Publications
A Lightweight Method to Generate Unanswerable Questions in English (to appear)
V. Gautam, M. Zhang, and D. Klakow.
Findings of EMNLP, 2023.
Factoring the Matrix of Domination: A Critical Review and Reimagination of Intersectionality in AI Fairness
A. Ovalle, A. Subramonian, V. Gautam, G. Gee, and K-W Chang.
AIES, 2023.
Avengers, Ensemble! Benefits of ensembling in grapheme-to-phoneme prediction
V. Gautam, W. Y. Li, Z. Mahmood, F. Mailhot, S. Nadig, R. Wang, and N. Zhang.
SIGMORPHON, 2021.
The Gender Gap Tracker: Using Natural Language Processing to measure gender bias in media
F. T. Asr, M. Mazraeh, A. Lopes, V. Gautam, J. Gonzales, P. Rao, and M. Taboada.
PLoS ONE, 2021.
Where I've worked
- PhD Candidate and Researcher at Saarland University's Spoken Language Systems group (language modelling; domain adaptation; question answering; Python)
- Speech Recognition Engineer at Dialpad (class-based language modelling; on-the-fly domain adaptation; Python, some C++)
- Research Assistant at the SFU Discourse Processing Lab (topic modelling, toxicity and constructiveness in online comments; corpus linguistics; evaluating gender bias through NLP; Python, some R)
- Software Engineering Intern at GE Digital (full-stack with a focus on backend engineering; XLST, some Java)
- Research Assistant at the SFU Phonological Processing Lab (experimental phonology using eye-tracking; SR Research Experiment Builder, MATLAB)