Daniel Foster

Virginia Tech

University of Amsterdam

Courses in linguistics with a focus on Spanish language, sociolinguistics, language change, and variation. MA Thesis, University of Amsterdam October 2015- March 2016Supervisor: Suzanne AalberseInterpreting the distribution of mixed use of pronominal address terms in Colombia using Twitter• Gathered data from Twitter API• Used regular expressions to parse through tens of thousands of tweets to find where and when Spanish speakers in Colombia used certain address… Show more Courses in linguistics with a focus on Spanish language, sociolinguistics, language change, and variation. MA Thesis, University of Amsterdam October 2015- March 2016Supervisor: Suzanne AalberseInterpreting the distribution of mixed use of pronominal address terms in Colombia using Twitter• Gathered data from Twitter API• Used regular expressions to parse through tens of thousands of tweets to find where and when Spanish speakers in Colombia used certain address terms (words for ‘you’) and especially instances when speakers mixed multiple forms in tweets• Sorted and wrangled data for qualitative and quantitative analysis, determining social situations, relationships, emotional state of the tweets• Presented to MA Seminar on Address Terms for Prof. Horst Simon, Freie Universität Berlin and to the Grammar & Cognition research group, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Show less

University of Gothenburg

Master's in Language Technology - Computational Linguistics and its applicationsCompleted coursework in 2018 and MA thesis while working full time in 2019Courses in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Statistical Methods, Dialogue Systems and more.Built skills in data gathering, preprocessing, NLP, and Information Extraction with a focus on natural language data.MA Thesis: Automatic Frame-Semantic Parsing for Linguistic DescriptionsSupervisor:… Show more Master's in Language Technology - Computational Linguistics and its applicationsCompleted coursework in 2018 and MA thesis while working full time in 2019Courses in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Statistical Methods, Dialogue Systems and more.Built skills in data gathering, preprocessing, NLP, and Information Extraction with a focus on natural language data.MA Thesis: Automatic Frame-Semantic Parsing for Linguistic DescriptionsSupervisor: Shafqat Virk -Applied deep learning to extract typological linguistic information from unstructured text -Used character based techniques to mitigate the effects of non-english/rare words unknown to the language model Show less

Universidad de Belgrano

Student Volunteer - Room Host

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