eahn @ uw . edu

I am a fifth-year PhD candidate in Computational Linguistics at the University of Washington advised by Gina-Anne Levow, Richard Wright, and Eleanor Chodroff. My current work has focused on analyzing aspects of the corpus phonetics pipeline to enable the study of multilingual and low-resourced language varieties. A broad goal of my work is to enhance the accessibility of modern NLP and speech technologies to diverse communities.

Through the support of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, some of my past projects include analyzing acoustic word embeddings of multilingual named entities, investigating accommodation in code-switched dialogues, and detecting microaggressions in social media text. I have completed my Masters at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where I was co-advised by Alan Black and Yulia Tsvetkov. Before any graduate studies, I spent 1 year at SRI International, working in their Speech Technology and Research Lab. Prior to that, I graduated from Wellesley College in 2016, where I studied Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences with a concentration in Computer Science. I encourage students to contact me with questions about Computational Linguistics, NLP, graduate school, applications, etc—just email me!

When I’m not working, I like to knit, crochet, play drums, listen to jazz, and most of all share meals and conversations with friends. Once upon a time, I did taekwondo and rowing for sport.