Wesley Scivetti’s Personal Website

Biography

I am a PhD Candidate in Computational Linguistics at Georgetown University. My work focuses on using linguistic theory as a tool for interpreting language models, and on using language models as linguistic hypothesis testers and generators.

Previously, I received my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of North Texas in Linguistics, where I worked with Alexis Palmer and Taraka Rama studying computational semantics and historical linguistics.

Research Interests

My research interests include:

• Construction Grammar
• Filtered Corpus Training
• Statistical Theories of Language Acquisition
• Mechanistic Interpretability
• Computational Psycholinguistics
• Linguistic Dataset Creation and Evaluation
• Discourse Phenomena
• Adpositions