u.washington.edu
I am currently a third year Ph.D. student in Linguistics at the University of Washington. My research is based in language documentation and computational methods for the discovery and interoperability of linguistic data for accessibility and analysis. My interests include software development, internationalization and UI.
At the UW I have the pleasure of working in the Catalyst Research team as an RA in user interface design. Catalyst develops very cool open source web tools.
I am also involved in various endangered language documentation initiatives and projects. I am technical lead for the Languages of the Dogon project, an NSF/NEH funded initiative to document languages of Mali. Under development is a large online-accessible comparative lexicon of these efforts (with extensive flora and fauna multimedia data forthcoming). The project's website is: http://dogonlanguages.org.
Before coming to UW, I worked for five years with The Linguist List, where I was team leader and architect of the E-MELD School of Best Practices in Digital Language Documentation. It's a very useful tool if you're into Documentary Linguistics and one of the funnest things I helped to create while with The Linguist List.
My Ph.D. advisor is Professor Emily Bender. She is also Director of UW's Professional MA in Computational Linguistics program.My CV is here in PDF. It needs to learn to update itself. Here also in PDF is my M.A. thesis "A Grammatical Sketch of Isaalo (Western Sisaala)", a previously undocumented language spoken in the Upper West Region of Ghana. I did fieldwork on this language for a three month period in 2003. Here, look at me 'in the field.' :)
You can contact me at: stivu.washington.edu
