Summer Chambers
Summer Chambers
Graduate Research Assistant
Computational Linguistics, Automated Speech Recognition, Language Documentation/Revitalization, Phonetics, Sociolinguistics (Gender and Neurodiversity)
Summer is a PhD student and Presidential Scholar in the GMU Linguistics program. With a background in data science, her research interests lie at the intersections of linguistics and computational methods. Summer is currently involved in research on bias in AI-detection tools against content written by autistic and L2-English authors. She also focuses on community-centered speech technologies for low-resource and indigenous languages and has worked on automated speech recognition and forced alignment models for Akuzipik, an Alaska Native language.
Selected Publications
Chambers, S., Woodrose Schwartz, S., Kelley, M., & Woodrose Schwartz, L. (2026). Addressing Domain Mismatch in ASR for Akuzipik Language Documentation. In G. Agyapong, S. Moeller, A. Arppe, A. Marashian, & D. Rosenblum (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-9) (pp. 93–103). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2026.computel-1.10/
Chambers, S., Kelley, M.C. (2025). The Misclassification of Autistic Writing as AI-Generated. In: Cristea, A.I., Walker, E., Lu, Y., Santos, O.C., Isotani, S. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 15879. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98420-4_7
Chambers, S., Shikur, K. M., & Morris, S. (2021). Information Retrieval Techniques for Automated Policy Review. 2021 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS52267.2021.9483780
Grants and Fellowships
Presidential Scholarship, George Mason University (2023-2027)
Education
PhD Student, Linguistics, George Mason University (2023-present)
MS, Data Science, University of Virginia (2020-2021)
MA, Linguistics, University of Virginia (2019-2020)
BA, Linguistics; Spanish, University of Virginia (2016-2019)