Ben Newman
Hello! I'm Ben Newman, currently a Computer Science MS student at Stanford working with the Stanford NLP group. I'm interested in understanding how NLP systems learn and process human language and the role language technologies can play in society more broadly.
I've worked on projects analyzing models' abilities to extrapolate, process syntax, and communicate. I've also thought about how language technologies can usefully augment human language abilities, both for scientific discovery (e.g. testing psycholinguistic hypotheses) and in political science (e.g. countering minsinformation). I've been a course assistant for CS124, Stanford's introductory NLP class, and have co-taught courses in Introductory Linguistics and Computing Fundamentals at Stanford's Splash.