Ayla Taylor (She/her)
Currently living in
Waltham, Massachusetts, USWork Preferences
RemoteIn-PersonHybridOpen to roles
About Me
I just graduated from a computational linguistics MS program and am looking for work in NLP! I have been fascinated by linguistics since I was a child, studying it in undergrad, and later I discovered my interest in programming, so I combined the two.
Ideal Workplace Values
I want to work at a company where I am able to do work on interesting projects and create something useful. I want to be able to be creative with my work and experiment, but still have an overall goal to work towards. I also want to create something that would actually help people, and not violate their privacy or anything like that.
💪Skills and Strengths
My Neuro-exceptional talent
I can focus really intensely on a particular project or concept and I will look at it from all directions, including ones that other people miss. I am good at coming up with unusual solutions and making connections that other people miss.
Technical Skills
Git
Shell script
Numpy
scikit-learn
Top 5 Soft Skills
Strategic ThinkingLogical ReasoningWillingness to learnFriendlinessWilling to try new things🧠Inclusion Essentials
Accommodations
Send questions in advanceWritten interview instructionsTask managementCommunication planWritten checklistsReceive information in advanceWritten Instructions1:1 meetingsFlexible scheduleMeditation / quiet roomNoise-cancelling headphonesJob coachingSupport with advocating1:1s with the teamEnvironments I'm comfortable with
🚀Experience
Check out my work
| Worked for 4 months from Feb 2022 to May 2022 Feb 2022 May 2022 4 months | Contract Linguist - Textio Temporary contract for annotation and providing feedback on annotation guidelines and task parameters Linguistic Annotation |
| Worked for 1 years, 0 months from Jun 2021 to May 2022 Jun 2021 May 2022 1 years, 0 months | Research Assistant - Brandeis University Lab for Linguistics and Computation - Creating a domain-agnostic semantic ontology in collaboration with Dr. James Pustejovsky based on Generative Lexicon theory - Researched ontologies such as VerbNet, SIMPLE, SUMO and others, to improve our ontology - Extracted data from corpora using the Sketch Engine API and manipulated with Pandas PythonPandasPytorchHuggingFace transformers |
| Worked for 1 years, 3 months from Apr 2019 to Jul 2020 Apr 2019 Jul 2020 1 years, 3 months | Data Specialist / Annotation Developer - TekSystems - Supported Semantic Machines team in scaling of virtual assistant for MS Outlook from proof of concept to near launch - Annotated crowdsourced utterances for event and relation information using proprietary annotation system - Helped expand proprietary annotation system by developing new schemas and NLG templates - Developed training materials and trained annotators on specialized annotation tasks - Created classification systems for ASR errors and improved error identification pipeline - Most work was done on very specific proprietary software and annotation systems, which is why there aren't more hard skills listed PythonGitHubPower BI |
| Worked for 10 months from Oct 2017 to Jul 2018 Oct 2017 Jul 2018 10 months | Data Analyst - Doxo - Automated de-duplication and cleaning of large database using Python and Ruby - Extracted information from websites using BeautifulSoup and updated database - Developed system to update database with fewer errors going forward RubyPythonBeautifulSoupNumpyNLTK |
| Worked for 2 years, 8 months from Oct 2012 to May 2015 Oct 2012 May 2015 2 years, 8 months | Research Assistant - University of Pennsylvania Infant Language Lab - Annotated and analyzed child directed speech - Created experimental stimuli and analyzed data, using Excel, Python and R - Created and designed eye tracker experiments for independent project - Analyzed waveforms and spectrograms for phonetic features in Praat PythonUNIX ShellShell scriptMicrosoft ExcelPraat |
🎓Education and Credentials
| Attended for 2 years from 2020 to 2022 2020 2022 2 years | Brandeis University Master's degree - Computational Linguistics |
| Attended for 4 years from 2011 to 2015 2011 2015 4 years | University of Pennsylvania Bachelor's degree - Linguistics |