Chester Palen-Michel

Chester Palen-Michel

PhD Student

Brandeis University

Bio

My research interests lie in Natural Language Processing (NLP), which is an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of statistical machine learning and theoretical linguistics. In particular, I’m interested in NLP for lower resource languages, information extraction, information retrieval, and models of meaning and reference. I’m currently advised by Professor Constantine Lignos.

Prior to doctoral studies at Brandeis, I worked as a research programmer at University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute. Before working at ISI, I completed the MS in Computational Lingusitics at Brandeis in 2018. I also was formerly an English as a foreign language instructor at Kent State University.

Publications

Multilingual Open Text Release 1: Public Domain News in 44 Languages
SeqScore: Addressing Barriers to Reproducible Named Entity Recognition Evaluation
MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages

Teaching

Brandeis:

  • Teaching Assistant
    • Named Entity Recognition (COSI 217B, Spring 2022)
    • Natural Language Processing Systems (COSI 217B, Spring 2021)
    • Fundamentals of NLP (COSI 114a, Fall 2020)
    • Syntactic Theory (Ling 120, Fall 2017)
    • Language Acquisition (Ling 197a, Spring 2017)

Kent State:

  • English as a Second Language Instructor at ESL Center at Kent State University 2012-2016
  • Grammar: ENG 12402, ENG 12406, ENG 12407, ENG 12408, ENG 12409, ENG 12410
  • Listening: ENG 12206, ENG 12207
  • Reading: ENG 12109
  • Speaking: ENG 12304, ENG 12305, ENG 12307, ENG 12308
  • Summer programs
    • Kosovo Student Summer Program @ KSU 2016
    • Japanese Student Summer Program @ KSU 2015
    • Mexican Student Summer Program @ Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos 2013

Contact

  • first initial lastname (no hyphen) AT brandeis DOT edu
  • 415 South St, Waltham, MA 02453
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