About

A picture of Laurie, a white person with blue eyes and short purple hair.

Hi, I’m Laurie! I’m very happy to live in Edinburgh where I currently work as a research assistant at the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation. My interests in this sphere include creating reliable multilingual corpora, machine translation, and extending NLP technologies to under-served languages.

Workwise, I enjoy learning new skills, puzzling things out, and coming up with meaningful solutions to technical problems. I did various things before I came to NLP: I have experience as a big-data analyst, data scientist, linguist (languages not linguistics!), and statistical economist inter alia. I can also organise a nice day out on the Scottish hills (weather permitting).

The best way to contact me is Bluesky. I’m always happy to hear about interesting projects!