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Rob Voigt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Davis. He specializes in computational sociolinguistics, applying computational methods to understand linguistic mechanisms and their relevance to social issues. Voigt leads the Linguistic Mechanisms Lab, which focuses on how language interacts with social meaning, sociophonetics, and variation. His research interests encompass natural language processing, gesture embodiment, and Chinese and Japanese linguistics. He investigates how these fields can address social good, particularly in area such as policing and immigration. Voigt has contributed to several significant publications, including analyses on the use of body camera footage in policing and mechanisms of language processing related to empathy and social interaction. He has also published work on racial disparities in institutional contexts through linguistic analysis.
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