My name is Meryem M'hamdi. I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science and a research assistant at Information Sciences Institute (ISI) in University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles.
I work in Natural Language Processing Group under the supervision of Prof. Jonathan May . My main research interest is to adapt cross-lingual unsupervised approaches to different downstream applications including event extraction, dependency parsing and studying their probing capabilities at large. My aim is to devise novel approaches for learning and tuning universal multilingual representations to different domains of applications and studying their generalization especially in resource setting, zero/few shot learning scenarios while being evaluated with different flavours of transfer learning.
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