Research

• I expect to graduate in 2021. After defending my PhD, I plan on moving to a postdoc position at a university. If we run into each other and you have an open position that I might be a good fit for, I'd love to talk about that!
• I am currently working on my PhD thesis on verb alternations and their impact on frame induction. My experiments so far have mainly focused on the automatic identification of alternating verbs in English based on their behavior in corpora. Semantic frames in the sense of Barsalou seem to be a good representation for thinking about alternating verbs, because they make it possible to make a useful distinction between the different forms that each participating verb can take. Check out my publications or talk to me if you want to know more about my current work!
• In June of 2017, I submitted my Master's thesis with the title Vector Semantics and Dependency Parsing: Investigating the Influence of Distributional Properties on Parsing Accuracy. The aim of my work was to analyse the ways in which word vectors can change the decisions of a dependency parser. Although much recent work has shown that distributional information can improve dependency parsing accuracy by several percent, I found that vectors can also decrease the performance of the parser for some dependency relations. It must be possible to develop a parser that knows which dependency relations can benefit from distributional information and which ones can't.