ALUMNA REPORT: THOMPSON

Alumna Anie Thompson (PhD 2014) just started a new job at H5 in San Francisco. She filed this report about her recent move:

After a stint working on-site at Google, I’ve recently started as an associate consultant at H5 in San Francisco. H5 provides information retrieval and ediscovery services to law firms and other clients, which basically means that the client gives us a corpus of documents for a case, and we go through it in search of the ones that are relevant. Unsurprisingly, linguists are useful for finding things in large corpora, and I’m working alongside a number of linguists here, including fellow UCSC grad alum Tami Schuyler. I’m enjoying the work quite a bit — it’s fascinating to get an inside perspective on litigation, and the actual process of handling the corpora can get pretty interesting, too.