Wandering with a Purpose: Some Thoughts on NLP and Charting Your Own Course

◾ Wandering with a Purpose: Some Thoughts on NLP and Charting Your Own Course.

◾ Speaker:
Maria Antoniak

◾ Talk Description:
This talk is part of the #women_in_nlp talk series, inviting women who successfully carved their career path in NLP to share their experiences and advice. Everyone is welcome to attend the talk not only women.

◾ Abstract:
I'll talk about my experiences in both academia and industry, emphasizing lessons I've learned along the way. I'll share what I hope is practical advice about navigating your career in NLP, discovering meaningful service opportunities to improve your community, and charting a course through the minefield of being a "woman in tech".

◾ Learn more about Maria:
Maria Antoniak is a Ph.D. candidate in Information Science at Cornell University. Her work focuses on unsupervised natural language processing methods and applications to computational social science and cultural analytics. She has a master's degree in computational linguistics from the University of Washington and a bachelor's degree in humanities from the University of Notre Dame. In industry, she has worked as a data scientist at a startup and interned at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter.

https://maria-antoniak.github.io/

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