I am a graduate of the UT Austin Linguistics Department Master's
program. I currently work at
Vertive, Inc.
as a PHP Developer. I'm one of the main developers of
Offers.com, an
up-and-coming savings and coupon website. It's also a much better
example of my front-end design capabilities -- this site gets a
little neglected.
My current experience focuses heavily on domain-specific search
implementations. I'd like to consider myself an expert at
bending Lucene to the will of specific business requirements.
Much of my work is in the Zend Framework, but I also have a
little fun with Ruby on Rails on the side. My scholarly interests
are computational linguistics,
machine learning (especially Bayesian approaches), the Bantu
language family, morphology, data-intensive phonology and
morphology, information theory, frequency, and multi-modal
combinatory categorial
grammar.
In Spring 2008, I was teaching assistant
for LIN 312,
Language and Computers, an undergraduate survey of computational
linguistics geared towards liberal arts students taught by Jason Baldridge.
In the second half of 2007, I was a research assistant working under Jason Baldridge and
Nicholas Asher, who are principal investigators on
an NSF-funded project
investigating discourse structure and coreference in machine learning.
My MA thesis, which stems from this work, is available in the papers section.