#introduction: my work

I do natural language processing. I hope for a future where NLP code can still be run by individuals, not just by hitting the expensive, opaque, harmful APIs of the same three companies. ChatGPT is a demo of a bad future.

I was the lead developer of the multilingual semantic network ConceptNet from 2006 to 2020. I don't run it anymore but it's still there (https://conceptnet.io).

I made "ftfy", the Unicode-fixer used everywhere: https://ftfy.readthedocs.io