Hello! I am Rebecca, and I am currently a Research Associate at the CYENS Centre of Excellence, where I am leading efforts to develop language technologies for Cypriot Greek. Previously, I was a Google DeepMind Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with Dr. Nanyun Peng's PLUSLAB, as well as Dr. Rena Torres Cacoullos at Pennsylvania State University.
Broadly, I like producing language technologies that aid in maintaining language practices. Hobbies include writing, dancing flamenco, and collecting earrings!
Master of Science, Computer Science, UCLA
Bachelor of Science with Honors, Computer Science (AI Focus), Stanford University
Minor in Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity, Stanford University
Minor in Dance, Stanford University
Alvero, A., & Pattichis, R. (2024, July). Multilingualism and Mismatching: Identification and Analysis of
Spanish Language Usage in College Admissions Essays. Poetics.
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Pattichis, R. (2024). Grounding Code-Switching Evaluation to Community Speech Patterns. [Masters Thesis,
UCLA]. UCLA ProQuest Repository. Advisor: Prof. Nanyun Peng.
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Wan, Y., Subramonian, A., Ovalle, A., Lin, Z., Suvarna, A., Chance, C., Bansal, H., Pattichis, R., & Chang, K.
(2024, April). Survey of Bias In Text-to-Image Generation: Definition, Evaluation, and Mitigation.
ArXiv.
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Pattichis, R., & Pattichis, M. (2024, March). Understanding Neural Network Systems for Image Analysis
using Vector Spaces. In The IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI).
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Pattichis, R., LaCasse, D., Trawick, S., & Torres Cacoullos, R. (2023, December). Code-switching Metrics Using
Intonation Units. In The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).
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Vinella, A., Capetz, M0., Pattichis, R., Chance, C., Ghosh, R., & Chang, K. (2023, October). Leveraging Language
Models to Detect Greenwashing. ArXiv.
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Pattichis, R. (2022). Centering the Voices of First-Generation Immigrant Youth: Multilingual NLP Methods in
the Translanguaging Context. [Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Stanford University]. Stanford Digital Repository.
Advisor: Prof. Christopher Manning.
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