Hi! I’m Verena. I’m a first-year PhD student at the MaiNLP research group (Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich), supervised by Barbara Plank and Hinrich Schütze. My doctoral research focuses on NLP for dialects and low-resource language( varietie)s.
Previously, I obtained my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in computational linguistics at the University of Tübingen, where I was also part of Johannes Dellert’s team developing software for machine-assisted historical linguistics.
I am interested in:
- NLP for non-standard and low-resource language varieties: How can we build NLP tools that take into account linguistic variation, especially when we only have very little training data at our disposal?
- Language variation & change: How do language varieties differ from one another on a local scale (dialectology) and on a global scale (linguistic typology)? How do such differences develop over time? And how can we use quantitative methods to explore all of this?
- Interpretable machine learning: How, why and when do the NLP tools we use work? How can we use linguistic insights to improve ML for NLP? How can we make ML applications more transparent and fair, and how can we communicate the limitations of ML to the public?
News:
- 22–24 May 2023: I will be at NoDaLiDa to present an overview of Germanic LRL corpora
- 2–6 May 2023: I’m at EACL to present work on robust transfer to non-standardized language varieties at the VarDial workshop.
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