vorpus.org - Nathaniel J. Smith: Academic homepage

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Until recently , I was a Computational Fellow at BIDS , the UC Berkeley Institute for Data Science, where I divide my time between computationally-informed research on human cognition (esp. language processing), and on building better computational tools for researchers in general.

Brief research statement: Language is one of humanity's most complicated artifacts -- yet language use is fast, effective, and tightly coordinated with concurrent non-linguistic activities. The goal of my research is to understand the architecture of the cognitive systems that allow language to be used in real time, and to interact in a fine-grained, flexible, and non-modular way with non-linguistic cognition and action. I'm interested in this both for its own sake, and because it seems to me a paradigm cas

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