About

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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 machine translation, reliable corpus building, multilinguality, 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. One of my main strengths is breadth of knowledge: 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).

I’m always keen to talk ideas or hear about interesting projects! The best way to contact me is by email, but feel free to get in touch using any of the platforms listed at the bottom of the page.

I’m on the job market! I’m looking for NLP/data roles with plenty of variety, technical challenge, and opportunities for growth. Job titles like research scientist, applied scientist, or research engineer are likely a good fit. Please reach out with any opportunities!