My Journey into Natural-Language Processing

My Start

I completed Introduction to Computational Linguistics taught by Dr. Na-Rae Han in the Fall 2021 Semester. All code has been published to a private repository. Any and all access to said repository must be asked for explicitly and is strictly confidential. However, the second course in the series, Data Science for Linguists has a public organization. There, you can see my term project Pragmatics in Video Games. Additionally, I have done research with Dr. Alan Juffs and Dr. Na-Rae Han, helping to organize their speech data for the PELIC Corpus.I worked with a team of researchers during my time at the 8th annual Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop at Johns Hopkins University developing a translation model for the under-resourced langauges, Tamasheq.

Where I am now

I am currently serving as an graduate research assistant to Dr. Dan Villarreal, helping improve his current ASR pipeline for their APLS LaBB-CAT project. My current interests are: improving/creating systems for under-resourced languages , working with code-switched speech, and potentially exploring multi-modal models such as speech+text or text+image. I am about to start research with Dr. Aakash Gautam who specializes in community-based technology development.

My (Hopeful) Future

I would like to focus on the intersection between NLP and HCI, diversifying the work I can accomplish.