About
Hello! I am a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, San Diego, where I am advised by Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick in the Berg Lab.
Previously, I received a research Master's degree at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where I was advised by Graham Neubig in the NeuLab.
Prior to CMU, I received my Bachelor's degree at UC Irvine (zot zot!), where I was a member of the Computation of Language Laboratory (CoLaLab).
Research
My research focuses on natural language processing and machine learning, particularly digital humanities. Currently, I am interested in NLP for historical documents, such as early modern books and manuscript collections, which offer a wealth of information about human history, but can be challenging for modern, data-hungry neural NLP models. For instance, movable type printing press-era books and scribal manuscripts are subject to sources of variation not found in recently printed books or digitized internet text. By collaborating with humanities scholars, we try to understand the complex data generating processes and develop novel NLP models with proper inductive biases for the digital humanities.
At CMU, I worked on machine translation with applications to assistive technology for simultaneous interpreters. A couple years earlier, I contributed to a project on multimodal analysis of Parkinson's disease at the Third Frederick Jelinek Memorial Workshop at JHU.
My research has been supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Publications
Please see my Google Scholar.
News
- [Apr 2023] Won best poster in Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering's Annual Research Expo.
- [Feb 2023] Presented "Contrastive Attention Networks for Attribution of Early Modern Print" at AAAI 2023!
- [Sep 2022] Preprint on temporal adaptation for social media posted on arXiv.
- [Jul 2022] Poster presentation for paper "Lacuna Reconstruction: Self-Supervised Pre-Training for Low-Resource Historical Document Transcription" at NAACL Findings 2022.
- [Feb 2022] Presented my research on low-resource handwriting recognition for Islamicate manuscripts at OpenITI teleconference.
- [Jul 2021] Presented in the panel "Computational Bibliography: Techniques and Analyses" at The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) 2021 with Christopher Warren and Max G'Sell (joint work with Kartik Goyal, Sam Lemley, and Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick).
- [Jul 2021] Presented "Shakespeare, Print Networks, and the History of Clandestine Printing" with Christopher Warren at Networks 2021 (joint work with Kartik Goyal, Sam Lemley, Max G'Sell, and Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick).
Teaching
- [Spring 2021] Teaching Assistant for CSE 291: Advanced Statistical NLP (Instructor: Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick)
Contact
📧 nvogler [-at-] ucsd [-dot-] edu