Sara Court
Contact Information
Doctoral Student
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Advisor: Micha Elsner
My research interests lie at the intersection of computational modeling, morphological typology, and low-resource machine learning.
I'm committed to collaborative, ethical, and responsible AI development, particularly for underrepresented and minoritized language varieties. I'm thinking a lot these days about how we can leverage LLMs and other generative AI models to shift old paradigms and make the development of language technologies more equitable and accessible.
I specialize in morphological typology and low-resource languages in contact, which is to say, I strive to build models that can interface with a wide range of linguistic structures as they're actually used in real life -- with all the messiness, complexity, and rich variability that make them so beautifully human!
Current Projects:
- AI/ML for Collaborative Language Technology Development
- Responsibly adapting LLMs in low-resource domains
- Science outreach and AI Literacy: "LLMs in the Real World" (preprint)
- Computational Modeling of the Maltese Lexicon
- Information theoretic analysis of Maltese morphology in contact
- Multi-agent RAG pipeline for low-resource Machine Translation (MT)
Past Projects:
- CogSciDIY language science outreach for high school students
- Active learning methods for lexical and morphological annotation
- Countability and classifiers in Taiwanese Hokkien
- Quantitative analysis of Mandarin morphology
Presentations:
- Responsible Applications of LLMs for Low-Resource Translation - University of Malta - 03/26/25
- AI Basics for High Schoolers - COSI Language Pod - 02/20/25
- Women in AI & Tech - Center for Healthy Families - 05/15/24
Publications:
Links to all publications are available via my Google Scholar page.