GUCL: Computational Linguistics @ Georgetown
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
- 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)
Mailing list: Contact Nathan Schneider to subscribe!
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,
11:002:00 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
- Previous talks
People
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Trevor Adriaanse Adjunct Lecturer / Department of Defense (and MS alum) CL & NLP |
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Chloe Anderson Undergraduate, CS & Linguistics major machine learning, AI research, AI safety |
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Tatsuya Aoyama Ph.D. student, Linguistics NLP, corpus linguistics, SLA, interlanguage |
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Aryaman Arora Undergraduate, CS & Linguistics major CL & NLP, South Asian linguistics, meaning representation, phonology |
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Shabnam Behzad Ph.D. student, CS NLP, grammatical error correction, data augmentation |
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Austin Blodgett Adjunct Lecturer / Researcher at U.S. Army Research Laboratory (and Ph.D. alum) CL & NLP, computational semantics, mathematical approaches to linguistics |
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Claire Bonial Adjunct Lecturer / Researcher at U.S. Army Research Laboratory computational semantics, human-robot dialogue, construction grammar, semantic world modeling and reasoning |
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Rui Chen MS student, CS NLP, deep learning, data analytics |
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Jessica Cusi MS student, Linguistics NLP, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics |
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Sibo Dong Ph.D. student, CS deep learning, information retrieval, NLP, deep reinforcement learning |
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Ophir Frieder Professor, CS & Georgetown Medical Center information retrieval, text mining, bioinformatics, wireless networks |
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Joe Garman Assistant Professor, Nursing & Human Science CL & NLP, speech recognition & signal processing |
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Luke Gessler Ph.D. student, Linguistics CL & NLP, computational methods in language documentation |
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Caroline Gish MS student, Linguistics CL & NLP, computational semantics |
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Nazli Goharian Clinical Professor, CS information retrieval, text mining, biomedical/health informatics |
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Triveni Guharoy MA in Language and Communication student, Linguistics speech recognition, phonology and phonotactics, sociolinguistics |
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Pamela Katali MS student, CS NLP, machine learning, syntax |
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Michael Kranzlein Ph.D. student, CS CL & NLP, machine learning, data science |
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Hrishikesh Kulkarni Ph.D. student, CS information retrieval, deep reinforcement learning |
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Wai Ching Leung MS student, Linguistics CL & NLP |
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Lauren Levine Ph.D. student, Linguistics CL & NLP, corpus linguistics, multilingual HLT |
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Cindy Li MS student, Linguistics CL, low-resource languages, language documentation |
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Yi-Ju Lin Ph.D. student, Linguistics CL & NLP, corpus linguistics |
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Yaguang Liu Ph.D. student, CS deep learning, NLP, text mining |
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Yang Janet Liu Ph.D. student, Linguistics CL & NLP, discourse structure |
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Matthew Marge Adjunct Lecturer / Program Manager at DARPA dialogue, situated interaction, natural language generation, machine learning |
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Karen McNeil Ph.D. student, Arabic Linguistics NLP, sociolinguistics |
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Corey Miller Adjunct Lecturer / Researcher at Rev.com speech recognition, speech synthesis, speaker verification, sociolinguistics, dialectology, Persian |
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Yifu Mu BA student, CS & BA+MS student, Linguistics NLP, language generation, MT |
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Masato Nakano MS student, Linguistics LFG, low-resource languages, corpus linguistics |
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Paul Portner Professor, Linguistics formal semantics, syntax/semantics interface, grammar formalisms, semantic representation, cognitive science |
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Achim Ruopp Adjunct Lecturer / Owner at Polyglot Technology machine translation, multilingual NLP, evaluation |
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Bradford Salen Ph.D. student, Linguistics computational approaches to second language processing, L1 acquisition, and psycholinguistics |
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Wesley Scivetti Ph.D. student, Linguistics CL & NLP, computational semantics, low-resource NLP |
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Nathan Schneider Associate Professor, Linguistics & CS CL & NLP, especially semantic representation, annotation, & analysis |
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Lisa Singh Professor, CS social graph mining, text mining, data science, visual analytics |
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Sajad Sotudeh Ph.D. student, CS NLP, information retrieval, medical and scientific text processing |
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Shabnam Tafreshi Adjunct Lecturer / Researcher at UMD Applied Research Lab for Intelligence and Security multilingual computational semantics, information extraction, annotation |
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Autumn Toney Ph.D. student, CS NLP, data mining, information retrieval |
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Nitin Venkateswaran MS student, Linguistics syntax-semantics, corpus linguistics, MT |
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Shira Wein Ph.D. student, CS CL & NLP |
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Ulie Xu BA+MS student, Linguistics CL & NLP, syntax, conversational AI chatbots |
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Grace Hui Yang Associate Professor, CS information retrieval, text mining, NLP, machine learning, privacy |
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Amir Zeldes Associate Professor, Linguistics corpus building, search and visualization; coreference resolution; digital humanities |
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Luopeng Zheng Ph.D. student, Linguistics machine learning, data science, NLP |
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Yilun Zhu Ph.D. student, Linguistics CL & NLP, coreference resolution, corpus linguistics |
Alumni
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Julie Hockett Undergraduate, CS major/Linguistics minor →2017 Google text mining, data science, NLP |
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Angela Yang Undergraduate, CS major/Linguistics minor →2017 Amazon information retrieval, dynamic search, signal processing |
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Shuo Zhang Ph.D. Linguistics →2017 Bose CL & NLP, coreference resolution, speech prosody, time-series data mining, music information retrieval |
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Arman Cohan Ph.D. CS →2018 Allen Institute for AI NLP, information retrieval, medical text processing |
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Jiyun Luo Ph.D. CS →2018 Pinterest information retrieval, session search, dynamic search |
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Dan Simonson Ph.D. Linguistics →2018 BlackBoiler CL & NLP, narrative, coreference, critical discourse analysis, modality, using NLP for real-world problems |
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Luca Soldaini Ph.D. CS →2018 Amazon →2022 Allen Institute for AI medical information retrieval |
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Clarissa Somers Undergraduate, Linguistics & CS →2018 CiBO →2019 M*Modal CL & NLP |
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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 | |
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Lucia Donatelli Ph.D. student, Spanish Linguistics →2019 Saarland University →2023 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam formal semantics, syntax/semantics interface, NLP |
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Akitaka Yamada Ph.D. Linguistics →2019 Surugadai University →2020 Osaka University corpus lingusitics, Bayesian stats, NLP, formal semantics |
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Mitchell Abrams MS Linguistics →2019 Army Research Lab →2021 Tufts (Ph.D. CS) computational forensic linguistics, corpus linguistics, authorship attribution |
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Sean Simpson Ph.D. Linguistics →2019 Google CL & NLP, computational sociolinguistics |
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Yue Yu MS CS →2020 Amazon NLP, reinforcement learning |
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Trevor Adriaanse MS Linguistics →2021 Department of Defense CL & NLP |
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Sean MacAvaney Ph.D. CS →2021 University of Glasgow information retrieval, NLP |
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Sichang Tu MS Linguistics →2021 Emory (Ph.D. CS) CL & NLP |
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Eugene Yang Ph.D. CS →2021 JHU unsupervised learning, NLP |
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Tianjiao (Joey) Yu MS CS →2021 Virginia Tech (Ph.D. CS) CL & NLP, syntax, semantics |
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Austin Blodgett Ph.D. Linguistics →2021 US Army Research Lab CL & NLP, computational semantics, mathematical approaches to linguistics |
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Emma Manning Ph.D. Linguistics →2021 Google CL & NLP |
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Yifan Zhu MS Linguistics CL & NLP, syntax |
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Ivy Wang BA CS & Linguistics →2021 Amazon syntax-semantics, corpus linguistics, NLP |
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Rob Churchill Ph.D. student, CS →2022 5-Out data mining, machine learning, text mining |
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Ryan A. Mannion BA+MS student, Linguistics →2021 BlackBoiler CL & NLP, syntax, morphology |
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Jakob Prange Ph.D. student, CS →2022 Hong Kong Polytechnic University CL & NLP, semantics, syntax, representation design, parsing/structured prediction |
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Jaren Haber Postdoctoral Fellow, MDI →2022 Dartmouth NLP, word embeddings, topic models, sociology |
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Kornraphop Kawintiranon Ph.D. student, CS →2022 Google data mining, machine learning, NLP |
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Siyao (Logan) Peng Ph.D. student, Linguistics →2023 LMU Munich CL & NLP, syntax, language diversity |