I am a PhD candidate^(ABD) at the Johns Hopkins University's CLSP (Center for Language and Speech Processing), most days working on open-vocabulary language modeling: developing new models based on underlying discrete units and applying them to typologically different languages of the world.

Machine learning and natural language are fascinating.

Recent blog entries

• From PyTorch to JAX: towards neural net frameworks that purify stateful code (2020-03-09)
• Clowning in Pennsylvania (2020-03-02)
• My name is Sabrina – I'm trans (2019-12-30)
• Can you compare perplexity across different segmentations? (2019-04-23)
• NLP/CL Twitter Megathread (2017-04-08)
• Language diversity in ACL 2004 - 2016 (2016-12-22)
• Describing discontinuous constituents with LCFRS (2016-10-21)

CV (the gist of it)

Ph.D. Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA (09/2017 - ongoing)

• advised by Prof. Jason Eisner at the CLSP (Center for Language and Speech Processing)

Internship, Facebook AI Research (FAIR), New York City, NY (summer of 2020)

• analyzing (chit-)chat bots

Internship, Google, New York City, NY (summer of 2019)

• transliteration using pronunciation data and cross-language multi-task approaches

M.Sc. Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany (finished 07/2017)

• thesis: “Soft matching of terminals for syntactic parsing” (supervised by Prof. Heiko Vogler)

Internship, USC Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, CA (summer of 2016)

• machine translation / DARPA LORELEI under Prof. Kevin Knight and Prof. Daniel Marcu
• translating out-of-vocabulary words with unprocessed human-readable dictionaries

B.Sc. Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany (finished 08/2015)

• thesis: “Extracting and Binarizing probabilistic linear context-free rewriting systems”