MSHTM and topic based sentiment analysis of the AAHP corpus
A. Oppenheimer, K. Tang (forthcoming)
CV
Education
- B.A. with a major in English and American Studies and a minor in Romance Studies, Heinrich Heine University, June 2025
Work Experience
- Nov 2020 - Dec 2023: Administrative Assistant at Städteregion Aachen
- General office work during the Covid-19 Pandemic and first year of the russo-ucrainian war
Technical and Language Skills
Programming - Python, Matlab, CSS, Java, JavaScript, HTML, SQL, Markdown, R, Pure Data, Max/MSP, Scheme
Data Management - Git, Github, OSF.io, Codeberg
Data Collection - Qualtrics, Limesurvey
Document - LaTeX, Microsoft Office
OS - Linux, iOS, Windows
Cloud Computing - RunPod.io
- Research Tools:
- Linguistics - Praat, BERT, BERTopic, SBERT, LDA, NMF, FL Studio, Audacity, Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct, OPENAI API, Whisper ASR, NVIDIA Parakeet, Wav2vec, Festival TTS
- Bioinformatics - Mesquite, SplitsTree, DensiTree, FigTree, Tracer, BEAUTi, BEAST 2, Count, GLOOME, ALE, RANGER-DTL, AnGST
- Languages:
- German - Native Speaker
- English - C2
- Spanish - C2
- Russian - A2
- French - C1
Publications
Benchmarking HGT-inference methods against popular computational historical linguistics methods on the iecor-v1.2 dataset
A. Oppenheimer, S. Mishra, M. Lercher, J.M. List (forthcoming)
Talks
Building a chatbot website in Python with Flask
Talk at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany
Voices (almost) lost to history - The importance of topic modelling in combating historical marginalization
Talk at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Day of Science), Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany
The application of bioinformatic techniques in historical computational linguistics
Talk at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (SLAM LAB), Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany
Building websites in Python with Flask
Talk at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany
Data challenges of the ‘Reanimating African American Oral Histories of the Gulf South: Tailoring Education and Research through Natural Language Understanding’ project, NLP insights and future improvements of the project
Talk at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (SLAM LAB) & University of Florida(online), Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany
Data challenges of the ‘Reanimating African American Oral Histories of the Gulf South: Tailoring Education and Research through Natural Language Understanding’ project
Talk at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (SLAM LAB), Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany
The past, present and future of the canary independence movement
Talk at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany
Teaching
Service and leadership
- Currently working as a volunteer as part of the project “Enhancing Speech Technology and Resources on African American English,” in collaboration with the University of Florida