Anna Widiger
Computational Linguist
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAnna Widiger is a computational linguist based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience applying both rule-based and machine learning approaches to NLP problems such as text normalization, classification, NER and event detection across multilingual corpora (20+ languages). She blends rigorous cognitive psychology training—experimental design and statistical analysis in R/SPSS—with hands-on software development (Java, SQL, regex, Perl/bash) to build practical language technologies and educational language-learning modules. Her background includes corpus alignment work at the European Commission’s JRC and parser/grammar development for German and Russian, reflecting deep expertise in linguistics-informed engineering. Comfortable with spaCy, scikit-learn and Keras, she iterates between research and production, bringing psycholinguistic insight to ML-driven NLU systems. An often overlooked strength is her long history of part-time software roles since 2004, which gives her a pragmatic, product-focused perspective on academic research.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, 1.6 (A-), Abitur, 1.6 (A-) at Gymnasium MarktoberdorfMaster's degree postgraduate track (Diplom), First Major: Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Second Major: Educational Psychology, HCI, Master's degree postgraduate track (Diplom), First Major: Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Second Major: Educational Psychology, HCI at University of TübingenBachelor’s Degree, Psychology, A (good), German GPA 2.1, Bachelor’s Degree, Psychology, A (good), German GPA 2.1 at University of Koblenz and LandauSpecialization: interpreter, translator for German/English, German Studies, German Literature, Linguistics, no final grade, left university to move to Germany with my family, Specialization: interpreter, translator for German/English, German Studies, German Literature, Linguistics, no final grade, left university to move to Germany with my family at Institute of foreign languages, USPU Ekaterinburg / Институт иностранных языков УрГПУ
English, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (5)
r-programming7
python5
science5
machine-learning4
data-science3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
forastera/Data-Science-Light
May 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:132 commits, 64 PRs, 108 pushes in 1 year 1 month
pythonsciencedata-sciencemachine-learningdata-science-learning
forastera/Sentiment_analysis
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
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