Scholarship and Biography
I direct the Broadening Linguistic Technologies Lab at Brandeis University, where I am affiliated with the Computer Science Department, Computational Linguistics Program, and Linguistics Program. The overarching goal of my research is to broaden the depth and breadth of human language technology, with a focus on understudied problems in computational linguistics.
The primary thrust of my current work is eliminating the barriers to useful language technology for every living written language, especially lower-resourced and minoritized languages. I have previously worked on human-robot interaction and the representation of language in the mind, including language acquisition, processing, and change.
I did my graduate work in Computer Science at The University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. 2013), advised by Mitch Marcus and Charles Yang. I then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia exploring clinical applications of statistical models of language processing. I was a researcher at BBN Technologies and USC Information Sciences Institute. In summer 2019, I joined the computational linguistics faculty at Brandeis University.
More information is available on my research website.