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Biography

I am a PhD Candidate in Computational Linguistics at Georgetown University, advised by Dr. Nathan Schneider. 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. I’m a member of the NERT, Corpling, and PiCoL labs.

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
• Data-driven Interpretability (Particularly Filtered Corpus Training and Mechanistic Interpretability)
• Computational Psycholinguistics (Particularly Language Acquisition)
• Linguistic Dataset Creation and Evaluation
• Discourse Phenomena
• Adpositions