I have recently joined Amazon in Berlin to work on Natural Language Understanding within Alexa AI.
After completing my DPhil in Linguistics here at the University of Oxford (submitted: 22 February 2018, defended: 11 May 2018) I worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the MORPHON project team in the Language & Brain Laboratory.
Within this project, I was responsible for the design, conduct and analysis of electrophysiological (EEG) and behavioural experiments in which we investigated the mental representations of morphological complexity.
My research interests include the use of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) techniques for language processing, as well as topics in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and bilingualism.
Selected presentations:
Schuster, S., Scharinger, M., Brooks, C., Lahiri A. & Hartwigsen, G. (2018). The neural correlates of morphological structure detection in complex pseudowords. Poster presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, June 17th-21st, Singapore.
Schuster, S. & Lahiri, A. (2018). Morphological decomposition: All at once or step by step? Talk given at the 40th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society, March 7th-9th, Stuttgart, Germany.
Schuster, S., Scharinger, M., Brooks, C., Lahiri A. & Hartwigsen, G. (2017). The neural correlates of morphological structure detection in complex pseudowords. Talk given at fMRI and Language Processing Workshop, Dec 14th, Reading, UK.
Schuster, S. & Wynne, H.S.Z. (2017). Linear mixed effect modelling: maximal or optimal? Talk given at Statistical Standards for Scientific Discovery in Linguistics workshop, Oct 6th, Zurich, Switzerland.
Schuster, S. & Lahiri, A. (2017). Morphological decomposition through lexical gaps: Tapping into morphological rules in visual word recognition. Talk given at the Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, June 22nd-25th, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Schuster, S. & Lahiri, A. (2016). Deep Morphology: Processing of German complex nouns. Talk given at the 10th International Mental Lexicon Conference, October 19th-21st, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Schuster, S. & Lahiri, A. (2016). Hidden Morphology: Decomposition and Processing of German complex nouns. Talk given at the Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, April 1st-2nd, Berkeley, USA.
Schuster, S. & Lahiri, A. (2016). Hidden Morphology: Decomposition and Processing of German complex nouns. Talk given at the Annual Meeting of the 52nd Chicago Linguistics Society, April 21st-23rd, Chicago, USA.
Schuster, S. & Lahiri, A. (2015). Decomposition and processing of highly complex forms: A case study of German nouns. Poster presented at the 9th International Morphological Processing Conference, June 18th-20th, Potsdam, German.
Selected publications:
Schuster, S., & Lahiri, A. Gradations of interpretability in spoken complex word recognition. Neuropsychologia (2019). Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.04.006
Wheeldon, L., Schuster, S., Pliatsikas, C., Malpass, D. & Lahiri, A. (2018). Beyond decomposition: processing zero-derivations in English visual word recognition. Cortex. Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.09.003
Schuster, S., Scharinger, M., Brooks, C., Lahiri, A., Hartwigsen, G. (2018) The neural correlates of morphological complexity processing: Detecting structure in pseudowords. Human Brain Mapping, 2018; 00:1–12. Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23975
Schuster, S., & Lahiri, A. (2018) Lexical gaps and morphological decomposition: Evidence from German, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, April 26th. Link: https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000560
Schuster, S. (2017) Hidden Morphology: Decomposition and Processing of German complex nouns. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Chicago Linguistics Society.