Ph.D. student in computational linguistics/natural language processing
Ph.D. work in statistical natural language processing, advised by Noah Smith.
Research topics: machine learning for NLP, semantics, named entity recognition, social media text, nonnative writing, Arabic NLP, text visualization
B.A. with High Honors; Double Major in Computer Science (with Honors), Linguistics
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa; Computer Science Faculty Commendation
Research topics: construction grammar formalisms, Hebrew morphology, semantics, metonymy recognition, statistical news analysis
Thesis: “Hebrew Verb Morphology and Embodied Construction Grammar”
Role: Software Development Intern
In the Office Sharepoint Search group, worked on designing and implementing a new feature for the next version of Office
Role: Software Intern
Involved in various aspects of the planning, development, and testing phases of customizations of a Java web
application
Role: Software Intern
Web design work, including use of Macromedia Flash
Role: Teaching assistant
Lectures: Lexical Semantics; Semantic Role Labeling and Relational Semantics
Role: Teaching assistant
Role: Course reader
Lecture: A Symbolic Formalism for Embodied Grammar
Role: Lab assistant
Reviewer for the journal Computational Linguistics and conferences/workshops including ACL, EMNLP, and AAAI.
Volunteer for the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad and International Linguistics Olympiad.
Within LTI: organizer of Linguistics Reading Group; co-organizer of CL+NLP Lunch Seminar.