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Andrew Ryan

Computational Linguist

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About Me

Lover of computational linguistics, natural language processing, tea, fountain pens, and classical guitar.

Experience

Robert Henderson Language Media Center - University of Pittsburgh

Student IT Assistant

  • Provide programming services for linguistic projects
  • Enforce compliance with lab policies
  • Assist visitors at the front desk
  • Open and close the center
  • M*Modal

    Linguistics Intern - 120 working hours

  • Internship Learning Agreement
  • Internship Presentation
  • Annotated medical documents for constituency and named entity recognition
  • Contributed data to a machine learning program
  • Recieved HIPAA training
  • Education

    University of Pittsburgh

    Fall 2014 - Spring 2018

    B.A. in Linguistics

    Minors in Computer Science and Korean

    Projects

    Twitch Sentiment Analysis

    A data science project analyzing the sentiment of comments collected from the live streaming website Twitch. The self-made corpus contains 5,000,000 comments collected from 200 videos of a long running Twitch stream. It looks at the relationship between the sentiment of the comments in the chat with statistics such as viewership, cast members, and games played.

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    Language Media Center Reservation System

    Updated company's booking system to work with more secure authentication. Set up scripts to send out reminder emails to clients with upcoming appointments or equipment past due.

    Language Media Center Kiosk

    An AppleScript which turns a Mac into a kiosk by forcing a browser to stay open in fullscreen, restricting a user to stay on a specified domain, and refreshing back to the homepage after a specified period of time.

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    Coded Language Timelime

    A website with an interactive timeline which goes through how people have coded their language throughout history.

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