Hello! My name’s Shane and this is my corner of the web.
Professionally, I’m an Associate Professor in the Linguistics department at the University of Washington, where I work at the intersection of computational linguistics, natural language processing, and cognitive science. At UW, I run CLMBR: the Computation, Language and Meaning Band of Researchers. You can find out more about my research by browing the lab website or my CV. You can find more information about my teaching at teaching.shane.st.
In my non-professional life, I’m passionate about the outdoors—especially rock climbing, (backcountry) skiing, and bicycling—as well as food, design, and urbanism.
Miscellaneous Resources #
- Montreean: a small stochastic web app for visualizing parse trees of the kind you might find in introduction to linguistics in the style of Mondrian paintings.
- ULTK: the Unnatural Language Toolkit (ULTK) is a Python library used in my group’s research
- edugrad: edugrad is a minimal, pedagogically-focused (built for my own teaching needs!), reimplementation of the PyTorch API for building and training neural networks
- NASSLLI 2025: in June 2025, I had the honor and privilege of hosting the North American Summer School for Logic, Language and Information (NASSLLI).
Recent Blog Posts #
The Language of Food by Dan Jurafsky
Tags: book-reviews, food, linguistics, etymology
Grade: B+
Proto by Laura Spinney
Tags: book-reviews, linguistics, protolanguage, human-history
Grade: B+
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Tags: book-reviews, novel, psychological-thriller
Grade: B-
64 more posts can be found in the archive.