Nathan White

Dr Nathan M. White has worked for nearly a decade with the Hmong diaspora community with a focus on applied natural language processing-based methods of linguistic analysis of an under-documented, low-resource language with origins in Southeast Asia. As part of his PhD, he produced the Hmong Medical Corpus, a gold-standard biomedical corpus with an integrated AI-based question-answering system, which represents the first such system for a low-resource minority language.

Currently, Dr White is a postdoctoral researcher with continuing research in machine learning and fieldwork-based data acquisition and analysis, with a focus on developing novel computational methods of analysis for linguistics as well as developing AI-based language applications in a low-resource environment.

His ongoing activities include research and development for potentially commercialisable applications in the NLP space in areas as diverse as medical communication and sustainability.