Emma S. Manning

Computational Linguist

personal note

I created this website as a grad student, because itā€™s normal in academia to have one. Once I moved to industry in 2021, it became less relevant, and some parts of the site have not been updated since then. Maybe Iā€™ll do it someday.

In January 2025, I finally decided to delete my old and rarely-used Facebook and Twitter accounts. My big concern in doing so is that old friends I was in contact with only through those sites (Facebook in particular) may no longer know how to find me. If youā€™re such a person and you searched for me and found this site, hello! My contact info provided below should be reasonably up to date; please reach out by email or one of the other options, and if appropriate I can then give you more options to contact me.

more professional stuff

Iā€™m a Computational Linguist, passionate about data annotation and evaluation methods. Iā€™m currently working as a Research Scientist doing ā€œResponsible AIā€ evaluation for a tech company that youā€™ve heard of, but that I canā€™t name publicly because I work for them via a vendor company. Before that, from 2021-2023, I worked as a Linguist at Google.

I got a PhD in Computational Linguistics at Georgetown University in 2021. Nathan Schneider was my advisor, and I was a member of NERT and GUCL.

referring to me

My name is Emma for professional purposes, including on publications. I pronounce my name /ĖˆÉ›mə ĖˆmƦnÉŖŋ/. Iā€™m perfectly happy to be called Emma informally as well; some people also know me by nicknames like Ember of Epsilon.

When referring to me with third-person pronouns in English, please use either he/him or they/them. If youā€™re talking about me in a language other than English that marks gender grammatically, any non-feminine forms are fine.

news

Jan 11, 2025 Another round of very belated updates! I guess for completion this should say that since April 2024 Iā€™ve been a Research Scientist at Grid Dynamics.
Aug 7, 2023 Iā€™m back on the job market. Let me know if you have any good leads!
Aug 21, 2022 Doing some very belated website-updating! Major updates since last news item: graduated in December 2021, moved to the NYC area in May 2022.
Oct 25, 2021 I started as a Linguist at Google!
Sep 21, 2021 Our paper, Underreporting of errors in NLG output, and what to do about it, received a Commendation for Outstanding Position Paper at INLG 2021