Hi, I'm
Luis A. Mercado
I'm a computational linguist
Consummated geek, amateur everything else, now with a PhD in progress.
So, who am I?
Well, the long version is in Aramaic, so here's the short one.
Incurable language nerd, linguist, and software engineer. I build AI systems where code meets language. These days that means leading AI engineering work in industry while chasing a dual PhD in linguistics (focused on computational linguistics) and cognitive science, researching NLP for the indigenous languages of Mexico.
Education
PhDs, CU Boulder, USA
1st PhD in
Linguistics
2nd PhD in
Cognitive science
MSc · Natural Language Processing
UPV/EHU · Spain
MSc · Computer Science
Tec de Monterrey · Mexico
BSc · Computer Science
Tec de Monterrey · Mexico
Translate Masewalkopa ↔ Spanish
work in progressA translator I built specifically for the Masewalkopa variety of Nawatl (Santa Ana Tlacotenco). Live and bidirectional, and actually running right now. This is a different model from the one on Hugging Face: that one is more general, this one focuses solely on Masewalkopa.
Break down a Nawatl word
work in progressA finite-state morphological analyzer I built for Masewalkopa · Nawatl, the same engine behind a feature in an app I'm currently working on. This is a small preview, not the full free-typing tool: a handful of real examples showing how it splits a word into its prefix, root, and suffix.
Things I've published
See all projectsThe power of simplicity: n-grams and transformers in Nahuatl language identification
Mercado Campos, L.A., Pugh, R., & Palmer, A.
Spanish–Nawatl neural machine translation
A low-resource NMT system from my M.S. thesis (UPV/EHU), built with elotl.mx.
Call me, maybe?
Want to collaborate on minoritized (low-resource) NLP? Need a GenAI systems brain? Got a joke? Hit me up.