Lindia Tjuatja

Hi! I’m Lindia, a third-year PhD student at CMU’s Language Technologies Institute advised by Graham Neubig. My current research interests mainly lie in two areas: (1) the intersection of linguistics (syn+sem+prag) and language modeling and (2) understanding features of language data and their impact on language model performance. I’ve also worked on NLP for understudied and endangered languages. If you’re interested in any of the above, feel free to reach out!

I did my undergrad at UT Austin, where I studied linguistics and computer engineering. During my time there, I worked extensively with John Beavers on a project investigating verb class constraints on the English middle construction (e.g. This car sells well). I’ve also been fortunate enough to have great mentorship from many others, including the amazing computational linguistics faculty there. The summer before my senior year, I was an intern at CMU working with Shruti Rijhwani on transfer learning for OCR post-correction of endangered language text.

In my (precious) free time, I enjoy painting (oil and gouache are my mediums of choice), playing the viola, hanging out with my cat, running, and reading!