We are a group of Georgetown University faculty, student, and staff researchers at the intersection of language and computation. Our areas of expertise include natural language processing, corpus linguistics, information retrieval, text mining, and more. Members belong to the Linguistics and/or Computer Science departments.

GU research groups: Corpling, NERT, IRLab, InfoSense, Singh lab

Other GU groups: GU-HLT Group, GU Women Coders, Massive Data Institute, Tech & Society Initiative

Related academic groups in the DC/Baltimore region: JHU CLSP, UMD CLIP, George Mason NLP

News & Media

9/8/21: Congratulations to the Corpling lab on winning the DISRPT 2021 shared task on discourse processing!
8/27/20: First-Year Student Presented Paper at Prestigious Computational Linguistics Conference (Aryaman Arora)
9/10/18: #MeToo Movement on Twitter (Lisa Singh)
8/29/18: Cliches in baseball (Nathan Schneider)
1/20/18: The Coptic Scriptorium project (Amir Zeldes)
Congratulations to Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian, and Georgetown alum Andrew Yates for winning a Best Long Paper award at EMNLP 2017! The paper is entitled "Depression and Self-Harm Risk Assessment in Online Forums."
Congratulations to Ophir Frieder, who has been named to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA)!
9/19/16: "Email" Dominates What Americans Have Heard About Clinton (Lisa Singh)
7/12/16: Searching Harsh Environments (Ophir Frieder)

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upcoming talks/events

Nianwen Xue (Brandeis): Linguistics, Thurs. 12/1/22, 3:30 in Poulton 230
James Mayfield (JHU): CS, 2/10/23, 11:15 in STM 326/hybrid
GURT 2023: Computational and Corpus Linguistics (conference on campus), 3/9-12/23
Gabriella Pasi (University of Milano-Bicocca): CS, 3/24/23, 11:00 via Zoom
Luca Soldaini (AI2): CS, 4/14/23, ~~11:00~~ 2:00 in STM 414/hybrid
Carolyn Penstein Rosé (CMU): Linguistics, 4/14/23, 3:30 in Poulton 230
Aixin Sun (NTU Singapore): InfoSense, 4/27/23, 9:00pm via Zoom
Rada Mihalcea (UMich): CS, 5/4/23, 11:00 in room TBA
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	Trevor Adriaanse Adjunct Lecturer / Department of Defense (and MS alum) CL & NLP
	Chloe Anderson Undergraduate, CS & Linguistics major machine learning, AI research, AI safety
	Tatsuya Aoyama Ph.D. student, Linguistics NLP, corpus linguistics, SLA, interlanguage
	Aryaman Arora Undergraduate, CS & Linguistics major CL & NLP, South Asian linguistics, meaning representation, phonology
	Shabnam Behzad Ph.D. student, CS NLP, grammatical error correction, data augmentation
	Austin Blodgett Adjunct Lecturer / Researcher at U.S. Army Research Laboratory (and Ph.D. alum) CL & NLP, computational semantics, mathematical approaches to linguistics
	Claire Bonial Adjunct Lecturer / Researcher at U.S. Army Research Laboratory computational semantics, human-robot dialogue, construction grammar, semantic world modeling and reasoning
	Rui Chen MS student, CS NLP, deep learning, data analytics
	Jessica Cusi MS student, Linguistics NLP, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics
	Sibo Dong Ph.D. student, CS deep learning, information retrieval, NLP, deep reinforcement learning
	Ophir Frieder Professor, CS & Georgetown Medical Center information retrieval, text mining, bioinformatics, wireless networks
	Joe Garman Assistant Professor, Nursing & Human Science CL & NLP, speech recognition & signal processing
	Luke Gessler Ph.D. student, Linguistics CL & NLP, computational methods in language documentation
	Caroline Gish MS student, Linguistics CL & NLP, computational semantics
	Nazli Goharian Clinical Professor, CS information retrieval, text mining, biomedical/health informatics
	Triveni Guharoy MA in Language and Communication student, Linguistics speech recognition, phonology and phonotactics, sociolinguistics
	Pamela Katali MS student, CS NLP, machine learning, syntax
	Michael Kranzlein Ph.D. student, CS CL & NLP, machine learning, data science
	Hrishikesh Kulkarni Ph.D. student, CS information retrieval, deep reinforcement learning
	Wai Ching Leung MS student, Linguistics CL & NLP
	Lauren Levine Ph.D. student, Linguistics CL & NLP, corpus linguistics, multilingual HLT
	Cindy Li MS student, Linguistics CL, low-resource languages, language documentation
	Yi-Ju Lin Ph.D. student, Linguistics CL & NLP, corpus linguistics
	Yaguang Liu Ph.D. student, CS deep learning, NLP, text mining
	Yang Janet Liu Ph.D. student, Linguistics CL & NLP, discourse structure
	Matthew Marge Adjunct Lecturer / Program Manager at DARPA dialogue, situated interaction, natural language generation, machine learning
	Karen McNeil Ph.D. student, Arabic Linguistics NLP, sociolinguistics
	Corey Miller Adjunct Lecturer / Researcher at Rev.com speech recognition, speech synthesis, speaker verification, sociolinguistics, dialectology, Persian
	Yifu Mu BA student, CS & BA+MS student, Linguistics NLP, language generation, MT
	Masato Nakano MS student, Linguistics LFG, low-resource languages, corpus linguistics
	Paul Portner Professor, Linguistics formal semantics, syntax/semantics interface, grammar formalisms, semantic representation, cognitive science
	Achim Ruopp Adjunct Lecturer / Owner at Polyglot Technology machine translation, multilingual NLP, evaluation
	Bradford Salen Ph.D. student, Linguistics computational approaches to second language processing, L1 acquisition, and psycholinguistics
	Wesley Scivetti Ph.D. student, Linguistics CL & NLP, computational semantics, low-resource NLP
	Nathan Schneider Associate Professor, Linguistics & CS CL & NLP, especially semantic representation, annotation, & analysis
	Lisa Singh Professor, CS social graph mining, text mining, data science, visual analytics
	Sajad Sotudeh Ph.D. student, CS NLP, information retrieval, medical and scientific text processing
	Shabnam Tafreshi Adjunct Lecturer / Researcher at UMD Applied Research Lab for Intelligence and Security multilingual computational semantics, information extraction, annotation
	Autumn Toney Ph.D. student, CS NLP, data mining, information retrieval
	Nitin Venkateswaran MS student, Linguistics syntax-semantics, corpus linguistics, MT
	Shira Wein Ph.D. student, CS CL & NLP
	Ulie Xu BA+MS student, Linguistics CL & NLP, syntax, conversational AI chatbots
	Grace Hui Yang Associate Professor, CS information retrieval, text mining, NLP, machine learning, privacy
	Amir Zeldes Associate Professor, Linguistics corpus building, search and visualization; coreference resolution; digital humanities
	Luopeng Zheng Ph.D. student, Linguistics machine learning, data science, NLP
	Yilun Zhu Ph.D. student, Linguistics CL & NLP, coreference resolution, corpus linguistics

	Julie Hockett Undergraduate, CS major/Linguistics minor →²⁰¹⁷ Google text mining, data science, NLP
	Angela Yang Undergraduate, CS major/Linguistics minor →²⁰¹⁷ Amazon information retrieval, dynamic search, signal processing
	Shuo Zhang Ph.D. Linguistics →²⁰¹⁷ Bose CL & NLP, coreference resolution, speech prosody, time-series data mining, music information retrieval
	Arman Cohan Ph.D. CS →²⁰¹⁸ Allen Institute for AI NLP, information retrieval, medical text processing
	Jiyun Luo Ph.D. CS →²⁰¹⁸ Pinterest information retrieval, session search, dynamic search
	Dan Simonson Ph.D. Linguistics →²⁰¹⁸ BlackBoiler CL & NLP, narrative, coreference, critical discourse analysis, modality, using NLP for real-world problems
	Luca Soldaini Ph.D. CS →²⁰¹⁸ Amazon →²⁰²² Allen Institute for AI medical information retrieval
	Clarissa Somers *Undergraduate, Linguistics & CS →²⁰¹⁸ CiBO →²⁰¹⁹ MModal** CL & NLP
	Stacy Petersen Ph.D. Linguistics →²⁰¹⁸ MITRE NLP, big data extraction, phonetics/phonology, speech recognition & signal processing
	James Maguire MS Linguistics →²⁰¹⁹ ABAKA →²⁰²⁰ Adecco →²⁰²¹ Referment neural networks, computational & formal semantics, theory of computation
	Lucia Donatelli Ph.D. student, Spanish Linguistics →²⁰¹⁹ Saarland University →²⁰²³ Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam formal semantics, syntax/semantics interface, NLP
	Akitaka Yamada Ph.D. Linguistics →²⁰¹⁹ Surugadai University →²⁰²⁰ Osaka University corpus lingusitics, Bayesian stats, NLP, formal semantics
	Mitchell Abrams MS Linguistics →²⁰¹⁹ Army Research Lab →²⁰²¹ Tufts (Ph.D. CS) computational forensic linguistics, corpus linguistics, authorship attribution
	Sean Simpson Ph.D. Linguistics →²⁰¹⁹ Google CL & NLP, computational sociolinguistics
	Yue Yu MS CS →²⁰²⁰ Amazon NLP, reinforcement learning
	Trevor Adriaanse MS Linguistics →²⁰²¹ Department of Defense CL & NLP
	Sean MacAvaney Ph.D. CS →²⁰²¹ University of Glasgow information retrieval, NLP
	Sichang Tu MS Linguistics →²⁰²¹ Emory (Ph.D. CS) CL & NLP
	Eugene Yang Ph.D. CS →²⁰²¹ JHU unsupervised learning, NLP
	Tianjiao (Joey) Yu MS CS →²⁰²¹ Virginia Tech (Ph.D. CS) CL & NLP, syntax, semantics
	Austin Blodgett Ph.D. Linguistics →²⁰²¹ US Army Research Lab CL & NLP, computational semantics, mathematical approaches to linguistics
	Emma Manning Ph.D. Linguistics →²⁰²¹ Google CL & NLP
	Yifan Zhu MS Linguistics CL & NLP, syntax
	Ivy Wang BA CS & Linguistics →²⁰²¹ Amazon syntax-semantics, corpus linguistics, NLP
	Rob Churchill Ph.D. student, CS →²⁰²² 5-Out data mining, machine learning, text mining
	Ryan A. Mannion BA+MS student, Linguistics →²⁰²¹ BlackBoiler CL & NLP, syntax, morphology
	Jakob Prange Ph.D. student, CS →²⁰²² Hong Kong Polytechnic University CL & NLP, semantics, syntax, representation design, parsing/structured prediction
	Jaren Haber Postdoctoral Fellow, MDI →²⁰²² Dartmouth NLP, word embeddings, topic models, sociology
	Kornraphop Kawintiranon Ph.D. student, CS →²⁰²² Google data mining, machine learning, NLP
	Siyao (Logan) Peng Ph.D. student, Linguistics →²⁰²³ LMU Munich CL & NLP, syntax, language diversity

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