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John Nerbonne is Professor of Information Science at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He received an MSc. in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from The Ohio State University and worked at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (1985-90) and The German Research Center in Artificial Intelligence (1990-93) before becoming professor of computational linguistics in Groningen in 1993, a faculty member in Linguistics and Computer Science. He has worked on grammar implementations in HPSG, lexical inheritance hierarchies, and computational simulations of language acquisition as well as methods for measuring the distance between language varieties. Recent publications include (with William Kretzschmar) “Introducing Computational Methods in Dialectometry” and (with Peter Kleiweg) “Lexical Distance in LAMSAS,” both in Computational Methods in Dialectometry (special issue of Computers and the Humanities); and (with Wilbert Heeringa and Peter Kleiweg) “Edit Distance and Dialect Proximity,” in Time Warps, String Edits and Macromolecules: The Theory and Practice of Sequence Comparison (CSLI).

Dialectology: Aggregate Dialectal Variation | LSA.107
MW 10:10-11:50
Three Week Course | First Session