Ted Pedersen - Current Research Opportunities
I am always interested in working with undergraduate or graduate students
on research projects.
I am especially interested in carrying out research on the social impacts of
Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. This leads to research questions that explore
the possible harms of different kinds of language technology, and the historical trends and ethical
foundations (or lack thereof) that lead to the decisions to develop and use these kinds of technologies.
Work that I particularly admire that is related to these interests includes the following :
- The Markup,
Show Your Work, ongoing
- Michelle Alexander,
The New Jim Crow, The New Press 2010
- Simone Brown,
Dark Matters, Duke Univ Press 2015
- Cathy O'Neil
Weapons of Math Destruction, Crown 2017
- Safiya Noble,
Algorithms of Oppression, NYU Press 2018
- Ruha Benjamin,
Race After Technology, Polity 2019
- Meredith Broussard,
More Than A Glitch, MIT Press 2023
Of course this is not meant to be an exhaustive list, but is intended
to provide starting points for research that resonates with me and
that I find especially motivating and inspiring. Please review at least
one of the above and if you share my enthusiasm and think you might like
pursue such ideas in
a UROP,
Independent Study Project,
or MS thesis under my direction, then please
be in touch via email.
I am also interested in supervising UROP or MS students who
would like to participate in a SemEval task. This is an annual friendly competition
in Natural Language Processing which starts in September and lasts
until April. You can find out more about SemEval
here.
You can also find papers we
have done based on SemEval participation
here - just search for SemEval in the title. If you are interested in participating in
an upcoming task then please feel free to be in touch via email.
Finally, we do not have a PhD program, and I do not have any funding to offer to graduate
students. That said, many of our MS students are supported as Teaching Assistants. Please
see
here for more information about how to apply to our MS program.
May 21, 2024
By:
Ted Pedersen
- tpederse AT d umn edu