Research Interests
I’m primarily interested in studying semantics and syntax using computational and/or descriptive methods. I focus primarily on Bantu languages, but have also done a bit of work on Paraguayan Guaraní. I’ve conducted two fieldwork trips in Kribi, Cameroon on Bapuku (A32b), a variety of Batanga.
Publications
Vulić, I., Baker, S., Ponti, E. M., Petti, U., Leviant, I., Wing, K., Majewska, O., Bar, E., Malone, M., Poibeau, T., Reichard, R. & Korhonen, A. (2020). Multi-SimLex: A large-scale evaluation of multilingual and crosslingual lexical semantic similarity. Computational Linguistics, 46(4), 847-897.
Talks
(upcoming) 2026. Effects and Causes: On the Semantic Coherence of Swahili Noun Classes. Penn Linguistics Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
2026. Effects and Causes: On the Semantic Coherence of Swahili Noun Classes. Linguistics Society of America, New Orleans, LA.
2025. Inactive Versatility: A Fieldwork-Driven Account of Fluid Categories in Paraguayan Guaraní. Effects of grammatical system on the lexicon, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico.
2025. Introduction to Computational Linguistics. Guest lecturer at Language 001, New York University, New York, NY.
2024. Using Word Embeddings to Analyze the Semantics of Swahili Noun Classes. SYNC (Stony Brook, Yale, NYU, CUNY) Conference, New York, NY.
2024. Native American New York by the Numbers: Digging into Census Language Data. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, New York, NY.