Cyberling 2009 Workshop participants are asked to please give short bios listing their relevant areas of expertise and interest.

Debbie Anderson

wiki username: DeborahAnderson
website: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/
email: dwanders@sonic.net

I run a project at UC Berkeley, the Script Encoding Initiative, that assists groups (and individuals) in getting eligible scripts and characters into the Unicode Standard/ISO 10646, the international character code standard. I am particularly keen on being sure linguists and members of the user communities (especially minority language speakers) get a voice in the development of standards. I am the UC Berkeley representative to the Unicode Consortium, and a member of the US delegation to ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC2 Working Group 2 on coded character sets.

Anthony Aristar

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Peter Austin

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Collin Baker

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Mary Beckman

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Dorothee Beermann

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website: http://www.hf.ntnu.dorothee.beermann
email: dorothee.beermann@hf.ntnu.no

I am associate professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.
My interest in Cyberlinguistics results from working across linguistic fields, from grammar engineering on the one hand to African linguistics on the other. Perhaps in particular when working across frameworks one would like to know what defines linguistics as a whole. Can we for example find a common answer to the question: 'What defines linguistic methodology?'?
I am in particular interested in the role that interlinear glosses (IGs) play in linguistic research. Not so happy with the role IGs play at present, I would like to help facilitate a development where they become an independent linguistic resource - accessible to all of us.
Together with Pavel Mihaylov I have created a linguistic tool that helps to generate, store and retrieve IGs in a setting that allows sharing them with a group of colleagues or to publish them online. (TypeCraft).

Emily M. Bender, University of Washington

wiki username: EmilyMBender
website: http://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/
email: ebender@u.washington.edu

I am one of the co-organizers of Cyberling 2009. My interest in cyberinfrastructure for linguistics stems from my work on grammar engineering for linguistic hypothesis testing. I see this as one example of computational methods in support of linguistic analysis: using computers to systematically work with larger data sets and manage greater complexity than we could do without computational aids. I am also very interested in the issue of culture change within the field of linguistics, i.e., how to create a culture in which data sharing and the validation of hypotheses against large datasets are expected and rewarded.

Balthasar Bickel

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Kurt Bollacker

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Bill Byrne

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Nicoletta Calzolari

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Grev Corbett

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Helen Dry

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Arienne Dwyer

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Scott Farrar

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Chuck Fillmore

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Robert Forkel

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website: https://dev.livingreviews.org/projects/epubtk/wiki/people/robert
email: forkel@mpdl.mpg.de

I am a mathematician-turned-software developer working at the Max Planck Digital Library. My interest for web infrastructure for linguistics started while working on WALS Online. Having a couple more projects coming in, I'm interested in ways to publish linguistic data as part of the Linked Open Data Cloud. The data I'm concerned with mainly is word lists, interlinear glosses, etc.

What I hope to take away from cyberling is a clearer idea about the lowest level of quality/granularity which would make sharing data still fruitful - I'm looking for low-hanging fruit.

Jeff Good

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website:http://buffalo.edu/~jcgood/
email: jcgood@buffalo.edu

I am one of the co-organizers of the Cyberling workshop. (Unfortunately, however, I will not be able to attend most of it.) I am interested in how cyberlinguistic infrastructure can facilitate work in language description, typology, and comparative and historical linguistics.

Martin Haspelmath

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Nancy Ide

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Florian Jaeger, University of Rochester

wiki username: FlorianJaeger
website: http://www.hlp.rochester.edu [nevermind the security warning; trust me]
email: fjaeger@bcs.rochester.edu

I received my M.A. in Linguistics and Computer Science (HU & TU Berlin, with a visit to UC Berkeley) and my PhD in Linguistics with a designation in cognitive science (Stanford University with a visit to MIT). I have been at Rochester (Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science) since 01/2007, where I working on efficient language production, maintenance of probabilistic linguistic representations, and other such stuff. My involvement in Cyberling 2009 is related to my interests in replicability and extensibility of scientific work. This implies development of tools and annotation standards that make the data sets developed by one researchers useful to others. I am also interested in cheap `technology' with possible high impact factor, such as taking laptops to the field to run psycholinguistic studies, or the use of online platforms like Mechanical Turk to elicit large amounts of data from many languages at low cost. This often results in unbalanced, highly clustered data (similar to corpus data) for which modern statistical methods are required (in which I am also interested ... conveniently).

Eric Kansa

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Tracy Holloway King

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website: http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~thking/
email: tracyhollowayking@gmail.com

I am on the LSA TAC committee (with a number of people on this list). I currently manage the natural language engineering groups at Powerset, a semantic search company acquired last year by Microsoft. I have been a co-organizer for the first three grammar engineering across frameworks (GEAF) workshops. I am particularly interested in making sure that resources, platforms, and theories created can be used cross-linguistically.

Terry Langendoen

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Mark Liberman

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David Lightfoot

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Brian MacWhinney

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website: talkbank.org
email: macw@cmu.edu

Brian MacWhinney, Professor of Psychology, Computational Linguistics, and Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed a model of first and second language acquisition and processing called the Competition Model. He has also developed the CHILDES Project (childes.psy.cmu.edu) for the computational study of child language transcript data and the TalkBank (talkbank.org) system for the study of conversational interactions.

Dan McCloy, University of Washington

wiki username: danmccloy
email: drmccloy@u.washington.edu

I am a graduate student in Linguistics at the University of Washington. My research is primarily in formal semantics. As one of the organizers of Cyberling 2009, I am the primary point-of-contact for most inquiries about workshop logistics.

Pavel Mihaylov

wiki username: pavel.mihaylov
email: bin,at,bash,dot,info

I am a computational linguist working for Ontotext, a mixed industry/research company based in Sofia, Bulgaria. My main occupation is web mining/information extraction and finite-state morphologies. Together with Dorothee Beermann, I work on TypeCraft (see Dorothee's bio). Other than the computational bit, I have a general interest in linguistics and languages.

Steve Moran

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Johanna Nichols

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Alexis Palmer

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Cornelius Puschmann, University of Düsseldorf

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website: http://ynada.com/
email: cornelius.puschmann@uni-duesseldorf.de

I am a postdoc at the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany. My involvement in Cyberling 2009 stems from my role as the technical coordinator of eLanguage, the LSA's Open Access publishing platform. I am also a strong proponent for Open Access and Open Data in linguistics and in other disciplines.

David Robinson

wiki username: drobinsonlsa
website: http://www.lsadc.org
email: drobinson@lsadc.org

I am the Director of Membership and Meetings for the Linguistic Society of America. I will be attending Cyberling 2009 in order to assess how the LSA can best put the findings of this workshop at the disposal of LSA members as well as the profession at large.

Stuart Robinson

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Koenraad de Smedt

wiki username: Koenraad
website: http://ling.uib.no/desmedt/
email: desmedt@uib.no

I am professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Bergen, Norway. During the past years I have been working on parsebanking. I am currently the national contact person for CLARIN in Norway and a member of the Science Opportunities Panel of the eVITA Programme Committee (Research Council of Norway). I am also coordinator of the CLARA, which will start up this fall. CLARA is a European Marie Curie Initial Training Network aimed at providing researcher training to the next generation of computational linguists who will work with research infrastructures. In 2007 I organized a workshop on Unified Linguistic Annotation.

Virach Sornlertlamvanich

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Paul Trilsbeek

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website: http://www.mpi.nl/people/trilsbeek-paul
email: Paul.Trilsbeek@mpi.nl

I am an archive manager for the language archive at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, part of which is the DOBES archive of endangered languages. At MPI we also develop an array of linguistic tools and a framework for digital archiving of language resources. In the European CLARIN project, which aims at creating a common infrastructure for languae resources and technology, the MPI plays an important role in the technical work package (WP2).

Dwight van Tuyl, Eastern Michigan University

wiki username: dvantuyl
website: http://linguistlist.org/people/dwight.html
email: dwight@linguistlist.org

I'm a programmer at the LINGUIST List at Eastern Michigan University. We've recently finished the GOLD Community website at http://linguistics-ontology.org which attempts to build a community around the General Ontology of Linguistic Description currently being developed by Scott Farrar of the University of Washington. At the LINGUIST List, we plan on using GOLD in our latest project, LEGO, for annotating lexical data with GOLD concept URI's. I'm hoping to come back from this workshop with an understanding of what tools andinterpolatablestandards could be used for projects like LEGO in order to provide a low barrier of entry for participating in a cyberinfrastructure for linguists.

Tandy Warnow

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Alicia Wassink

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Laura Welcher

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Richard Wright

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