Hi there!

I'm a computational linguist at Northwestern, where I direct the Linguistic Mechanisms Lab.

I'm interested in natural language processing, social meaning, sociophonetics and interactional variation, Chinese and Japanese linguistics, gesture and embodiment, and applications of linguistic research to social good. I'm particularly interested in using computational methods to understand the linguistic mechanisms of social problems in domains like policing, gun violence, immigration, and mental health.

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope to see you around!


---Rob

Rob Voigt

robvoigt(at)northwestern.edu

Assistant Professor of Linguistics
and Computer Science (by courtesy)
Northwestern University

Affiliations:
Institute for Policy Research
Cognitive Science Program



Current courses:

Winter 2025 LING 331 - Text Processing for Linguists



Publications

Forthcoming
2024
2023
2022
2021



Transparency and Accountability

Pay Transparency

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Accountability

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