Associate Professor Contact Information shanest@uw.edu (206) 616-0997 GUG 415K Office Hours M 3-5PM Fields of Interest Cognitive Science Cognitive Science Computational Linguistics Computer Science Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Philosophy of Language Pragmatics Semantics Typology Biography Ph.D., Philosophy and Symbolic Systems, Stanford University, 2017 B.A., Philosophy, Math, and Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2011 Research Selected Research C.m. Downey, Fei Xia, Gina-Anne Levow, and Shane Steinert-Threlkeld. 2022. A Masked Segmental Language Model for Unsupervised Natural Language Segmentation. In Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pages 39–50, Seattle, Washington. Association for Computational Linguistics Download PDF Courses Taught Spring 2025LING 574 A: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing LING 574 B: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing LING 574 C: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing LING 575 A: Topics in Computational Linguistics LING 575 B: Topics in Computational Linguistics LING 575 C: Topics in Computational Linguistics Autumn 2024LING 571 A: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing LING 571 B: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing LING 571 C: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing LING 571 D: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing Spring 2024LING 574 A: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing LING 574 B: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing LING 574 C: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing LING 575 A: Topics in Computational Linguistics LING 575 B: Topics in Computational Linguistics LING 575 C: Topics in Computational Linguistics Autumn 2023LING 571 A: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing LING 571 B: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing LING 571 C: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing LING 571 D: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing Autumn 2022LING 571 A: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing LING 571 B: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing LING 571 C: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing LING 571 D: Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing Spring 2022LING 575 E: Topics in Computational Linguistics LING 575 F: Topics in Computational Linguistics LING 575 I: Topics in Computational Linguistics LING 575 J: Topics in Computational Linguistics LING 575 K: Topics in Computational Linguistics LING 575 L: Topics in Computational Linguistics Resources & Related Links Academic website Related News Related News Summer 2023 Highlights (September 5, 2023) Linguistics: Good to go for another 10 years (February 1, 2023) Letter from the Chair (September 2, 2022) Student news: Naomi Tachikawa Shapiro (September 2, 2022) Faculty Profile (May 10, 2021) CLMS News (October 6, 2020) Message from Chair Richard Wright (October 2, 2020)
