Dr. Allyson Ettinger, Assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago

Brain waves and Natural Language Processing,  N400 amplitude and vector space model behavior,  Contextual embeddings in words, Composition in Sentence Vector Representations, and BERT, what it is Not. Dr. Allyson Ettinger is a computational linguist and an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago, working on natural language processing and computational cognitive modeling. Her interdisciplinary work draws on methods and insights from cognitive science, linguistics, and computer science to examine meaning-extraction and predictive processes executed during language processing in humans and in artificial intelligence systems.