Projects

Computational Linguistics / Natural Language Processing

Automatically Inferring Grammar Specifications for Valence-changing Verbal Morphology from Interlinear Glossed Text

Master's Thesis (Advisor: Prof. Emily M. Bender)
  • This work is part of the AGGREGATION project. The goal is to automatically infer valence-changing verbal morphology from interlinear glossed text (IGT) to answer the “valence-changing” part in the LinGO Grammar Matrix customization system.

Hixkaryana Grammar Implementation

Course Project for Knowledge Engineering For Deep Natural Language Processing
  • Analyzed Hixkaryana syntax.
  • Implemented various linguistic phenomena with Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) for Hixkaryana (clausal modifier, non-verbal predicate, tense, aspect, adnominal possession, determiners, wh-questions, argument optionality, and agreement).

Offensive Tweet Detection

Course Project for Natural Language Processing Systems And Applications
  • This project includes two end-to-end systems for classifying English and Greek tweets as offensive or non-offensive
  • Details can be found here

Psycholinguistics

A Study of L2 Acquisition of Backward Anaphora Resolution

Course Project for Sentence Comprehension
  • An empirical study of backward anaphora resolution for L1-Mandarin-L2-English learners