Discourse connective argument identification with connective specific rankers

With Jason Baldridge. Presented at the IEEE International conference on Semantic Computing, 2008.

Plurality in Binary: An Investigation into Markedness and Frequency (Abstract)

Presented at the Texas Linguistics Society 11. Explores the role frequency plays in markedness for null singular / marked plural morphological alternation in English.

Finite State Methods for Bantu Verb Morphology

Published in the Proceedings of the Texas Linguistics Society X. An outline of the development of a finite-state morphological transducer for Ekegusii, a Bantu language spoken in Kenya.

Entropy-Conditioned Syncope of Vowels in Latin and Ibero-Romance

Accepted to the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Explores the relationship between frequency and diachronic phonological change.

Using Syllables as Features in Morpheme Tagging in Swahili

Proceedings fo the Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium. Outlines the success of a maximum entropy classifier in glossing Swahili verbs.

Authorship Analysis in the Blogosphere

With Manish Katyal, final paper for Machine Learning with Ray Mooney. Employs statistical methods in an attempt to identify blogs of origin for specific articles.

Reexamining Lexical Integrity: The Case of Verbal Extensions in Bantu

A term paper that uses combinatory categorial grammar to challenge the combinatory explosion of verb forms that agglutinating languages present under the lexical integrity principle. Last updated May 2007.

Final Vowel Agreement in the Ekegusii Verb

Squib written for a syntax class focusing on Lexical Functional Grammar circa 2006.

Ekegusii Verb Morphology

Undergraduate honor's thesis, working with elicitations from a native speaker.