Daniel Brubaker 🌠


Howdy! I am a computational linguist interested in discourse and semantics. My work focuses on using LMs to better understand about how people use language.

I am currently a PhD student at Georgetown University, advised by Amir Zeldes. Prior to that, I earned my BA and BS in Linguistics and Computer Science respectively from UT Austin, where I worked with Jessy Li and Kanishka Misra.

When I'm not thinking about language, I like to play the electric bass, go out into nature, and read books. My favorite national parks are Death Valley and Joshua Tree, and my favorite book is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I'm also a big fan of Emoji πŸŒƒ

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Publications 📜

Wugnectives: Novel Entity Inferences of Language Models from Discourse Connectives
Daniel Brubaker, William Sheffield, Junyi Jessy Li, Kanishka Misra
Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2026

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