Parsing dialog turns with prosodic features in English
Elizabeth Nielsen, Mark Steedman, and Sharon Goldwater. 2023. Parsing dialog turns with prosodic features in English. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2023, Dublin, Ireland. IEEE.
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Education
- PhD, Institute of Language, Cognition, and Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 2023 (expected)
- MSc in Computational Linguistics, University of Washington, 2018
- BA in Linguistics, Brigham Young University, 2015
Work experience
- 2023: PhD research intern, Google, Translation Research
- Developed methods for translating low-resource languages.
- 2022: PhD research intern, Google, GBoard Research
- Developed methods for handling regional variation in user-generated text
- 2018-2019: Machine learning engineer, Bose Corporation
- Developed solutions to problems in speech and language processing in order to drive product development
- 2017: Computational linguist, contractor through Appen Inc., onsite at Facebook Inc.
- Develop data curation practices and standards for several diverse NLU projects.
Publications
Distinguishing Romanized Hindi from Romanized Urdu
Elizabeth Nielsen, Christo Kirov, and Brian Roark. 2023. Distinguishing Romanized Hindi from Romanized Urdu. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computation and Written Language 2023, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Spelling convention sensitivity in neural language models
Elizabeth Nielsen, Christo Kirov, and Brian Roark. 2023. Spelling convention sensitivity in neural language models. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023, pages 1334–1346, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Zero-shot Cross-Linguistic Learning of Event Semantics
Malihe Alikhani, Thomas Kober, Bashar Alhafni, Yue Chen, Mert Inan, Elizabeth Nielsen, Shahab Raji, Mark Steedman, Matthew Stone. 2022. Zero-shot Cross-Linguistic Learning of Event Semantics. INLG 2022.
The role of context in neural pitch accent detection in English
Nielsen, Elizabeth, Mark Steedman, and Sharon Goldwater. "The role of context in neural pitch accent detection in English." Proceedings of EMNLP (2020).
Modeling adnominal possession in multilingual grammar engineering
Nielsen, Elizabeth, and Emily M. Bender. "Modeling adnominal possession in multilingual grammar engineering." In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, University of Tokyo, pp. 140-153. 2018.
Avoidance of Dissimilar Labial Onsets: The Case of Subanon
Blust, Robert, and Elizabeth Nielsen. "Avoidance of Dissimilar Labial Onsets: The Case of Subanon." Oceanic Linguistics 55, no. 2 (2016): 620-33. Accessed August 25, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26408430.
The systematic stretching and contracting of ideophonic phonology in Pastaza Quichua
Nuckolls, Janis B., Elizabeth Nielsen, Joseph A. Stanley, and Roseanna Hopper. "The systematic stretching and contracting of ideophonic phonology in Pastaza Quichua." International Journal of American Linguistics 82, no. 1 (2016): 95-116.
Teaching
Skills
- Python
- Machine learning, including deep learning (using PyTorch)
Languages
- English (native)
- Russian (fluent (C2))
- Spanish (conversational)
- French (read)