Ph.D.: UCLA (Linguistics, 1992).
Dissertation title:
Description Theory, Licensing Theory, and Principle-Based Grammars and Parsers.
Committee co-chairs:
Ed Stabler
and
Vicki Fromkin
.
(Thesis available as UCLA Dissertations in Linguistics Number 19.)
M.A.: UCLA (Linguistics, 1987).
Thesis title:
Morphological Computations.
Committee chair:
Steve Anderson
.
B.A.: Brown University (English Language and Literature, 1980). Magna cum Laude.
3/95-present: Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter (``scientific employee'') at the Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, University of Tübingen.
10/91-3/95: Assistant Research Scientist, Cognitive Science Program and Cognitive Neuroscience Center, University of Arizona.
(1985-1991: Graduate Student.)
1983-1985: Programmer, Management Information Systems Department, Johnson and Wales College, Providence, Rhode Island.
1982-1983: Programmer, Systems Management Associates, North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
Winter Semester 1999-2000: Computational Linguistics 1 (``Computerlinguistik I''), University of Tübingen.
Winter Semester 1998-9: Introduction to Constraint Programming (``Einführung in die Constraint-Programmierung''). With Frank Morawietz, University of Tübingen.
``Logical Approaches to Syntactic Theories.'' Tutorial given, with James Rogers , at the ACL/EACL 97 Conference in Madrid.
Summer Semester 1995-9: Introduction to PROLOG (``Einführung in Prolog''), Tutorial in Computer Science for Linguists (``Informatische Propädeutik''), University of Tübingen.
Winter Semester 1995-8: Tutorial in Computer Science for Linguists (``Informatische Propädeutik''), University of Tübingen.
Fall 1992, Spring 1993, Fall 1994: Instructional workshops on Programming in Prolog, for undergraduates, graduate students and faculty in the University of Arizona Cognitive Science Program.
Winter, 1990: Teaching Assistant, Ling. 185, Intro. to Computational Linguistics. Instructor: Edward P. Stabler, Jr.
Spring, 1989: Special Reader, Ling. 165b/200b, Linguistic Theory: Grammar. Instructor: Hilda Koopman.
Winter, 1989: Teaching Assistant, Ling. 100, Intro. to the study of Linguistics. Instructor: Susan Curtiss.
Fall, 1988: Teaching Assistant, Ling. 185, Intro. to Computational Linguistics. Instructor: Robin Clark.
Spring, 1988: Teaching Assistant, Ling. 1, Intro. to the study of Language. Instructor: Victoria A. Fromkin.
Winter, 1988: Teaching Assistant for Ling. 185, Intro. to Computational Linguistics. Instructor: Eric Wehrli.
that I speak: English (fluently), German and French (neither very well);
that I've studied (more than casually): Old Icelandic, Crow, Modern Icelandic, Middle Welsh, Old English, Modern Welsh.
that I've used in research: Prolog, Pascal/Modula;
that I've taught: Prolog, Scheme, Java, Basic;
that I've programmed in for money: Pascal/Modula, Cobol, Basic, Assembler.