactful speakers from industry, academia,
and nonprofits to stimulate the exchange of ideas at the intersection of information
science, linguistics, and learning technologies.
MIRS
The Multi-Disciplinary Information Research Symposium (MIRS) is an annual symposium
that showcases the work of scholars and practitioners researching information and
its impact on people. The research presented is about a range of topics including
information technology, cybersecurity, information organization, archival theory,
library science, computer science, linguistics, data science and more.
CoRSAL
Since 2017, UNT Faculty from Linguistics, Information Science, Computer Science and
Anthropology began partnering with the UNT Digital Library to create a repository
for South Asian languages at UNT. The hosting of this repository known as CoRSAL (Computational
Resource on South Asian Languages) houses data in formats that can be easily accessed
and used by non-linguists and linguists for a range of purposes including language
science, computational linguistics, language reclamation and revitalization, language
teaching and investigations into diverse cultures and histories.