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.
12 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 (124)
python10
coreference10
annotations10
lda10
deep-learning10
dialogue-systems10
phonetics10
text-processing10
dependency-tree10
javascript10
corpus10
theory10
sentiment-analysis10
tokenizer10
xml-editor10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
gucorpling/lab
May 2018 - Nov 2022
corpling@GU lab website
Contributions:123 commits, 124 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
disrpt/sharedtask2019
Dec 2018 - Sep 2022
Repository for DISRPT2019 shared task
Contributions:41 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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