Education

2009 - Present
Doctoral student in Linguistics, The University of California, San Diego

2002
AB Linguistics, The University of Chicago

Honors, Phi Beta Kappa
2000 - 2001 abroad Université Paris X Nanterre

French certification: High pass with honors

GPA: 3.7 GRE: 800 verbal, 770 quantitative, 6 writing

High School, George Stevens Academy, Blue Hill, Maine, 1998
Salutatorian, National Merit Scholarship
SAT:: 800 verbal, 780 quantitative, 800 writing

Employment

2008 - Present
Computational Linguist at ♥ Wordnik

Machine learning, computational lexicography and corpus linguistics

1999 - Present (2004 - 2009 full time)
Programmer Analyst at The University of Chicago, jointly for
⚜ The ARTFL Project and The Digital Library Development Center

Machine learning and text mining (Perl); text search, retrieval and display; dictionaries; Linux, OS X server administration; web development.
Major projects: PhiloLogic, a full-text search and retrieval engine; PhiloMine, a machine learning and text mining environment; and PAIR, an object-oriented Perl module for sequence alignment to efficiently detect text reuse in very large corpora.

2002 - 2003

Web Developer at eJungle Engineering, San Diego, California

Dove Apparel: custom, ground-up shopping cart in ASP/SQL.
Administration: Database (MSSQL, MySQL), Email, IIS, DNS, Windows NT/2000, maintain server in collocation facility
Development: PHP, ASP, SQL, HTML, Flash, Photoshop, MS Access
Customer liaison: meeting with clients, managing projects

2001 - 2002

Web Developer at Baobab Software, Paris, France

Software interface translation: French to English
Creating Flash movie help files
PHP/MySQL applications

2000 - 2002

Web Developer at The University of Chicago Admissions IT

Solo project, created award winning UC Virtual Tour: shot and knit spherical panoramas, pictures and descriptions load dynamically via XML into a Quicktime/Flash movie (LiveStage Pro) from MySQL via PHP.
Kiosk Site: touch-screen kiosk programming.

1999 - 2000

Technician at UChicago Lab Schools Information Systems

Mac/PC Support: software, hardware
Networking: wiring, router, cable making

Publications

with Mark Olsen and Glenn Roe, "Something Borrowed: Sequence Alignment and the Identification of Similar Passages in Large Text Collections", Digital Studies / Le Champ numérique Vol 2, No 1, 2010. (pdf html)
with Timothy Allen, Stéphane Douard, Charles Cooney, Robert Morrissey, Mark Olsen, Glenn Roe, and Robert Voyer, "Plundering Philosophers: Identifying Sources of the Encyclopédie", Journal of the Association for History and Computing, vol. 13, no. 1, Spring 2010. (html)
with Shlomo Argamon, Charles Cooney, Mark Olsen, and Sterling Stein, "Gender, Race, and Nationality in Black Drama, 1850-2000: Mining Differences in Language Use in Authors and their Characters", Digital Humanities Quarterly, Spring 2009, Volume 3, Number 2. (html)
with Shlomo Argamon, Jean-Baptiste Goulain, and Mark Olsen, "Vive la Différence! Text Mining Gender Difference in French Literature", Digital Humanities Quarterly, Spring 2009, Volume 3, Number 2. (html)
with Robert Morrissey, Mark Olsen, Glenn Roe, and Robert Voyer, "Mining Eighteenth Century Ontologies: Machine Learning and Knowledge Classification in the Encyclopédie", Digital Humanities Quarterly, Spring 2009, Volume 3, Number 2. (html)

Conference Papers

with Les Henderson, "Sequence Alignment and Similarity in Biology and the Humanities", Dgitial Humanities and Computer Science 2010, Northwestern University, Novemeber 20th 2010 (pdf)
with Mark Olsen and Glenn Roe, "PAIR: Pairwise Alignment for Intertextual Relations", Annual Meeting of the Society for Digital Humanities -- Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs - Carleton University, Ottawa, May 25-27, 2009.
with Charles Cooney, Mark Olsen, Glenn Roe, and Robert Voyer, "Deconstructing Machine Learning: A Challenge for Digital Humanities", Digital Humanities 2008, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, June 25-29, 2008 (gpf abs)
with Charles Cooney, Mark Olsen, Glenn Roe and Robert Voyer,"PhiloMine: An Integrated Environment for Humanities Text Mining", Digital Humanities 2008, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, June 25-29, 2008 (gpf abs)
with Charles Cooney, Mark Olsen, Glenn Roe, and Robert Voyer, "Hidden Roads and Twisted Paths: Intertextual Discovery using Clusters, Classifications, and Similarities", Digital Humanities 2008, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, June 25-29, 2008 (gpf abs)
with Charles Cooney, Mark Olsen, Glenn Roe, and Robert Voyer, "Feature Creep: Evaluating Feature Sets for Text Mining Literary Corpora", Digital Humanities 2008, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, June 25-29, 2008 (gpf abs)
with Charles Cooney, Robert Morrissey, Mark Olsen, Glenn Roe, and Robert Voyer, "Re-engineering the tree of knowledge: Vector space analysis and centroid-based clustering in the Encyclopédie", Digital Humanities 2008, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, June 25-29, 2008 (gpf abs)
with Shlomo Argamon, Mark Olsen and Sterling Stein, "Gender, Race, and Nationality in Black Drama, 1850-2000: Mining Differences in Language Use in Authors and their Characters", Digital Humanities 2007, University of Illinois, June 2007 (html)
Shlomo Argamon, Jean-Baptiste Goulain, Russell Horton and Mark Olsen, "Discourse, power and écriture féminine: Text mining gender difference in 18th and 19th century French literature", Digital Humanities 2007, University of Illinois, June 2007 (html)
with Robert Morrissey, Mark Olsen, Glenn Roe and Robert Voyer,"Mining Eighteenth Century Ontologies: Machine Learning and Knowledge Classification in the Encyclopédie", Digital Humanities 2007, University of Illinois, June 2007. (gpf)
with Charles Cooney, Mark Olsen, Glenn Roe, and Robert Voyer, "Extending PhiloLogic", Digital Humanities 2007, University of Illinois, June 2007 (html)

Invited Presentations

"'Ever since nineteen, had a perfect rhyme scheme': A corpus study of English rap rhyme" Networks and Network Analysis for the Humanities: Reunion Conference, The University of California at Los Angeles, Oct 20 - 22 2011.
with Mark Olsen. Sequence Alignment, Shared Services, and Digital Humanities, Project Bamboo Workshop, Tucson, Arizona, January 2009. (gpf)
with Robert Morrissey, "The ARTFL Project: From words to works", The Dilemmas of Digitization, Oxford University, May 22-24, 2008.

Posters

with Cody Brimhall and Emily Morgan, "A machine learning approach to rhythmic classification of languages", Journal of the Acoustic Society of America, Volume 128, Issue 4, pp. 2478-2478 (2010) (html).

Software

PhiloLogic full-text search and retrieval engine
PhiloMine machine learning and text mining extensions to PhiloLogic
PAIR: Pairwise Alignment for Intertextual Relations text sequence alignment package

Professional Service

Manuscript reviewer, Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2012

Funding

Laverne Noyes Scholarship, UCSD 2012-2013
$50,000 NEH Digital Humanities Start-up Grant for the creation of the Dictionnaire Vivant de la Langue Français
Provost’s Program for Academic Technology Innovation grant to support PhiloMine machine learning framework at ARTFL
Dean's Grant 2010 - 2011 at UCSD
National Merit Finalist Scholarship at the University of Chicago

Misc

Winner, 2010 NAACL HLT Poetry Contest :)
Erdős number 4: Shlomo Argamon → Sarit Kraus → Menachem Magidor → Paul Erdős