DB | Columbia CS

RESEARCH

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For a full list of my publications, please see my Google Scholar page.

News:

September 2024: I am presenting my work on identifying the relationship between empathy and code-switching in speech at INTERSPEECH in Kos Island! I will also give an invited talk at Columbia in Topics of Moral Philosophy (PHIL GR9180): Approaches to Applied Ethics — Philosophy of AI.

June 2024: I presented my work on measuring entrainment in spontaneous code-switched speech at NAACL in Mexico City.

August 2023: I presented my work on measuring formality in speech across domains and languages at INTERSPEECH in Dublin.

April 2023: I attended the CRA-WP Grad Cohort Workshop for Women in San Francisco.

March 2023: I presented my information-theoretic work on why and how Chinese-English bilinguals code-switch in writing at the Human Sentence Processing Conference in Pittsburgh. I was also an invited speaker at the Second Workshop on Processing and Evaluating Event Representations in Rochester.

June-August 2022: I participated in the JSALT 2022 workshop on multilingual and code-switching speech recognition.

code-switching Current Work — I am currently studying the paralinguistics of code-switching in speech by examining its relationship with various aspects of language production, including empathy and entrainment. I am also exploring written code-switching from the perspective of psycholinguistic information theory. Separate from code-switching, I am interested in measuring the linguistic notion of formality in speech.
abusive language Previous Work — Previously, I investigated how well neural networks "understand" abstract English syntax. I have also worked on racial bias, abusive language, and xenophobia on Twitter.