Language Understanding
Advancing models for semantics, pragmatics, inference, and reasoning across domains.
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr NLP
Natural Language Processing Research at Bryn Mawr College
We study how language technologies understand, generate, and reason with human language—and how those systems shape the world around us.
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Language.
Technology.
Understanding.
The Bryn Mawr NLP Lab conducts research at the intersection of language and computation. We explore foundational questions in natural language processing, develop new evaluation methods, and apply NLP to problems that matter in society.
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What We Work On
Model Evaluation
Designing rigorous benchmarks and analyses for robustness, faithfulness, and reasoning.
NLP for Social Science
Applying NLP to questions in public health, law, online communities, and society.
Responsible NLP
Studying bias, reliability, transparency, and the real-world impact of language technologies.
Featured publication
Same Meaning, Different Wording: Evaluating Paraphrase Robustness in Financial Natural Language Inference
Yike Li and Adam Poliak
Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing · 2026