Will Gantt

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About

I'm a PhD student in natural language processing (NLP) at the University of Rochester, advised by Aaron White. My research interests lie primarily in document-level information extraction (IE) and event understanding. Some recent projects in these areas include:

I have also done some work more within linguistics proper. Along these lines, I have investigated lexically-triggered belief and desire inferences with Aaron White and Ben Kane, looking at how these inferences pattern with other types of inference (veridicality, factivity, and negation-raising) and with syntactic distribution. You can see our work here.

Outside of academic life, I try to run, read widely, and condition good reflexes into my neurotic dog Remi (h/t great-granddad). I am also involved in the Effective Altruism community.

Previously, I received a bachelor's degree in computer science from Bowdoin College, where I was advised by Stephen Majercik and Clare Bates Congdon. Following, I worked as a software engineer at Okta in San Francisco.

Contact

I am best reached via email: wgantt.iv@gmail.com