I work with
language.
And all the trouble
it causes.
I'm Kate. I build things with language technology, research how people learn, help with civic-tech projects and write stories. This is where all those interests — and a few unrelated rabbit holes — meet.
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What keeps me
busy (and curious).
Some of these are my job. Some definitely aren't. They have a habit of overlapping.
Ask why.
How do people learn? What does language tell us? What can an AI model really know? I like trying to find out.
Explore research ↗ Engineering & productMake it work.
Taking language technology into real products — including the testing, trade-offs and awkward edge cases.
Explore the work ↗ Writing & imaginationWhat if?
Essays, unlikely scenarios and a speculative novel I'm still working on. The manuscript stays private for now.
Explore writing ↗AFTER
HOURS
Books, music, games, films, history — and whatever I've recently fallen down a rabbit hole researching.

Things I've helped
make happen.
Some of the things I've worked on, usually with very good people and at least one stubborn bug.
Making clinical language usable at scale
Multilingual information extraction, model evaluation, architecture and performance: moving complex NLP from research to dependable software at Dedalus.
Following claims through the noise
Fact-checking, media analysis and information integrity work with Aletheos and partner initiatives.
Connecting questions with useful answers
Semantic retrieval, multilingual question answering, text quality and personalised education.
Not everything that matters is easy to measure.
My PhD at Ghent University was about using NLP to make learning more personal. I still enjoy figuring out what models can tell us — and what they miss.
Research, papers & teaching ↗And then there's
the writing.
I write about language technology, things that catch my attention, and — when no one is measuring my F1 score — speculative fiction.
On the writing desk ↗Many notes.
No spoilers yet.