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Emily M. Bender
Assistant Professor
Director, Professional MA in Computational Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
University of Washington
Office: Padelford A-219
Office phone: +1 (206) 543-6914
Email (preferred contact method): ebender at u dot washington dot edu
Office hours: (Spring quarter) Fri 1-3 & by appointment

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About Me

My primary areas of interest are computational linguistics (especially grammar engineering and NLP), syntax and the study of variation. My language interests include (Standard) English, AAVE, French, Japanese, Mandarin, ASL, and Malayalam.

My current research projects include the LinGO Grammar Matrix, an open-source toolkit designed to jump-start the development of broad-coverage precision implemented grammars of diverse languages. The Grammar Matrix is developed in the context of the DELPH-IN collaboration.

I received my PhD from the Linguistics Department at Stanford University, where I joined the HPSG and LinGO projects at CSLI. I've also studied at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan.

The topic of my dissertation (available online) is the relationship of non-categorical constraints on sociolinguistic variation to competence grammar. The data I focus on come from the well-studied case of copula absence in African American Vernacular English.

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Last modified: 7/30/04