Publications & Projects

Selected Publications

Deep Learning Approaches to Semantic Role Labeling in Low-Resource Languages

Smith, J., Johnson, A., & Williams, R. (2024). Journal of Computational Linguistics, 50(2), 245-278.

This paper introduces novel neural architectures for semantic role labeling in languages with limited training data, achieving state-of-the-art results across multiple language families.

Contextual Word Embeddings: A Comprehensive Survey

Smith, J. & Chen, L. (2023). ACM Computing Surveys, 55(8), Article 164.

A comprehensive review of contextual embedding methods, from early approaches to current transformer-based models, with empirical comparisons across multiple benchmarks.

Attention Mechanisms for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval

Smith, J., Martinez, P., & Kim, S. (2022). Proceedings of ACL 2022, pp. 1823-1835.

We present a novel attention-based framework for cross-lingual document retrieval that outperforms traditional translation-based approaches.

Research Projects

Multilingual NLP for Underrepresented Languages

Funded by NSF, 2023-2026

Developing computational tools and resources for low-resource languages to promote linguistic diversity in AI applications.

Interpretable Neural Models for Clinical Text Analysis

Funded by NIH, 2022-2025

Creating interpretable machine learning models for extracting clinical information from electronic health records while maintaining transparency for healthcare professionals.