Who am I?
Good question. Here’s the nearest I can figure it: I am…
- an American currently living in Sweden
- a teacher, mostly of undergrads, mostly in linguistics, English, and Spanish
- a linguist, eternally working towards my PhD
- a computer programmer, working primarily on projects related to linguistics
- a writer, translator, and editor, working on all kinds of stuff
- a great lover of languages, particularly Romance and Germanic languages
- a photographer of little renown
- a man with a near-perfect wife; if you know her, you’ll know what I mean1
- a generally fun-loving fellow
In case that’s not enough, here are some more facts:
A Random Selection of Bad Habits I Have
- Using swearwords, even in front of my mother
- Confusing the words “restaurant” and “hotel” in my own mother tongue
- Getting toothpaste on everything
And, to be balanced:
A Random Selection of Good Habits I Have
- Conserving resources semi-fanatically
- Promoting free stuff, like my own software
- Flossing regularly
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A Japanese person recently asked me whether this means my wife is rich. No, I said, sorry, it doesn’t. ↩
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A random pic for you:
CenDiPede
I have a new website, cendipede.org, which will present the product of my doctoral thesis project, the Corpus-Derived Profiles framework, and the Java implementation of the framework, known as CenDiPede. Check it out if you’re interested in studying word meaning in corpora.
Dexter
I'm the creator of Dexter, a suite of software tools for the analysis of linguistic data. It's free software that helps you do detailed analyses of spoken or written texts. Feel free to try it out!
Reference Checker
If you write academic papers, feel free to try out my Reference Checker. It's a free online tool for cross-checking all the references in a paper with the bibliography. It has even been called "one of the best things you can find on the internet" (and not by me)!