Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), Center for Spoken Langauge Understanding (CSLU)

The Center for Spoken Language Understanding [at OHSU] is one of the country's premier centers for speech and language technology research. What makes us unique is our emphasis on diagnostic, remedial, and assistive applications to neurological disorders.

Focus in NLP and machine learning, especially LSTMs. Independent research project evaluated forum language patterns in terms of sentiment dictionaries over a large-scale dataset.

Research project

• A notebook showing t-SNE clusters of subreddits based on word use.
• Git repo
• A downloadable PowerPoint explaining t-SNE (presentation notes to come)

Reed College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon known for its academic rigor, senior thesis, and high proportion of graduates who go on to earn postgraduate degrees.

Specialized in minimalist syntactic theory and distributed morphology. Year-long, two course research thesis presented a theoretical explanation of a complex grammatical system in a low-resource language (Tukang Besi). Seminar style classes focused on interdisciplinary communication and evidence based, analytical thinking.

Thesis

• In PDF
• Some snippets to spark your curiousity: