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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LEGAL ANNOTATOR August 2022 – (Current)

Exos Financial

• Applied linguistic and legal knowledge to create specific project-based datasets.

• Performed annotation to correct human and machine-generated representations of English sentences.

• Learned and applied specific legal and financial frameworks to transition swiftly between tasks.

• Assisted in the curation of a syntactic dataset.

PROJECT CONTRIBUTOR April 2021 – (Current)

Houma Language Project

• Worked closely with a medium-size team to assist in the reclamation of the Houma language.

• Assisted in the creation of the first Houma to English language dictionary.

• Led an independent project to create a Houma keyboard layout to facilitate online communication.

• Utilized open- and closed-source software to create online lessons for English speakers.

• Began as a Linguistics Intern in April 2021 and transitioned to current role during summer 2022.

EDUCATION

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY Spring 2022

Bachelor of Arts in International Studies, Bachelor of Arts in French Studies, Minor in Linguistics, Minor in Chinese

• Engaged with administrators in the Linguistics Program and campus community as a Linguistics Ambassador and Web Design Intern.

• Participated in independent study program with a faculty member to produce research for presentation at a linguistic conference.

• Graduated Summa Cum Laude with cumulative GPA of 3.99.

PRESENTATIONS (selected)

Southeastern Conference on Linguistics 89 April 2022

Assessing Keyboard Layouts for Indigenous Languages: Access and Development

• Identified challenges facing community developers of keyboards.

• Examined the availability of keyboards to speakers of indigenous languages in the United States.

• Analyzed the sophistication of keyboarding tools (spellcheck, text prediction, etc.) alongside basic input.

181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Seattle, Washington November 2021

Influence of Clear Speech on F0 Patterns of Mandarin Lexical Tones

• Worked closely with faculty advisor to develop project over two semesters.

• Examined current scholarship in acoustics in Mandarin and English.

• Recruited native Mandarin speakers for participation.

• Analyzed over two thousand individual audio files.

Southeastern Conference on Linguistics 87 (Cancelled in Advance of Presentation) March 2020

The Influence of English Orthography on Loanword Adaptation of Anglicisms in French Phonology

• Collaborated with professors to identify issues within research and problem solve.

• Parsed relevant journal articles in both French and English.

• Used relevant dictionaries to analyze English-French grapheme-phoneme pairings.

• Gathered responses from native French speakers for analysis of anglicism usage.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

STUDENT IT MANAGER September 2021 – May 2022

LSU Student Media

• Worked to diagnose and correct problems with individual systems in a timely manner.

• Updated the previous Student Media website to meet administrator expectations and to provide current information.

• Responsible for network drive and IP address management for university employees and student workers.

WEB DESIGN INTERN February 2021 – May 2022

Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

• Worked directly with Interim Program Director to organize content for program website.

• Replaced old website with an updated version to reflect current university design standards and administrator expectations.

• Revamped and managed the online presence of the program to aid current students and promote student recruitment.

SKILLS

• French reading, writing, and speaking proficiency: B2.

• Chinese reading and writing proficiency: Equivalent to Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi 3.

• Audacity: Competence in editing audio content for consistency and ease of listening.

• Praat: Experience in utilizing scripts to analyze large numbers of speech files for specific criteria with ease.

• Excel: Proficiency in organizing and analyzing large sums of data.

AWARDS

• LSU Aspire Grant Recipient – May 2020

• LSU Discover Travel Stipend – January 2020

• Eagle Scout – December 2018

REFERENCES

Dr. Irina Shport, Ph. D.

• Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of English.

• Professor in Linguistics course, Faculty mentor for Acoustical Society of America presentation.

• Email: ishport@lsu.edu.

• Phone: 541-227-3023.

Hali Dardar

• Co-Founder of Houma Language Project.

• Email: dardarh1@gmail.com.

John Friscia

• Director & Broadcast Engineer, LSU Student Media.

• Supervisor for Student IT Manager position.

• Email: friscia@lsu.edu.