Albert Webson

I spent most of my undergrad preparing for a PhD in political science, with particular interests in the United States Senate, the European Union, and the design of government procedures and institutions. However, I accidentally completed a research project in natural language processing; compounded with many other reasons, I’m now a computer science PhD advised by Prof. Ellie Pavlick.

My research seeks to answer the ambitious but inescapable question of “What does it take for a computer to genuinely understand language?” I’m currently working at the intersection among conceptual semantics, developmental psychology, and child language acquisition; plus, of course, how do they inform what types of grounding, structure, and evaluation we should have for NLP models.