PhD in Linguistics

Ellie Liebl

Computational Linguistics for Low Resource Languages

I specialize in the application of computational methods to language documentation, with a focus on endangered and under-resourced languages. My research explores how digital tools can enhance the documentation and analysis of linguistic data in resource-limited contexts. My current projects include work on Kulung (Kiranti, Tibeto-Burman) and Akuzipik (St. Lawrence Island Yupik), incorporating automatic transcription, annotation, and machine translation into documentation pipelines.

Selected Publications

J. Elizabeth Liebl, Summer Chambers, Matthew Kelley, and Géraldine Walther. 2026. Aspects of Selecting the Right ASR Training Languages for Under-Resourced Languages. In Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-9), pages 148–156, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics. Link.

Expanded Publication List

Poorvi Acharya, J. Elizabeth Liebl, Dhiman Goswami, Kai North, Marcos Zampieri, and Antonios Anastasopoulos. 2025. Tracing L1 Interference in English Learner Writing: A Longitudinal Corpus with Error Annotations. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 15146–15167, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics. Link.

Stan Galloway and J. Elizabeth Liebl (eds.) 2019. We Are Residents Here: Poems from the Bridgewater International Poetry Festival 2018. Unbound Content, LLC. Link.

Stan Galloway and J. Elizabeth Liebl (eds.) 2018. What Lies Beyond the Frame: Poems from the Bridgewater International Poetry Festival 2017. Unbound Content, LLC. Link.

Education

2025 - M.A., English: Linguistics: George Mason University

2020 - B.A., English Language and Literature: Bridgewater College