Welcome
I am a computational linguist and an assistant professor of Computer Science at Wellesley College.
Research
My research focuses on understanding how context-sensitive meaning is encoded in natural language. I study words whose meanings change depending on who is using them and where they are used.
I build computational models to understand how conversation participants use knowledge about each other's mental states. How do speakers think about their audience when deciding what to say? How do listeners use their knowledge of the speaker when figuring out the meaning of their utterances?
More recently, I have been focusing on evaluation large language models for natural language and code generation.
My dissertation, Shifting the Perspectival Landscape, is now on LingBuzz.
Interests
o Computational Modeling
o Semantics and Pragmatics
o Machine Learning
o Psycholinguistics
News
o March 2022: SantaCoder: Don’t Reach For the Stars! wins Best Paper Award at DL4C 2023.
o February 2022: Cross-linguistic differences in processing parentheticals between English and Korean accepted for presentation at Comparative Punctuation Worldwide.
o December 2022: I was invited to participate in the AAAI/ACM SIGAI New and Future AI Educator Program.
o December 2022: Grammatical Perspective-Taking in Comprehension and Production accepted to Open Mind.
o December 2022: EASEL lab member Skylar Kolisko successfully defends her honors thesis: Names in Large Language Models.
o November 2022: Exploring Social Biases of Large Language Models in a College Artificial Intelligence Course accepted to Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) 2023.
o August 2022: Code generation benchmark for 18+ programming languages released
o May 2022: EASEL lab member Funing Yang successfully defends her honors thesis: An Extraction and Representation Pipeline for Literary Characters
o May 2022: Eliciting Associated Motion Constructions in Two Zapotec Languages accepted to Semantic Fieldwork Methods.
o February 2022: Protagonist-Mediated Perspective presented in the Narration in Context workshop at DGfS 2022.
o January 2022: I was interviewed for a Wellesley spotlight article