Michael Ginn

I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado in the LECS Lab, supervised by Prof. Alexis Palmer and Prof. Mans Hulden. I am in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Cognitive Science.

I study computational linguistics and natural language processing. My research involves low-resource and endangered languages, morphology and tokenization, and the relationships between linguistics and language technology. In particular, I am interested in exploring the ways modern NLP techniques such as large language models (LLMs) can best aid underresourced languages. I obtained my bachelor’s in Computer Science, with a second major in Linguistics, from Washington University in St. Louis in 2022.

I’ve worked in software development as a four-time intern at Apple working on localization software engineering, machine learning, and large language models. I’ve worked as a student researcher at xMentium where I am exploring large language models and domain adaptation for legal texts. I’ve built several apps as a an independent iOS and macOS developer and working as a student software engineer at Magnify Your Voice.

I study a wide variety of languages, with a particular focus on expanding NLP to languages that are often overlooked. I have 8+ years of Latin experience and am currently learning American Sign Language. My work has involved several indigineous American languages, such as Uspanteko and Arapaho.