A professor of Linguistics and Computer Science, and chair of the Linguistics. She is the author of A Resource-light Approach to Morpho-syntactic Tagging (Brill). Her most recent projects deal with the computational processing of figurative language and Internet censorship. She is a recipient of nine NSF awards. She is a co-organizer of the annual workshop on NLP4IF: Natural Language Processing for Internet Freedom — Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda (http://www.netcopia.net/nlp4if/) and a series of workshops on figurative language processing (https://sites.google.com/view/figlang2022).