Ryan Cotterell
Regular biography
Ryan Cotterell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. His research focuses on natural language processing, computational linguistics, and machine learning. His work explores the intersection of these fields to advance understanding and development of language technologies. Prof. Cotterell's academic profile can be accessed through the ETH Zurich website.
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Ryan Cotterell is a researcher at ETH Zürich with a focus on language, learning, and information. His work explores the intersection of natural language processing, linguistics, and computational learning, with an emphasis on mitigating biases in language models, improving morphological processing, and understanding the cognitive mechanisms underlying language acquisition. His research includes developing methods for counterfactual data augmentation, analyzing gender bias in word embeddings, and exploring the role of information density in language. Cotterell has contributed to major shared tasks in morphological reinflection and has published extensively on the theoretical and practical aspects of language learning and information processing.