Research

My research combines machine learning with traditional literary scholarship, and has focused on humanities-centered language modeling, efficient pretraining, and analyzing orthographic variation in literary works. I am broadly interested in the set of topics that emerge at the nexus of literary scholarship, linguistics, and computational language modeling, particularly literary theory, semantics, pragmatics, and artificial neural networks.

Recent papers are listed below. A full list is on the CV.

Pretraining Language Models for Diachronic Linguistic Change Discovery

Transferring Extreme Subword Style Using Ngram Model-Based Logit Scaling

Examining Language Modeling Assumptions Using an Annotated Literary Dialect Corpus

Pairing Orthographically Variant Literary Words to Standard Equivalents Using Neural Edit Distance Models