معرفی
Dr. Alexis Palmer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado. She specializes in computational discourse and semantics, computational linguistics for low-resource languages, and automated detection of offensive language in social media. Previously, she served as an Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas and held postdoctoral positions in Germany. She leads the NSF-funded FOLTA project (From One Language to Another), focusing on cross-linguistic methods for low-resource language processing tools. Her work emphasizes language documentation accessibility and pedagogical material development for endangered languages.
Education: PhD in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin (2009).
Research Interests:
- Computational methods for endangered languages
- Low-resource NLP systems
- Social media discourse analysis
- Universal Meaning Representation (UMR) frameworks
- Linguistic documentation infrastructure
Notable Achievements:
- Recipient of NSF CAREER Grant
- Pioneered the OLEA tool for offensive language analysis
- Developed the BELT initiative for endangered language technology
Grants & Projects:
- FOLTA Project (NSF-funded)
- National Decade of Indigenous Languages initiatives
- Collaborative research on UMR infrastructure
Labs/Teams: Directs the Computational Linguistics Lab at CU, collaborating with global partners on language documentation and revitalization efforts.
