{"id":15202,"date":"2022-11-28T06:39:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T11:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=15202"},"modified":"2022-11-27T10:40:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T15:40:27","slug":"industry-workshop-11-30-dr-sherry-yong-chen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2022\/11\/28\/industry-workshop-11-30-dr-sherry-yong-chen\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry workshop (11\/30) - Dr. Sherry Yong Chen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>who: Dr. Sherry Yong Chen<br clear='none'\/>\nwhen: 11\/30, 2pm<br clear='none'\/>\nwhere: virtual talk (contact Hadas for zoom link)<br clear='none'\/>\nwhat: Sherry got her PhD in linguistics from MIT, where she worked on semantics\/pragmatics and language acquisition. She currently works as a Knowledge Engineer at Amazon - Alexa AI. In her role, she creates ontological designs to expand Alexa\u0092s question-answering abilities, performs data analyses to understand existing gaps, and does program management for her team\u0092s event coverage. Most recently, she worked on Alexa\u0092s QnA coverage for the midterm election.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about her team: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.jobs\/en\/locations\/sba-california\">https:\/\/www.amazon.jobs\/en\/locations\/sba-california<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sherry came to the US as an international student, and has experience in navigating the job market and the immigration processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>who: Dr. Sherry Yong Chen when: 11\/30, 2pm where: virtual talk (contact Hadas for zoom link) what: Sherry got her PhD in linguistics from MIT, where she worked on semantics\/pragmatics and language acquisition. She currently works as a Knowledge Engineer at Amazon - Alexa AI. In her role, she creates ontological designs to expand Alexa\u0092s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15203,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15202\/revisions\/15203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}