Research

• At and around the Linguistics department
  • Comparative Bantu Online Dictionary Project (CBOLD) with Prof. Larry Hyman. [summary]
  • Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus Project (STEDT) with Prof. Jim Matisoff. [summary]
  • Turkish Electronic Living Lexicon (TELL) with Prof. Sharon Inkelas [summary]
  • International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) where I work with Prof. Charles Fillmore, among others, on lexical semantics projects, including FrameNet, a frame semantic lexicon of English.
  • The Phonology Lab at UCB [summary]
• Membre of LACITO/CNRS, Paris working on, among other things:
  • The Reconstruction Engine , a computer program implementing the comparative method. [Version français]
  • A digital archive of linguistic fieldwork recordings, the Projet archivage de données linguistique. [English version]

Teaching

• I sometimes teach Linguistics 158: Computer-aided methods in linguistics .

Industry

• Chief Linguist and Vice President of Language Engineeering, Ask Jeeves, Inc., a leading provider of Natural Language information retrieval systems from 1999 to 2001.
• Consulting to various commercial and governmental entities in the areas of information retrieval, natural language processing, and library automation.

Other interests

• past President and Operations officer for the University of California Flying Club .

• Assistant Instructor for the U.C. Berkeley Judo Club .
• Woodstock School, India : Class of 1972. [2002 reunion]

Advertising for other projects, etc.

• California Digital Libraries, formerly the Division of Library Automation, where I used to work on, among other things, the MELVYL online catalog .
• International and Area Studies (IAS) .
• The Neural Theory of Language Project at ICSI (mentioned above).
• Tintin page.
• Wallace and Gromit page (picture of the pair)

More details

• My dissertationwill be here someday...
• Résumés and CV's:
  • Complete academic curriculum vitae [html]
  • Industry Résumé [html]
  • Shorter industry Résumé [text] [postscript]
  • Aviation CV [not yet available]
  • Martial Arts CV [postscript]

4/12/2004 jbl