Bethany Elise Toma

Analyzing natural language data and identifying interesting research avenues, designing and grading assignments and advising first-semester students in graduate-level NLP course, annotating research data (both automatically and manually), researching science outreach strategies

Scheduling, running, and documenting linguistic experiments with student participants, ensuring institutional ethics guidelines were followed, filing the required paperwork, reporting results to supervisor

Annotating English language texts, reporting problems with and suggesting improvements to annotation guidelines

Natural language processing and machine-learning insofar as it applies to NLP, with particular focus on semantic parsing and visually-based question answering

Double major in Linguistics & Chinese with honors research distinction in Linguistics for bachelor's thesis "The Semantics and Pragmatics of Right Dislocation: Odd thing, that."