GUCL: Computational Linguistics @ Georgetown
We are a group of Georgetown University faculty, student, and staff researchers at the intersection of language and computation. Our areas of expertise include natural language processing, corpus linguistics, information retrieval, text mining, and more, with participation from both the Linguistics and Computer Science departments.
GU research groups: Corpling, NERT, IRLab, InfoSense, Singh lab
Other GU groups: GU-HLT Group, GU Women Coders, Massive Data Institute, Tech & Society Initiative
Related academic groups in the DC/Baltimore region: Howard NLP, JHU CLSP, UMD CLIP, George Mason NLP
- 10/24/24: Op-ed and brief in Supreme Court ghost gun case (Kevin Tobia, Nathan Schneider, Brandon Waldon)
- 9/15/23: [Job] The Linguistics department will be hiring an Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics.
- 9/8/21: Congratulations to the Corpling lab on winning the DISRPT 2021 shared task on discourse processing!
- 8/27/20: First-Year Student Presented Paper at Prestigious Computational Linguistics Conference (Aryaman Arora)
- 9/10/18: #MeToo Movement on Twitter (Lisa Singh)
- 8/29/18: Cliches in baseball (Nathan Schneider)
- 1/20/18: The Coptic Scriptorium project (Amir Zeldes)
- Congratulations to Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian, and Georgetown alum Andrew Yates for winning a Best Long Paper award at EMNLP 2017!
- Congratulations to Ophir Frieder, who has been named to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA)!
- 9/19/16: "Email" Dominates What Americans Have Heard About Clinton (Lisa Singh)
- 7/12/16: Searching Harsh Environments (Ophir Frieder)
Mailing list: Contact Nathan Schneider to subscribe!
upcoming talks/events
- Maciej Ogrodniczuk (IPI PAN Warsaw): Linguistics, 9/6/24, 3:30 in Poulton 230
- Alexis Palmer (Colorado Boulder): Linguistics, 9/20/24, 3:30 in Poulton 230
- Barbara Plank (LMU Munich): CS, Thurs. 10/10/24, 1:00 in STM 414
- Eugene Yang (JHU): CS, 11/1/24, 12:15 in STM 107
- Kyle Mahowald (UT Austin): Linguistics, 11/1/24, 3:30 in Poulton 230
- William Schuler (OSU): Linguistics, 3/21/25, 3:30 in Poulton 230
- Ellie Pavlick (Brown): Linguistics, 4/4/25, 3:30 in Poulton 230
- Previous talks
People
Amro Abdalla Ph.D. student, CS multimodal learning, vision and language, explainable AI | |
Trevor Adriaanse Adjunct Lecturer / Department of Defense (and MS alum) CL & NLP | |
Mohamed Ahmed Ph.D. student, CS deep learning, NLP, explainable AI | |
Chloe Anderson Undergraduate, CS & Linguistics major machine learning, AI research, AI safety | |
Tatsuya Aoyama Ph.D. student, Linguistics NLP, corpus linguistics, SLA, interlanguage | |
Le Bao Postdoctoral Fellow, Massive Data Institute machine learning, Bayesian statistics, survey methodology | |
Sarah Adel Bargal Assistant Professor, CS deep learning, vision and language, explainable AI | |
Austin Blodgett Adjunct Lecturer / Researcher at U.S. Army Research Laboratory (and Ph.D. alum) CL & NLP, computational semantics, mathematical approaches to linguistics | |
Claire Bonial Adjunct Lecturer / Researcher at U.S. Army Research Laboratory computational semantics, human-robot dialogue, construction grammar, semantic world modeling and reasoning | |
Lanni Bu MS student, Linguistics CL & NLP, computational psycholinguistics, language processing, corpus linguistics | |
Mikayla Campbell MS student, Linguistics NLP, language preservation & revitalization, language data sovereignty | |
Rui Chen MS student, CS NLP, deep learning, data analytics | |
Victor De Lima Ph.D. student, CS machine learning, agent-based information retrieval, conversational agents | |
Dan DeGenaro MS student, Linguistics computational sociolinguistics, models of language change and variation, low-resource languages and varieties, AI ethics | |
Sibo Dong Ph.D. student, CS deep learning, information retrieval, NLP, deep reinforcement learning | |
Ophir Frieder Professor, CS & Georgetown Medical Center information retrieval, text mining, bioinformatics, wireless networks | |
Joe Garman Assistant Professor, Nursing & Human Science CL & NLP, speech recognition & signal processing | |
Nazli Goharian Clinical Professor, CS information retrieval, text mining, biomedical/health informatics | |
Triveni Guharoy MA in Language and Communication student, Linguistics speech recognition, phonology and phonotactics, sociolinguistics | |
Zhuoxuan Ju MS student, Linguistics CL & NLP, L2 acquisition | |
Hrishikesh Kulkarni Ph.D. student, CS information retrieval, deep reinforcement learning | |
Lauren Levine Ph.D. student, Linguistics CL & NLP, corpus linguistics, multilingual HLT | |
Yi-Ju Lin Ph.D. student, Linguistics CL & NLP, corpus linguistics | |
Yaguang Liu Ph.D. student, CS deep learning, NLP, text mining | |
Rupayan Mallick Postdoctoral Fellow, CS deep learning, multimodal learning, explainable AI, vision and language | |
Helge Marahrens Postdoctoral Fellow, Massive Data Institute NLP, predictive text mining, explainable AI, record linkage & fuzzy matching | |
Matthew Marge Adjunct Lecturer / Program Manager at DARPA dialogue, situated interaction, natural language generation, machine learning | |
Corey Miller Adjunct Lecturer / Researcher at Rev.com speech recognition, speech synthesis, speaker verification, sociolinguistics, dialectology, Persian | |
Hyun Min Ph.D. student, Linguistics CL, human-like NLP, representations of structure in language | |
Masato Nakano MS student, Linguistics LFG, low-resource languages, corpus linguistics | |
Rich Pihlstrom BA student, CS & BA+MS student, Data Science and Analytics data science, urban analytics, NLP, machine learning | |
Paul Portner Professor, Linguistics formal semantics, syntax/semantics interface, grammar formalisms, semantic representation, cognitive science | |
Abhishek Purushothama Ph.D. student, CS CL & NLP, low-resource and multilingual NLP, programming languages | |
Emma Rafkin MS student, Linguistics NLP, information extraction, low-resource languages | |
Eliza Rice MS student, Linguistics CL & NLP, computational sociolinguistics | |
Achim Ruopp Adjunct Lecturer / Owner at Polyglot Technology machine translation, multilingual NLP, evaluation | |
Bradford Salen Ph.D. student, Linguistics computational approaches to second language processing, L1 acquisition, and psycholinguistics | |
Wesley Scivetti Ph.D. student, Linguistics CL & NLP, computational semantics, low-resource NLP | |
Nathan Schneider Associate Professor, Linguistics & CS CL & NLP, especially semantic representation, annotation, & analysis | |
Lisa Singh Professor, CS & McCourt School of Public Policy social graph mining, text mining, data science, visual analytics | |
Shabnam Tafreshi Adjunct Lecturer / NLP Researcher at eviCore Healthcare multilingual computational semantics, information extraction, annotation | |
Devika Tiwari Ph.D. student, Linguistics cognitive science and NLP, figurative language, discourse parsing | |
Kevin Tobia Professor of Law law and language, CL & NLP | |
Autumn Toney Ph.D. student, CS NLP, data mining, information retrieval | |
Yanchen Wang Ph.D. student, CS ML fairness, NLP, deep learning, text mining | |
Brandon Waldon Postdoctoral Fellow, Massive Data Institute & CS & Linguistics CL & NLP, cognitive science, law and language, semantics/pragmatics | |
Ethan Wilcox Assistant Professor, Linguistics cognitive modeling, psycholinguistics, analysis and interpretation of LLMs, machine learning | |
Jingni Wu MS student, Linguistics CL & NLP, computational semantics | |
Grace Hui Yang Associate Professor, CS information retrieval, text mining, NLP, machine learning, privacy | |
Xiulin Yang Ph.D. student, Linguistics neuro-symbolic NLP, meaning representation, compositional generalisation, coreference resolution | |
Amir Zeldes Associate Professor, Linguistics corpus building, search and visualization; coreference resolution; digital humanities | |
Luopeng Zheng Ph.D. student, Linguistics machine learning, data science, NLP |
Alumni
Julie Hockett Undergraduate, CS major/Linguistics minor →2017 Google text mining, data science, NLP | |
Angela Yang Undergraduate, CS major/Linguistics minor →2017 Amazon information retrieval, dynamic search, signal processing | |
Shuo Zhang Ph.D. Linguistics →2017 Bose CL & NLP, coreference resolution, speech prosody, time-series data mining, music information retrieval | |
Arman Cohan Ph.D. CS →2018 Allen Institute for AI →2023 Yale NLP, information retrieval, medical text processing | |
Jiyun Luo Ph.D. CS →2018 Pinterest information retrieval, session search, dynamic search | |
Dan Simonson Ph.D. Linguistics →2018 BlackBoiler CL & NLP, narrative, coreference, critical discourse analysis, modality, using NLP for real-world problems | |
Luca Soldaini Ph.D. CS →2018 Amazon →2022 Allen Institute for AI medical information retrieval | |
Clarissa Somers Undergraduate, Linguistics & CS →2018 CiBO →2019 M*Modal CL & NLP | |
Stacy Petersen Ph.D. Linguistics →2018 MITRE NLP, big data extraction, phonetics/phonology, speech recognition & signal processing | |
James Maguire MS Linguistics →2019 ABAKA →2020 Adecco →2021 Referment neural networks, computational & formal semantics, theory of computation | |
Lucia Donatelli Ph.D. student, Spanish Linguistics →2019 Saarland University →2023 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam formal semantics, syntax/semantics interface, NLP | |
Akitaka Yamada Ph.D. Linguistics →2019 Surugadai University →2020 Osaka University corpus lingusitics, Bayesian stats, NLP, formal semantics | |
Mitchell Abrams MS Linguistics →2019 Army Research Lab →2021 Tufts (Ph.D. CS) computational forensic linguistics, corpus linguistics, authorship attribution | |
Sean Simpson Ph.D. Linguistics →2019 Google CL & NLP, computational sociolinguistics | |
Yue Yu MS CS →2020 Amazon NLP, reinforcement learning | |
Trevor Adriaanse MS Linguistics →2021 Department of Defense CL & NLP | |
Sean MacAvaney Ph.D. CS →2021 University of Glasgow information retrieval, NLP | |
Sichang Tu MS Linguistics →2021 Emory (Ph.D. CS) CL & NLP | |
Eugene Yang Ph.D. CS →2021 JHU unsupervised learning, NLP | |
Tianjiao (Joey) Yu MS CS →2021 Virginia Tech (Ph.D. CS) CL & NLP, syntax, semantics | |
Austin Blodgett Ph.D. Linguistics →2021 US Army Research Lab CL & NLP, computational semantics, mathematical approaches to linguistics | |
Emma Manning Ph.D. Linguistics →2021 Google →2024 Grid Dynamics CL & NLP | |
Yifan Zhu MS Linguistics →2021 Brandeis (Ph.D. CS) CL & NLP, syntax | |
Ivy Wang BA CS & Linguistics →2021 Amazon syntax-semantics, corpus linguistics, NLP | |
Rob Churchill Ph.D. CS →2022 5-Out data mining, machine learning, text mining | |
Ryan A. Mannion BA+MS Linguistics →2021 BlackBoiler CL & NLP, syntax, morphology | |
Jakob Prange Ph.D. CS →2022 Hong Kong Polytechnic University →2023 University of Augsburg CL & NLP, semantics, syntax, representation design, parsing/structured prediction | |
Jaren Haber Postdoctoral Fellow, MDI →2022 Dartmouth NLP, word embeddings, topic models, sociology | |
Kornraphop Kawintiranon Ph.D. CS →2022 Google data mining, machine learning, NLP | |
Yifu Mu BA CS & BA+MS student, Linguistics →2022 Comcast NLP, language generation, MT | |
Siyao (Logan) Peng Ph.D. Linguistics →2023 LMU Munich CL & NLP, syntax, language diversity | |
Nitin Venkateswaran MS Linguistics →2023 University of Florida (Ph.D. Linguistics) syntax-semantics, corpus linguistics, MT | |
Pamela Katali MS CS →2023 Dick's Sporting Goods NLP, machine learning, syntax | |
Luke Gessler Ph.D. Linguistics →2023 University of Colorado Boulder →2024 Indiana University CL & NLP, computational methods in language documentation | |
Wai Ching Leung MS Linguistics →2023 Comcast CL & NLP | |
Ulie Xu BA+MS, Linguistics →2023 Comcast CL & NLP, syntax, conversational AI chatbots | |
Aryaman Arora BS CS & BA Linguistics →2023 Stanford (Ph.D. CS) CL & NLP, South Asian linguistics, meaning representation, phonology | |
Karen McNeil Ph.D. Arabic Linguistics →2023 Innodata NLP, sociolinguistics | |
Yilun Zhu Ph.D. Linguistics →2024 Staples CL & NLP, coreference resolution, corpus linguistics | |
Tom Lupicki Undergraduate, CS major/Linguistics minor →2024 Johns Hopkins (M.S. CS) NLP, CL, machine learning, syntax | |
Yang Janet Liu Ph.D. Linguistics →2024 LMU Munich CL & NLP, discourse structure | |
Sajad Sotudeh Ph.D. CS →2024 Comcast NLP, information retrieval, medical and scientific text processing | |
Shira Wein Ph.D. CS →2024 Amherst College CL & NLP | |
Jessica Cusi MS Linguistics →2024 Five9 NLP, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics | |
Caroline Gish MS Linguistics →2024 NobleReach Scholars Program CL & NLP, computational semantics | |
Cindy Li MS Linguistics →2024 Capitol One CL, low-resource languages, language documentation | |
Michael Kranzlein Ph.D. CS (2024) CL & NLP, machine learning, data science | |
Shabnam Behzad Ph.D. CS →2024 Reka AI NLP, grammatical error correction, data augmentation |