Jakob PRANGE
The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityTitle
Reanalyzing L2 Preposition Learning with Bayesian Mixed Effects and a Pretrained Language Model
Bio
Jakob Prange is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at Hong Kong PolyU. He got his PhD in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and his Computational Linguistics undergraduate degree in Saarbruecken, Germany. He is currently co-organizing the 17th ACL Linguistic Annotation Workshop and has previously co-presented a COLING tutorial on semantic representation. Whenever he isn't pondering on how language works in the first place and how linguistic representations should be designed and improved to capture this, Jakob's work centers around aligning efficient machine learning techniques with foundational linguistic perspectives.