Contact Information
Foreign Languages Building (M/C 168)
Room 4019
707 S. Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
Machine translation
Computational linguistics
Endangered languages
Programming languages
Compilers
Education
Ph.D, University of Minnesota
M.Phil, University of Cambridge
B.A., Luther College
Courses Taught
LING 402
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Assistant Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
External Links
Recent Publications
Jin, L., Doshi-Velez, F., Miller, T., Schuler, W., & Schwartz, L. (2020). Depth-bounding is effective: Improvements and evaluation of unsupervised PCFG induction. In E. Riloff, D. Chiang, J. Hockenmaier, & J. Tsujii (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2018 (pp. 2721-2731). (Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2018). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Jin, L., Doshi-Velez, F., Miller, T., Schuler, W., & Schwartz, L. (2020). Unsupervised learning of PCFGs with normalizing flow. In ACL 2019 - 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (pp. 2442-2452). (ACL 2019 - 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Chen, E., & Schwartz, L. (2019). A morphological analyzer for St. Lawrence Island / Central Siberian Yupik. In H. Isahara, B. Maegaard, S. Piperidis, C. Cieri, T. Declerck, K. Hasida, H. Mazo, K. Choukri, S. Goggi, J. Mariani, A. Moreno, N. Calzolari, J. Odijk, & T. Tokunaga (Eds.), LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (pp. 2623-2630). (LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation). European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
Hunt, B., Chen, E., Schreiner, S. L. R., & Schwartz, L. (2019). Community lexical access for an endangered polysynthetic language: An electronic dictionary for St. Lawrence Island Yupik. In NAACL HLT 2019 - 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session (pp. 122-126). (NAACL HLT 2019 - 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Schwartz, L. (2018). The history and promise of machine translation. In American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series (Vol. 18, pp. 161-190). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/ata.18.08sch