Emily P. Ahn
Linguistics @ UW. Graduate student. Language enthusiast.
eahn @ uw . edu
I am a final-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.
news
Jun 25, 2024 | Three accepted papers! 1) The Use of Phone Categories and Cross-Language Modeling for Phone Alignment of Panãra in INTERSPEECH 2024; 2) Comparing Language-specific and Cross-language Acoustic Models for Low-resource Phonetic Forced Alignment in Language Documentation & Conservation; 3) Investigating the Acoustic Fidelity of Vowels across Remote Recording Methods in Linguistics Vanguard |
Mar 27, 2024 | Giving an invited talk at Columbia NLP Seminar (Spring 2024): Investigating the Corpus Phonetics Pipeline applied to Diverse Language Data |
Mar 22, 2024 | Presented an extended abstract at ComputEL-7 workshop: Phonetic Granularity Effects on Forced Alignment Across Panãra and English |
Mar 11, 2024 | Defended my General Examination. I’m a PhD Candidate now! |
Aug 22, 2023 | Presented a paper at INTERSPEECH 2023: An Outlier Analysis of Vowel Formants from a Corpus Phonetics Pipeline [paper] [poster] |
Jul 20, 2023 | Began co-instructing a summer course: UW LING 473 Basics for Computational Linguistics! |
Jun 9, 2023 | Awarded the UW Excellence in Linguistic Research Graduate Fellowship! |
Sep 24, 2022 | Shared thoughts on Data Collection, Bias, and Ethical Concerns in Speech Processing as a Panelist for the Speech for Social Good workshop at INTERSPEECH 2022 [video] |
Sep 23, 2022 | Finished an Applied Science internship at Amazon Care. |
May 24, 2022 | Presented a poster at ASA Spring 2022: Investigating the acoustic fidelity of remote recording methods [abstract] |