Senior thesis spotlight: Devising an LLM challenge combined her passions for computer science and linguistics (opens in new tab)

For her interdisciplinary thesis, Nora Graves compared two automated approaches for adding accent marks to text in the Yorùbá language, testing an LLM against a statistical method. Her advisers: Laura Kalin, associate director of the Program in Linguistics, and Christiane Fellbaum. who helped develop the seminal AI project WordNet.