Welcome

My Interests

CompLing, NLP

My principle interests are computational linguistics and natural language processing. I am especially interested in NLP approaches that are applicable to poorly resourced languages.

Morphological Induction

Within that, one of my foci is on approaches for learning morphology, or word structure, (semi-)automatically. I am interested in applications of induced morphologies to other NLP areas like language modeling, information retrieval, and machine translation.

Language Technology

I have a strong interest in language technology applications, including search, linguistic input and localization solutions, and document proofing tools.

Languages

Languages that currently fascinate me include English, Turkish and the rest of the Turkic family, Finnish, Hebrew, and Latin.

MA Thesis

My masters thesis is on knowledge-lite induction of underlying morphologies using context-sensitive rewrite rules. [ more ]

Education

• MA in Linguistics with a focus in Computational Linguistics from the University of Washington
• BS in Mathematics with a focus in Numerical Analysis from the University of Texas at Austin

Experience

• I spent Summer 2008 at Palo Alto Research Center in California.
• In Spring 2008 I worked for the MSR Machine Translation group.
• I spent Summer 2006 interning at Tegic Communications (now owned by Nuance) working on T9 predictive text.