Meet McMaster’s new MacDATA Fellow Bryor Snefjella

Posted on July 25, 2017

Bryor Snefjella was awarded a MacDATA fellowship for his project “Massive Multilingual Semantic Norm Extrapolation.”

“Bryor Snefjella is Ph.D. student at McMaster University, in the Cognitive Science of Language program, with interests in corpus linguistics, quantitative linguistics, psychology, and psycholinguistics. His MacDATA fellowship will be supervised by Drs. Victor Kuperman and Louis Schmidt. He uses corpora (searchable databases of language samples for linguistic research), including representative academic corpora, social media, and other sources, to examine how the sensorimotor and affective connotations of words affect language processing, and reflect how we mentally represent people, events, and places. […]”