Amir Zeldes
Associate Professor Of Computational Linguistics At Georgetown University
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolAmir Zeldes is an Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics at Georgetown University with 11 years of experience building and studying corpora, annotation interfaces, and NLP tools that streamline corpus creation. He directs Corpling@GU, a university corpus lab that combines rigorous linguistic research with practical tooling for large-scale annotation projects. Trained with a PhD from Humboldt University (summa cum laude) and a background in cognitive science, his work bridges theoretical linguistics and applied NLP engineering. Known for making data-centric workflows more accessible, he focuses on reproducible resources and interfaces that lower the barrier to high-quality annotated corpora.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Linguistics, summa cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Linguistics, summa cum laude at Humboldt University of BerlinBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cognitive Science and Linguistics, summa cum laude, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cognitive Science and Linguistics, summa cum laude at The Hebrew University
English, Hebrew, German, French, Japanese, Polish, Arabic, Italian, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (164)
urn10
arabic-nlp10
coreference10
annotations10
python10
url-parsing10
lda10
dialogue-systems10
computational-linguistics10
deep-learning10
phonetics10
text-processing10
javascript10
corpus10
katakana10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
CopticScriptorium/coptic-nlp
May 2016 - Aug 2022
Coptic NLP pipeline page and utilities
Contributions:4 releases, 281 commits, 20 PRs in 6 years 4 months
nlppipelineurl-parsingfasttextnlp-pipeline
UniversalDependencies/UD_Coptic-Scriptorium
May 2016 - Oct 2024
Contributions:6 PRs, 125 pushes, 5 comments in 8 years 6 months
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