Robert Elwell

–University of Texas at Austin – Department of Linguistics–
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About Me
Robert Elwell himself petting a cat at the Austin zoo and thinking about entropy.
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.

While I'm bragging, I'm also getting married.


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