Lindia Tjuatja

Hi! I’m Lindia, a second-year PhD student at CMU’s Language Technologies Institute advised by Graham Neubig. I did my undergrad at UT Austin, where I studied linguistics and computer engineering. My current research interests mainly lie in three areas: computational approaches to syn+sem+pragmatics, NLP for endangered and understudied languages, and how we can use technologies like large language models as tools to investigate the humanities (but especially linguistics!). If you’re interested in any of the above, feel free to reach out.

At UT, I’ve been working 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 and Graham Neubig 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, travelling, and reading!