Emily M. Bender, Faculty Director, CLMS and Lab Director, Computational Linguistics Laboratory.

My primary interests are in multilingual grammar engineering and cyberinfrastructure for linguistics. I am the PI of the Grammar Matrix project. I also maintain the Cyberling Blog.

Brandon Graves, System Administrator.

I keep the CLMA computing cluster running. I also maintain Knoppix+LKB, a bootable CD and VirtualBox appliance with the LKB suite of grammar development tools.

Rob Komjathy, CLMA

I got my bachelor's in Marketing from Western Michigan University and worked for a few years before deciding it was time for a career change. I've studied German for a fairly long time, and have also spent some time with Dutch, Italian, Lithuanian and Latin. I'm going with the "open mind" approach to this whole program, I don't know exactly what interests me the most, but I'm sure it'll become clearer as time goes on. My interests sway like a pendulum sometimes, but the things I enjoy most are reading, video games, playing guitar, and dancing Lindy Hop.

Joshua Lutes, CLMA

I received my bachelor's degree in computer science from Brigham Young University. I enjoy NLP in general and I'm not sure exactly which part appeals to me the most yet. I also enjoy knitting, making wooden puzzles, and crosswords.

Kelly Peterson , CLMA

I received my BS in Computer Science from the University of Utah. I have wanted to work in Linguistics for years now and am interested in Language Documentation, Cyberinfrastructure, and CALL. I speak French and Spanish and live to travel. In my spare time I enjoy scuba diving, mountain biking, teaching English and playing guitar.

Glenn Slayden, graduate student

Joshua Crowgey, General Linguistics

Currently [2011] working on representing negation phenomena in the Grammar Matrix

Michael Wayne Goodman, CL Ph.D. student
Researching Deep Lexical Acquisition and Grammar Development. When I'm not working I like to cook and travel (actually, I do that when I AM working, too).
CLMA, Summer 2009. Thesis: Egad: Efficiently Evaluating and Extracting Errors from Deep Grammars
BS Computer Science, Minor in Japanese at Oregon State University, Summer 2007.

Chad Mills, CLMA

I received my BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Computer Engineering in 2006 at the University of Arizona. I am currently working at Microsoft on detecting abusive activity across Windows Live properties, and am a part-time CLMA student. I'm most interested in a combination of information extraction and semantics, but find applications of most statistics-based algorithms interesting. Outside of work, I currently enjoy playing strategy board games, watching The Big Bang Theory, playing racquetball, reading (fiction with engaging plots, biographies of scientists, learning), listening to lectures, going to movies, writing simple mobile apps I'll find useful myself, and driving.

Norah Hogoboom, CLMS

I received my B.A. in Linguistics from the UW. I grew up in Berkeley, California but I’ve lived in Washington so long I’m almost a native. I have a small "hobby farm" in the Snoqualmie Valley with my extended family, including numerous cats, chickens and a dog. I have a barn, a tractor, and a log-splitter, but I only was able to upgrade from dial-up in 2010. I was the test lead for Microsoft Flight Simulator for many years before it was sadly cancelled by Microsoft in 2009. I am currently the test lead for SQL Server international testing. I love languages, linguistics (especially phonology and historical linguistics) as well as aviation and technology. [Image is a self-portrait of myself reflected in a P-51 Mustang at Paine Field]