Roles and responsibilities
I am a Research Officer in the Text Analytics group. I work on a variety of projects with collaborators within NRC as well as at Canadian and international institutions, focusing on using computer algorithms to analyze and understand language.
Current research and/or projects
Current areas of interest include:
- NLP and social science, particularly linguistic expressions of bias and stereotyping
- Automated detection of hate speech and other forms abusive language
- Ethical issues in AI and NLP, such as explainability and fairness
- Multimodal analysis of language and eye movements
- Automated detection and monitoring of cognitive decline from language
- AI applications to improve accessibility of higher education
- Text to image models and computational creativity
Research and/or project statements
I am broadly interested in applications of natural language processing for social good, through inter-disciplinary collaborations with experts in healthcare, psychology, education, and social science.
Education
- Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Toronto, 2016
- M.Sc. Computer Science, Dalhousie University, 2011
- B.Sc. (Hons.) Physics, St. Francis Xavier University, 2007
Affiliations
Adjunct Research Professor, School of Computer Science, Carleton University
Kathleen Fraser
Associate Research Officer
Digital Technologies
1200 Montreal Road
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6
Preferred language: English
Telephone: 613-993-0603
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Expertise
Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Machine Learning, Natural language processing, Text Analytics, Text Processing, Computer science, Computational linguistics, Data Science, Data and Text Mining