Team

The members of the CompLing Lab bring with them a diversity of interests and backgrounds ranging from language documentation to conlangs to artificial intelligence.

Advisor

Frederik Hartmann is Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics and specializes in computational models of language evolution and using AI methods to gain insights into various aspects of language change. He received his PhD in 2021 from the University of Konstanz (Germany) and has been working as tenure-track faculty at the University of North Texas since 2023.

Members

Elizabeth Brown is a recent graduate of the Master’s in Computational Linguistics program. She has participated in the lab since the fall of 2022, and after her graduation has done outreach on behalf of the lab and linguistics program. Elizabeth’s research interests include machine translation, particularly regarding French and Korean, as well as variation and change in African American English. She currently plans on pursuing her PhD.

William Locke is a recent graduate from the Computer Science and Engineering Dept at UNT, with an MS in Artificial Intelligence. He has been a part of the CompLing Lab since August 2022, and has worked on the lab’s Decipherment and Conlang projects. Besides this, he has also done research in applied AI with Dr. Yan Huang at UNT mapping radio power in urban environments and with Dr. Lu Liang at UC Berkeley detecting and segmenting trees from drone footage. He is currently looking at research and PhD opportunities in the theory and mathematics of Artificial Intelligence.

Carter Smith is a senior undergraduate student who will be graduating with a bachelor's in computational linguistics and information science in May 2025 and will continue on to pursue a master’s of science in computational linguistics at UNT beginning in Fall 2025. He has been a part of the CompLing lab since August of 2023. His other research interests include applications of computational tools to low resource languages, machine learning models for part-of-speech tagging, and phonological change.

 

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Past Members

Analiese Beeler is a fourth-year undergraduate student in French and linguistics with a concentration in computational linguistics. She has been a part of the CompLing lab since August 2023. Her other research interests include the language of abortion discourse, metaphor theory, and African American English. Her post-graduation plans are currently undecided.