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Grace Lawley

Computer Science & Engineering PhD Student

Oregon Health & Science University

Hi! I am a PhD student in the Computer Science & Engineering program at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon, USA.

My interests include computational linguistics, speech & language disorders, houseplants, and Rachmaninoff. My research involves developing computational methods to detect and quantify atypical word use in the language of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Interests

  • Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing
  • Speech & Language Disorders
  • Discrete Math, Statistics
  • Data Science, Data Visualization
  • R, Python

Education

  • Phd in Computer Science & Engineering, Expected June 2022

    Oregon Health & Science University

  • BA in Mathematics, 2017

    Lewis & Clark College

Talks

Investigation on Examiner "Um" and "Uh" Usage in ADOS-2 Sessions

May 3, 2021 2:00 PM — 3:00 PM Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon
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Towards an automated method for quantifying pedantic language in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Jun 12, 2020 1:00 PM — 2:30 PM Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon
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Pedantic Speech in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Difficulties with language is one of the core characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Clinicians have described a …
May 14, 2019 11:45 AM — 1:00 PM Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon - GH47
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Math Meets Data

Figuring out how to put theory into practice is not always straightforward. Real world data, especially natural language data, can put …
Apr 4, 2019 3:30 PM — 4:30 PM Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon - JR Howard 259
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A Sentiment Analysis of Child Language Acquisition Data

Join us for a night of four talks from students in OHSU’s Principles and Practice of Data Visualization, taught by Alison Hill, …
Aug 14, 2018 6:00 PM — 8:00 PM Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
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Publications

Grace Lawley, Steven Bedrick, Jill Dolata, Eric Fombonne (2021). Investigation on Examiner 'Um' and 'Uh' Usage in ADOS-2 Sessions. In INSAR 2021.

Poster Source Document

Alexandra Salem, Heather MacFarlane, Joel Adams, Grace Lawley, Jill Dolata, Steven Bedrick, Eric Fombonne (2021). Evaluating Atypical Language in Autism Using Automated Discourse Measures. In INSAR 2021.

Poster Source Document

Alexandra Salem, Heather MacFarlane, Joel Adams, Grace Lawley, Jill Dolata, Steven Bedricks, Eric Fombonne (2021). Evaluating Atypical Language in Autism Using Automated Language Measures (in press). Scientific Reports.

Alexandra Salem, Heather MacFarlane, Jill Dolata, Grace Lawley, Eric Fombonne (2020). Using MLU to Evaluate the Reliability of ADOS Transcription. In INSAR 2020.

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Recent Posts

Multidimensional Scaling with Food Emoji 🥘🦐🦑

What is Multidimensional Scaling? Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) is a dimensionality reduction technique that is useful for exploratory …
Last updated on Feb 8, 2020 8 min read

Kuczaj Corpus Sentiment Analysis, pt 2

A continuation of a sentiment analysis of child language acquisition data using the Kuczaj Corpus from the CHILDES database.
Last updated on Feb 8, 2020 6 min read

Kuczaj Corpus Sentiment Analysis, pt 1

A sentiment analysis of child language acquisition data using the Kuczaj Corpus from the CHILDES database that I did for my final …
Last updated on Feb 8, 2020 10 min read

Projects

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Kuczaj Corpus Sentiment Analysis

Final project for CS 631 ‘Principles & Practice of Data Visualization’

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