Jennifer Cornish Email & Phone Number

Berkeley, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, United States

* Run a team of 38 full-time language auditors from the ground up to handle expanding demand for non-English data labelling and annotation projects* Manage vertical analytics, data sampling, and quality control processes for up to 40 weekly customer projects* Reduced the SLA from one week to 24hrs* Coordinate a team of over 200 remote freelance quality-control auditors* Work with internal stakeholders to hone quality and project guidelines for internal and customer projects.

Berkeley Ca

* Data annotation/labeling processes, linguistic analysis, and error analysis for various language products for the NLP/AI sphere* Editing manuscripts for submission to scholarly journals and conference proceedings* Assisted clients with research design, data analysis, phonetic analysis, and IPA transcription

Mills College, Oakland

Taught Introduction to Linguistics LING:1150.

* Worked with NLP research and product teams on research tasks for grammatical error correction, style/tone correction, sentiment analysis, summarization, register analysis, sensitivity detection, and error categorization* Edited/annotated data and provided data QC support for multiple projects daily* Created/edited annotation guidelines, taxonomies* Summarized/analyzed annotator performance* Performed error analysis and data exploration for product development* Evaluated ML model performance and identified areas for improvement

* Analyzed machine-generated language output for NLP software product offerings with fast turn around* Developed guidelines for QA

Berkeley Ca

* Managed the coordination of 5 sponsored groups supporting a diverse group of families and students. * Managed an 8-member executive board. * Oversaw fundraising of roughly $150K to support teachers, staff, after-school enrichment, after-school tutoring, and school programs. * Oversaw school-wide fundraising, community events, volunteers, and vendors. Successes:* Increased Inclusivity of programming and membership to better reflect the diversity of the school population. * Increased transparency in organizational operations and policy decisions to foster community building. * Brought equity concerns to the forefront in planning events, programming, and policy decisions. * Oversaw the organization of academic and community-wide events.

Brock University (St. Catherines, On, Canada)

Clinical Phonetics

University At Buffalo, Suny, Buffalo, Ny

* Involved in all aspects of research into communication-device-mediated interactions with augmented and alternative communication (AAC).* Developed video annotation frameworks, behavioral analytic frameworks and novel experimental and analytic methods for the study of multi-modal video interactions.* Developed theoretical frameworks for conversation analysis; annotation guidelines, novel metrics, and analytical categories for the linguistic and behavioral analysis of multi-modal video conversations; novel communication frames and conversation design for use in frame-based communication devices via the qualitative analysis of conversational data* Managed and trained experimenters in experimental methods, data analyses, transcription, and behavioral coding * Authored and maintained procedural documentation for in-house analytical tools

Speech Research Lab, Dept Of Psychology, University At Buffalo, Amherst, Ny

* Designed, implemented, and oversaw speech-perception and cross-linguistic acoustic research. * Created synthetic stimuli for perception studies with the Sensyn/Klatt speech synthesizer * Recruited and evaluated language informants and experimental participants * Created scripts with Praat’s Python-like scripting language to automate data extraction from natural speech recordings* Data analysis

Department Of Linguistics, University At Buffalo, Suny

Language, Society, and the IndividualIntro. To Linguistic AnalysisThe Sound System of EnglishIntro. To Linguistic AnalysisPhonetics

Department Of Communication Disorders And Sciences, University At Buffalo, Suny

Phonetics

Ph.D., Linguistics, Cognitive Science

Activities and Societies: Graduate Linguistics Association, Linguistics Society of America, Acoustical Society of AmericaMy dissertation.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Linguistics

My Master's Thesis, entitled "The Role of Pitch in Verner's Law", examined the roles that fundamental frequency, vowel duration.

B.A., Psychology

Activities and Societies: Sigma Xi