Papers

10 Git Commands for Collaborating

software engineering

collaboration

tools

enterprise applications

Learn just enough Git and GitHub to contribute to an Open Source project.

Internationalizing an R application for model parameters that vary per country

R

design patterns

This talk presents a coding idiom for internationalizing a function, where the output depends on the locale in which the sampling occurred.

Model-Theory Semantics implemented in Clojure

semantics

Clojure

linguistics

Lightning talk presented at Lambda Lounge user group. St. Louis, MO. April 7, 2011.

Services that reach from the inside out

design patterns

enterprise applications

This presentation describes a design pattern for an enterprise application to communicate with an external third-party service.

Design considerations for applications that use domain-specific languages

rule-based systems

This paper discusses a few design problems that one encounters while developing a business application that uses an independent representation of business rules.

Structured radiology reporting: A 4 year case study of 160,000 reports

natural language generation

rule-based systems

This paper analyzes the use of structured radiology reports, including the ability to produce natural English sentences from structured input.

Choosing transaction models for enterprise applications

design patterns

enterprise applications

Each design pattern for transaction models provides a solution to a problem for a given context, while considering factors that will influence the choice of a solution.

Business goals for developing an enterprise application integration framework

enterprise applications

Case study: Publishing design deliverables on the web

enterprise applications

The risks of developing a framework in an immature domain

enterprise applications

Logical Forms for English Sentences

semantics

linguistics

My Ph.D. dissertation investigates the relationship between syntactic structure and semantic interpretation, in order to develop an explicit model of the mapping from surface syntactic forms to a level of Logical Form (LF) and finally to truth values.

Natural language processing applied to engineering notes

linguistics

rule-based systems

enterprise applications

This paper discusses a software package that converts engineering notes into a frame/slot representation for use by a process planning expert system.

Applying linguistic knowledge to engineering notes

linguistics

rule-based systems

This paper describes an analysis of engineering notes that led to development of a system for parsing those notes into a format that is accessible to planning rules in an expert system.

Accent shift in Seminole nouns

linguistics

A semantic characterization of referentially dependent noun phrases

semantics

linguistics

This paper provides a model-theoretic semantic analysis of referentially dependent noun phrases.

Interpreting generalized quantifiers in natural language

semantics

linguistics

This presentation was based on an early work that was later discussed in more detail in Chapter 4 of my dissertation.

Complex reciprocals in English

semantics

linguistics

This presentation was based on early work that was later discussed in more detail in Chapter 5 “A semantic hierarchy of referentially dependent noun phrases” of my dissertation.

Cultural identity perceived as linguistic identity: Results from a survey of the Nyang languages

Kenyang

sociolinguistics

linguistics

This paper presents the results of a language survey among the Nyang languages of western Cameroon, demonstrating that linguistic and sociolinguistic surveys are both required to identify dialects for literacy development programs.

A menu-based interface for expert system rules

rule-based systems

tools

We describe the Syntax-driven Menu-based Interfaces for Lex and Yacc grammars (SMILY) system, which is a tool for generating menu-based interfaces for context-free grammars.

Lexical and phrasal tone patterns: evidence against the Obligatory Contour Principle

Kenyang

linguistics

This paper discusses tone patterns in Kenyang nouns that appear to violate the Obligatory Contour Principle.

Tone in Kenyang Noun Phrases

Kenyang

linguistics

My M.A. Thesis analyzes Kenyang tone within the framework of autosegmental phonology.

Phonology of Kenyang

Kenyang

linguistics

Analysis of Kenyang within the framework of structural phonology.

Sociolinguistic survey of Kenyang and Denya

Kenyang

sociolinguistics

linguistics

Survey of speaker’s attitudes about dialect differences.

Cognate rate calculation program: COG User’s Guide

Kenyang

linguistics

tools

User Guide for an application to calculate cognate rates for dialect surveys.

Linguistic survey of the Nyang languages

Kenyang

linguistics

Dialect survey of Kenyang, Denya, and Kitwii.