My
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Boulder, CO 80302 | +1 (479) 209-8830 | benet.post@colorado.edu | LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/clairepost
| Interests: | Computational Linguistics; Documentation and Description of Endangered Languages; Computational Psycholinguistics; Phonetics and Phonology; South American Languages. |
| University of Colorado Boulder | GPA: 4.0 |
| PhD Computational Linguistics | 2023-2028 Graduating: Spring 2028 |
| University of
Southern California, Los Angeles
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GPA: 3.9 |
| Dual Degree: Bachelor of Science Computational Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts International Relations |
2019-2023 Graduated: Spring 2023 |
| Linguistics Department, CU Boulder – Doctoral Teaching and ResearchAssistant - Implemented novel machine learning algorithms using rules-based neuro-symbolic measures in low-resource unsupervised learning environments. This work specifically focused on a project addressing non-deterministic split-role conversion for UMR graphs, utilizing Python programming. Paper published, "Accelerating UMR Adoption: Neuro-Symbolic Conversion from AMR-to-UMR with Low Supervision" in the Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations at LREC-COLING 2024 - Collaborated on neurosymbolic, low-supervision Uniform Meaning Representation (UMR) graph bootstrapping for Arapahoe language, contributing to two published papers, "Bootstrapping UMR Annotations for Arapaho from Language Documentation Resources." and "Building a Broad Infrastructure for Uniform Meaning Representations." in Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pp. 2447-2457. 2024. - Founding member of LECs Research Lab and member of Boulder NLP, formerly known as the Computational Semantics group. Published a paper as part of a shared task with LECs Lab "On the Robustness of Neural Models for Full Sentence Transformation." In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP 2024), pp. 159-173. 2024. - Summer 2024, supervisor of a five person team working on the graphical conversion of Abstract Meaning Representations (AMRs) to Uniform Meaning Representations (UMRs). Oversaw and constructed annotation tasks for group members employing neuro-symbolic pre-graph-annotation to speed annotation efforts. |
Fall 2023 - Present |
| Language of the World, CU Boulder - Doctoral Teaching Assistant
- Taught three recitation sections for an introductory typology course in the Fall of 2023 and 2024 while developing comprehensive course materials, and conducting student assessments. - Received outstanding reviews from students on teaching performance. |
Fall 2023, Fall 2024 |
| Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Engineer, MaXentric - Interning Researcher
- Integrated advanced LLM tools from Hugging Face, developing a novel proposal generator tailored to government contracting needs. This system leverages fine-tuned models for text generation, producing comprehensive and contextually relevant proposal sections. - Developed image-to-text generation pipelines utilizing BLIP and Tesseract, enabling the automated extraction and description of visual data such as diagrams and charts for multimodal document integration. - Optimized complex pipelines for efficient proposal generation, ensuring high accuracy across textual and visual data and facilitating seamless context management throughout the document creation process. |
Summer 2024 |
| Language Processing Lab, USC – Research Assistant
- In Spring 2023, Presented a paper at the HSP conference delving into the singular "they" usage, while concurrently managing experiments on predicates of personal taste and last name-only usage production. - In Spring 2022, co-authored three papers presented at prestigious international conferences exploring into eminence verbs and the semantic consequences of last name-only references. Applied rigorous computational analysis in meticulously investigating biases within semantic properties of names and conducting corpus studies on RateMyProfessors.com, unveiling keen insight into gendered linguistic biases particularly for women in academia. - Assisting in lab that investigates the representations and mechanisms involved in language production and comprehension. - In Spring 2021 the lab was concerned with the perception of emoji ambiguities in social media, Covid-19 messaging responses, eye tracking studies, and implicit biases in social media. - In Fall 2021, built a Twitter Scraper in Python that uses Twint and Regex to enable psycholinguistic data gathering for corpus studies. - In Spring 2022, worked on three abstracts that would go on to be presented at international conferences that studied the s eminence verbs, and semantic consequences of using last name only references. - Fall 2022, continuing work on last name only references through looking for biases within semantic properties of names and exploring corpus studies of RateMyProfessors.com by writing Python scraping program to analyze real-world last name references. |
January 2021 – Present |
| Guaraní Preservation and Research, USC – Researcher - Working as website developer using HTML and CSS programming to create a website for Guaraní speakers and linguists to preserve the Guaraní language through linguistic analysis. - Provided phonetic transcriptions of Guaraní stories and conducted research on Guaraní morphemes. - Translated storybooks from English to Spanish. - Provided commentary and edits on Guaraní research papers. |
May 2022 – Present |
| American Sign
Language Machine Translation, USC –Researcher - Contributed research on lexical patterns in ASL to assist in machine learning techniques such as creating neural networks for hand recognition. |
December 2020 – July 2021 |
| University of
Southern California – Book Editor
and Research Assistant - Provided edits, commentary, and research for Fulbright-LASPAU Fellow Doctor Nicholás Albertoni’s PhD dissertation: The Murky Risk of Trade Protectionism in an Interconnected and Uncertain Global Economy. |
October 2020 - February 2021 |
| Voice of Specially
Abled People – Research Intern
- Conducted a group research project focusing on subpopulations left out of MMR Vaccination campaigns due to Covid-19. Contributed programming skills in R Studio to analyze information to create graphics and conduct original research. Posted to VOSAP website. |
June 2020 - August 2020 |
| Post, Claire Benét, Marie C. McGregor, María Leonor Pacheco, and Alexis Palmer. "Accelerating UMR Adoption: Neuro-Symbolic Conversion from AMR-to-UMR with Low Supervision." In Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations@ LREC-COLING 2024, pp. 140-150. 2024. Paper. Bonn, Julia, Matthew J. Buchholz, Jayeol Chun, Andrew Cowell, William Croft, Lukas Denk, Sijia Ge, Claire Benet Post, et al. "Building a Broad Infrastructure for Uniform Meaning Representations." In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pp. 2537-2547. 2024. Paper. Buchholz, Matthew J., Julia Bonn, Claire Benet Post, Andrew Cowell, and Alexis Palmer. "Bootstrapping UMR Annotations for Arapaho from Language Documentation Resources." In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pp. 2447-2457. 2024. Paper. Ginn, Michael, Ali Marashian, Bhargav Shandilya, Claire Benet Post, Enora Rice, Juan Vásquez, Marie Mcgregor, Matthew Buchholz, Mans Hulden, and Alexis Palmer. "On the Robustness of Neural Models for Full Sentence Transformation." In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP 2024), pp. 159-173. 2024. Paper. Post, Claire Benet, and Elsi Kaiser. "What’s in a name? An experimental investigation of last names and gender" Poster presented at the USC Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, May 2023. Poster. Kaiser, Elsi, and Claire Post. "Names and Pronouns with and without Gender Phi-Features: A Production Study of Singular They." Paper presented at the 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), University of California, Santa Cruz, May 5-7, 2023. Poster. Kaiser, Elsi, Claire Post, Deborah Ho, and Elsi Kaiser. “(Un)Certainty in Language and Cognition: Eyewitness Reports vs. Statistical Probability.” University of Oxford, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 2022. https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/3067/submission/314, 2022. September 2022. POSTER. ABSTRACT. Kaiser, Elsi, Claire Post, Deborah Ho, Haley Hsu, and Madeline Rouse. “How We Talk about People: Gender Bias Found from Eminence Verbs.” University of Oxford, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP Poster) 2022. https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/3067/submission/322/poster, n.d. 2022. Poster. Abstract. Kaiser, Elsi, Claire Post, Deborah Ho, Haley Hsu, and Madeline Rouse. “On the Semantic Consequences of Referring to a Person Using Only Their Last Name: Effects of Gender-Marked Pronouns on Dependency-Building.” PSICOM: Pragmatics and Semantics In Cognitive Modelling at Utretch University. https://psicom.sites.uu.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/472/2022/08/PROMS_2022_paper_12.pdf, 2022. ABSTRACT. Post, Claire, Bryant Cong, Deborah Ho, and Elsi Kaiser. “What’s in a Reaction? Emoji Response Ambiguities in Texts and Social Media.” USC Undergraduate SCymposium (Spring 2021). Poster. Post, Claire, Shaneel Badani, and Amanda Hmelar. “Impact of Covid-19 on Measles and Rubella Related Disabilities Following Vaccine Campaign Postponement.” Voice of Specially Abled People. 2020 https://www.voiceofsap.org/vri2020/. Paper. Presentation. |
Presentations, Posters, and Papers |
| Gomez, Nicolas Albertoni. “The Murky Risk of Trade Protectionism in an Interconnected and Uncertain Global Economy.” Edited by Claire Post. PhD Hooding Ceremony for Degrees Conferred in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Dissertation, University of Southern California, 2022. https://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/1/docs/usc-dornsife-hooding-ceremony-program-2022_v2.pdf. | Research Contributions |
| Undergraduate Honors Thesis: Eminence and
gender bias within last name only usage
- Used machine learning and NLP tools to analyze lexical properties of last names and the biases that exist within generative text technologies in comparison to experimental data collected through NSF funding. Won 1st place at undergraduate research symposium with presentation. |
Spring 2023 |
| What’s in a name? An experimental
investigation of last names and gender
- Received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to study bias found in last name references. - Conducted four experiments and completed a corpus study of Ratemyprofessors using Python and Rstudio to analyze not only how gender bias appears experimentally, but also in the real world. |
Summer 2022 |
| Endangered Language Preservation Group
- Received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to create a website using HTML and CSS programming for language research. - Wrote and animated a storybook to provide translated stories for young learners of endangered languages. |
Summmer 2021 |
| Mapuche Language
Fellowship at University of Texas at Austin
- The Indigenous Languages Initiative of LLILAS Benson & the Program in Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) at the University of Texas at Austin awarded a fellowship for a Summer Mapuche Workshop. - The course on Mapudugun, an endangered language of Chile, was taught in Spanish by language activist and Mapudungun speaker Maestra Clara Antinao. |
Summer 2021 |
| Languages | Fluent English Advanced Spanish Intermediate Ancash Quechua Beginner Mapudungun |
| Programming Languages | Advanced: C++, Python, R-studio Proficient: HTML, CSS, Qualtrics Advanced Formatting Basic: MATLAB |
| Technical Software | Praat, Qualtrics, Figma, TensorFlow, Pandas |