I live in Austin, Texas where I am a graduate student in the department of Linguistics and a member of the UT Computational Linguistics Lab at the University of Texas.
My interests in Linguistics include computational linguistics & natural language processing, machine learning, dependency parsing, distributional models of word-meaning, categorial grammar, parsing, parser induction, discourse semantics, time & temporal semantics, lexical semantics and integrating all of the above into some kind of theoretical whole. Strictly outside of linguistics, I'm interested in logic, philosophy of language, theoretical computer science and category theory. Outside of the academe, my primary interest is being a dad.
The proceedings of the tenth Texas Linguistics Society are now published and available for free from CSLI Online Publications here »
The topic of TLSX was "Computational Linguistics for Less-Studied Languages". This follows its predecessor TLS9 in its attention to less studied languages, only from the perspective of computational linguistics. Putting together TLSX, we were interested in bringing together people and ideas from the documentary and descriptive linguistics communities and from computational linguistics to explore shared problems and goals and compatible techniques. The papers that were presented at TLSX concerned a great variety of languages (Mayan, Bantu, signed, Uto-Aztecan, Arabic among others); and the novel application of several computational techniques to these languages, including transfer learning, grammar engineering and finite-state methods. We (the organizers and later editors of the proceedings) were very happy with the results. For more about all this, look at our editors' preface.
Department of Linguistics
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Austin, TX 78712 USA
Office Location: CAL 536 B
Office hours: Tuesday & Wednesday 1:30 PM — 3:00 PM
A Sequencing Model for Situation Entity Classification.Inducing Combinatory Categorial Grammars with Genetic Algorithms.Two approaches to Mayan grammar development in CCG.Type Polymorphism in English Logical Grammar.Type Polymorphism in English.The aim of the TexTime project is to improve our understanding of and create computational analyses of events and entities evoked in natural language texts and the structure and progression of time over those events. This work will not only contribute to the scientific understanding of how time is conceptualized and communicated in language, but will lead to the development of tools to assist in cross-cultural information exchange.
TexTime is supported by the Morris Memorial Trust Fund through the New York Community Trust.
Last updated: 8 Feb 2009
