Ayla Taylor

Experience

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  University of Pennsylvania

  Oct 2012 - May 2015

  Research Assistant

  Research Assistant at the Penn Infant Language Center. PI: Dan SwingleyOutcomes: Created new recruitment opportunities. Designed experiments and created stimuli for various studies, including independent project for thesis. Independently managed lab in absence of supervisor. Duties: Scheduled participants via phone and email. Greeted participants, ran experiments and processed payments. Created and designed experiments, including creating stimuli and creating the experimental setup. Gathered and analyzed data. Wrote and altered programs to aid in experiment creation and data analysis. Performed general administrative tasks. Show less

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  University of Pennsylvania

  Aug 2015 - Nov 2017

  Administrative Assistant at Center for Health Equity ResearchSupervisor: Janet DeatrickOutcomes: Planned equity based symposiums, created faculty and student based activities involving diverse constituencies. Duties: Greeted visitors to the center at the front desk, answered phones, performed general administrative duties. Ordered supplies and catering on University system, wrote timely and accurate minutes of faculty meetings, helped organized and run academic talks and symposiums. Show less

  • Administrative Assistant

    Aug 2016 - Nov 2017

  • Administrative Assistant

    Aug 2015 - Jul 2016
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  Doxo

  Oct 2017 - Jul 2018

  Data Analyst

  - Automated de-duplication and cleaning of large database using Python and Ruby- Extracted information from websites using BeautifulSoup and updated database- Developed system to update database with fewer errors going forward

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  Mighty AI

  Nov 2018 - Jan 2019

  Quality Assurance Analyst

  Evaluated crowd-sourced data

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  TEKsystems

  Mar 2019 - Jul 2020

  Data Specialist/Annotation Developer w/ Microsoft

  - Reviewed and annotated crowdsourced utterances for training a conversational AI with Semantic Machines team- Created annotation guidelines and NLG templates in the calendar domain- Developed training materials and trained annotators on specialized annotation tasks- Created classification systems for ASR errors and improved error identification pipeline

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  Brandeis University

  Jun 2021 - May 2022

  Research Assistant

  - Creating a domain-agnostic semantic ontology in collaboration with Dr. James Pustejovsky based on Generative Lexicon theory- Developing hierarchy and classification for adjectives using vector analysis- Researched ontologies such as VerbNet, SIMPLE, SUMO and others, to improve our ontology - Extracted data from corpora using the Sketch Engine API and manipulating with Pandas

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  Textio

  Feb 2022 - May 2022

  Contract Linguist

  - Temporary contract for expert annotation task- Provide feedback on guidelines and task parameters

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  Varsity Tutors, a Nerdy Company

  Jul 2022 - Dec 2022

  Computer Science Tutor

  Tutor various students in Python, Java, machine learning and discrete math.

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  Textio

  Sept 2022 - Dec 2022

  Contract Linguist

  - Temporary contract for expert annotation task- Provide feedback on guidelines and task parameters

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  Fidelity Investments

  Dec 2022 - now

  Sr. NLP Analyst, Digital Solutions

  - Handling NLP capabilities for the automated phone system- Restructured large number of intents and added entity recognition- Managed annotation projects- Evaluated and adapted existing models - Side project: built a bespoke annotation tool to fit specific need