Benjamin LeBrun

About

I’m currently a Master’s student in Linguistics at McGill University and Mila supervised by Tim O’Donnell. I am generally interested in computational cognitive science and probabilistic generative models. I work on computational approaches to language grounding, with a particular interest in computational pragmatics.

I recently completed an internship at Mila, and graduated in Computer Science and Linguistics at McGill. During that time, I worked at MCQLL, the Montreal Computational and Quantitative Linguistics Lab, where I studied whether neural language models accurately approximate rare sentences. I was also a research assistant at txtLab, a laboratory for cultural analytics, where I used computational models to study corporate acquisition in local news and playlist curation on Spotify.

You can find a list of my publications on my Google Scholar page.