Carolyn Anderson

Carolyn Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Wellesley College, focusing on computational linguistics and artificial intelligence. Her research bridges language, cognition, and technology to address challenges in contextual meaning and human-computer interaction.

• Education: B.A. from Swarthmore College, M.A. and Ph.D. from University of Massachusetts Amherst.
• Research Focus: Context-sensitive meaning in natural language, large language models (LLMs), code generation, and psycholinguistic methods.
• Teaching: Affiliated with Wellesley College’s Computer Science Department, emphasizing AI and computational linguistics.

Her recent work analyzes LLMs’ limitations in pragmatic reasoning, evaluates their role for non-expert programmers, and explores cross-linguistic cognitive modeling. Publications span ACL, NAACL, FSE, and CLS conferences, with interests in grounded, interactive language technologies.

Contact: ca101@wellesley.edu or carolyn.anderson@wellesley.edu