
Lexicographer, Writer, Editor, Linguistic Researcher
Washington D.C. Metro Area

Lexicographer, Writer, Editor, Linguistic Researcher
Washington D.C. Metro Area
In the last couple of years I have:
1. Written a spec for TTS conversion of British postal addresses
2. Briticized an American pronunciation guide with CD-ROM
3. Americanized a British learners' dictionary of English
4. Written hundreds of definitions for various dictionaries
5. Updated a rhyming dictionary with 80,000 entries
6. Written an ESL self-study book about American slang
7. Mapped senses in WordNet to collocations in a large English database for a major NLP project
8. Briticized various children's ESL products (dictionary, CD-ROM, workbook)
9. Mapped usage of prepositions in FrameNet to corresponding senses in ODE
10. Written a monthly column about language for a worldwide audience of English speakers (on VisualThesaurus.com).
Lexicographic Research: Various large-scale NLP projects involving paraphrasing, machine translation, and artificial intelligence. I have expert knowledge of English grammar, syntax and language patterns, WordNet and FrameNet.
Dictionary Consulting: Do you want to publish a dictionary or other highly formatted reference work and don't know where to start? Ask me.
Lexicography: Defining words and editing definitions, along with all the other tasks of dictionary-making.
lexicography, lexicographical and lexicological research, natural language processing (NLP)
2007: Moritz Thomsen Peace Corps Experience Award for best short description of the Peace Corps experience