Nolan Pozzobon

Student, Programmer, Wrestler, Musician

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About

I am Nolan Pozzobon

About Me

I'm a third year undergraduate student-athlete at the University of Chicago. I am broadly intersted in Natural Langauge Processing and its application to translation and search. My current research with Dr. Sun(TTIC) is on expanding embeddings into a multi-lingual slang space.

On a personal level, I enjoy learning languages, reading, playing music, wrestling, and cooking. Check out my Goodreads or give my band (from years ago) a listen!

Portfolio
About Projects

Most of my projects are geared towards working with LLMs on different levels.

Currently, I am a visiting student researcher at the Speech and Language group at TTIC working with Dr. Zhewei Sun. The description of our research can be found below.

All repositories can be found on my Github, linked below.

Current and Past Projects and Research

Research with Dr. Zhewei Sun(TTIC)

My current research focuses on developing NLP techniques to better process and model informal language across languages

We are collecting slang datasets and using state-of-the-art sentence embedding techniques to enhance automatic processing of slang across a variety of languages.

Language Learning App

This app uses a fine-tuned GPT-4o model and a Spaced-Repition-System algorithm to hack the brain to best remember vocabulary.

The GPT model has been fine tuned to produce text in a number of registers, from academic to conversational.

Currently I am working on making the app more presentable, capable of handling multiple users, and producing stranger sentences(to maximize retention)

It is currently backseated due to the ongoing research, but my progress is linked below!

Conlangs

Here is my most recent conlang(constructed language). My goal, in summary, was to blend Mandarin and Chinese grammar along with some other concepts I wanted to explore, such as tri-partite alignment

I experimented with forcing verb-object or verb-tense pairs in a way inspired by Mandarin, though with a heavy tense system in addition to a particle system

I am currently working on a word generator that creates well-formed words/sentences out of the set of rules provided. All will be linked once polished up!

Contact

Let's Talk

Send an email to nolanpozzobon[at]uchicago.edu or connect on LinkedIn(link everywhere)