I work on computational approaches to linguistic metaphor as a SETA for the US Government's IARPA Program. I provide oversight of NLP teams composed of academic/industry collaborators each producing software suits designed to automatically identify and interpret linguistic metaphor in unstructured, natural language texts in English and other languages. The teams are using a mix of techniques and algorithms such as WordNet selectional restrictions, LDA topic models, dependency parsers, machine learning, and corpus statistics. It's my role to evaluate their methods, analyze their technical reports, and assist the government Program Manager in assessing the overall success of the processes and output of each system. Additionally, I provide oversight of human subject social science evaluation methods.

Specialties: Cognitive Linguistics, Metaphor, Corpus Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Text Analytics, social science evaluation