Education
2021: Ph.D., Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz. Dissertation title: Extraction From Relative Clauses: An Experimental Investigation into Variable Island Effects in English—or—This Is a Dissertation That We Really Needed to Find Someone Who’d Write. Dissertation advisor: Matt Wagers
2017: M.A., Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz. Thesis title: D-Raising in Chamorro Relative Clauses and Other A′ Constructions. Thesis advisor: Sandra Chung.
2015: B.A., Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz. Graduated Summa Cum Laude with additional Honors in Linguistics.
Positions Held
2022-current: Language Engineer II, Amazon Transcribe (Contact Lens), AiData team, AI Labs, Amazon Web Services.
2021-2022: Language Engineer (contract), Amazon Lex (NLU pod), AiData team, AI Labs, Amazon Web Services.
2021-2022: Lecturer in Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz.
Publications
Tang, Liyan, Igor Shalyminov, Amy Ming-Wei Wong, Jon Burnsky, Jake W. Vincent, Yu’an Yang, Siffi Singh, Song Feng, Hwanjun Song, Hang Su, Justin Sun, Yi Zhang, Saab Mansour, and Kathleen McKeown. 2023. TofuEval: Evaluating Factual Consistency of Topic-Focused Dialogue Summarization. University of Texas at Austin and AWS AI Labs. NAACL 2024 Conference Submission. (paper)
Vincent, Jake W., Ivy Sichel, and Matthew W. Wagers. 2022. Extraction from English RCs and Cross-Linguistic Similarities in the Environments That Facilitate Extraction. Languages 7: 117. (paper)
Community Engagement
2024: Humanists in Tech Alumni Panel, The Humanities Institute, UC Santa Cruz. Humanizing Technology Project. March 6. (flyer)
Awards and Honors
2020: Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Graduate Division and Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz. For 2019–2020 school year.
2015: Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.
2015: Chancellor’s Award, UC Santa Cruz. (Also entails Dean’s Award.) Project title: Rhyme in the Chamorro language poetry of Joaquin Flores Borja (And what it tells us about poetry and language).
2015: Humanities Undergraduate Research Award (HUGRA), Institute for Humanities Research, UC Santa Cruz. Bertha N. Melkonian Prize.
Grants and Fellowships
2015–2016: Regents Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz.
Conference Activity
Invited talks
2020: Explaining variation in the acceptability of relative clause island violations. Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC), UC Santa Cruz, February 29. (handout)
Papers presented
2019: Relative clause subextraction in English. 3rd meeting of the California Annual Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP), UCSC, Santa Cruz, California, October 26-27. (abstract | poster)
2018: Sentential negation and negative concord licensing in Chamorro. 25th meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, May 10–12. (contact for handout)
2018: Stranding in Chamorro internally headed relative clauses. 36th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), UCLA, Los Angeles, California, April 20–22. (abstract | poster)
2017: Circumnominal relative clauses in Chamorro. 24th meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA), University of Washington, April 7–9. (abstract | handout)
Departmental Talks
2019: Computation via Hummingbird: Why and how to use the UCSC Hummingbird Computational Cluster. s/lab, UC Santa Cruz, April 8. (slides | other materials)
2019: Acceptable extraction from relative clauses in English. s/lab, UC Santa Cruz, January 25. (slides)
2018: Extraction from Complex NP islands: An experimental perspective. Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC), UC Santa Cruz, March 10. (abstract | poster)
2018: Extraction from indefinites: Not inherently better than extraction from definites? s/lab, UC Santa Cruz, February 22. (contact for slides)
2018: D-raising in Chamorro relative clauses (and beyond). S-Circle, UC Santa Cruz, January 12. (handout)
2017: Phonological lowering in Chamorro circumnominal relative clauses. Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC), UC Santa Cruz, March 18.
2015: A special type of relative clause in Chamorro. Poster presentation, Humanities Spring Awards Event, UC Santa Cruz, June.
2015: Internally headed relative clauses in Chamorro. Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC), UC Santa Cruz, May.
Teaching
At UC Santa Cruz as primary instructor
Semantics 1, UC Santa Cruz (Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022). Asynchronous instruction. Email for syllabus.
Syntactic Structures, UC Santa Cruz (Spring 2020). Hybrid synchronous–asynchronous instruction. Email for syllabus.
Pedagogy of Linguistics (TA Training), UC Santa Cruz (Fall 2018–Winter 2019). Supervisor: Matt Wagers. (syllabus)
At UC Santa Cruz as teaching assistant
2021: Invented Languages, UC Santa Cruz, Spring quarter. Instructor: Pranav Anand.
2020: Semantics 1, UC Santa Cruz, Summer session 1. Instructor: Adrian Brasoveanu.
2020: Syntactic Structures, UC Santa Cruz, Winter quarter. Instructor: Matt Wagers.
2019: Language & Social Identity, UC Santa Cruz, Fall quarter. Instructor: Jed Pizarro-Guevara.
2019: Semantics 1, UC Santa Cruz, Summer session 1. Instructor: Adrian Brasoveanu.
2019: Phonology 1, UC Santa Cruz, Spring quarter. Instructor: Maho Morimoto.
2018: Syntax 1, UC Santa Cruz, Fall quarter. Instructor: Jorge Hankamer.
2018: Semantics 1, UC Santa Cruz, Summer session 2. Instructor: Hitomi Hirayama.
2018: Syntax 2, UC Santa Cruz, Spring quarter. Instructor: Jorge Hankamer.
2018: Introduction to Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz, Winter quarter. Instructor: Ryan Bennett.
2017: Semantics 1, UC Santa Cruz, Fall quarter. Instructor: Donka Farkas.
2017: Semantics 1, UC Santa Cruz, Summer session 2. Instructor: Adrian Brasoveanu.
2017: Phonology 1, UC Santa Cruz, Winter quarter. Instructor: Brian Smith.
2016: Syntax 1, UC Santa Cruz, Fall quarter. Instructor: Jorge Hankamer.
Research Experience
2017: Graduate student researcher, UC Santa Cruz. Helped organize and develop materials for language-learning activities in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec (SLZ) and San Martín Peras Mixtec (SMPM) for the inaugural Nido de Lenguas. June–September. Supervisors: Maziar Toosarvandani and Pranav Anand.
2017: Graduate student researcher, UC Santa Cruz. Identified borrowings and confirmed previously-identified borrowings from Spanish, Japanese, and English into Chamorro and supervised two undergraduate research assistants. March–June. Supervisor: Sandra Chung.
2016: Graduate student researcher, UC Santa Cruz. Facilitated and supervised annotation of recordings generated in a linguistic elicitation experiment in Chamorro. March–September. Supervisors: Matt Wagers and Sandra Chung.
2015: Research Experiences for Undergraduates Fellow, Chamorro Psycholinguistics Project (BCS #1251429). Developed an independent project on relative clauses in Chamorro. 2014–2015 school year. Supervisors: Sandra Chung and Matt Wagers.
Departmental Service
Organizational assistance for California Annual Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP), held at UC Santa Cruz October 26–27, 2019.
Organizational assistance for Pronouns in Competition Workshop, held at UC Santa Cruz April 27–28, 2018.
Graduate Representative, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz, January–December, 2018.
Events committee, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz, 2016–2017 school year.
Languages
English (native)
Spanish (reading)
Chamorro (fieldwork)
Santiago Laxopa Zapotec (fieldwork)
Professional Memberships
Linguistic Society of America
Computer Skills
Programming/scripting: Python, R, Lua, Bash/Zsh
Web: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Liquid/Jinja templating,
Document preparation: LaTeX
Remote and cloud computation: AWS, SSH & SFTP, HPC clusters
Version control: Git