Shane A. Sparks (Preferred)
Shane A Sparks
Shane Sparks
Shane A. Sparks
MS student, Computational Linguistics, Indiana University at Bloomington
Researcher, NLP Lab at Indiana University
Joined
March 2026
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Emails
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Career & Education History
MS student
Computational Linguistics, Indiana University at Bloomington (bloomington.iu.edu)
2025 – Present
Researcher
NLP Lab at Indiana University (nlp-lab.org)
2023 – Present
Undergrad student
Computer Science, Indiana University at Bloomington (bloomington.iu.edu)
2021 – 2025
Undergrad student
Computational Linguistics, Indiana University at Bloomington (bloomington.iu.edu)
2021 – 2025
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Expertise
Natural language processing
, computational linguistics
, natural language understanding
, computational semantics
Present
Word embeddings
, large language models
, transformers
, semantic spaces
Present
Ontologies
, knowledge graphs
, graph-based reasoning
, neuro-symbolic reasoning
Present
Quantum computing
, quantum natural language processing
, classical/quantum hybridization
Present