30.1711, Staff Letter: Everett Green

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-1711. Fri Apr 19 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.1711, Staff Letter: Everett Green

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Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everett at linguistlist.org>
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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 13:52:01
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Staff Letter: Everett Green

 
Hello Linguist Listers,

I hope my message finds all of you well. This is Everett Green checking in.
I'm the calls and conferences editor for the LINGUIST List. If you have sent a
conference call, program or announcement through our website, it was almost
certainly posted by me. I'm also responsible for editing submissions to FYI's,
Media, Software, Discussions, Queries and Summaries. This may seem like a
disproportionate amount of work but these areas don't receive quite as many
submissions as Calls & Conferences, hence my being responsible for all of them
at once. I have had very pleasant interactions with many of you in emails and
I always enjoy helping top-notch researchers like yourselves in getting the
word out about your conferences, calls for papers and other important pieces
of information.

Working on conferences gives me a very interesting snapshot of the kinds of
work that people are doing within linguistic sub-fields and in
interdisciplinary spaces. I must say that the sheer breadth and scope of the
work being done is quite vast. So vast in fact, that a person could easily
dedicate their life to studying the topics and questions addressed at a
single, very specialized conference, not to mention any of the more broadly
focused conferences which can cover countless numbers of topics. This bird's
eye view of the field of linguistics is an unofficial perk of the job since it
has very much assisted me in deciding which area of research I would like to
contribute to. Though I have not fully committed to a particular subject of
study (there are so many interesting fields!), I have been able to narrow my
preferences down in very meaningful ways thanks to my job here at the LINGUIST
List.

Outside of the LINGUIST List, I am a dual PhD student in Computational
Linguistics and Cognitive Science. I have currently been studying how
artificial neural networks can be used for better natural language processing
and how we can apply that language processing to give our computers a superior
understanding of natural languages. Ideally, in the future, we would be able
to interact optimally with our computers(or robots) through natural language
alone. This wouldn't just make things more convenient for the average computer
user but it would also increase accessibility for those who cannot currently
use computers due to disabilities.

In terms of recreation, I have many interests though most have been shelved in
the pursuit of higher goals. The interests that have managed to survive the
culling are music and video games which fit together quite well since music is
integral to video game development. The latter subject actually has minor
applications for my research as well. Before attending graduate school, I had
done some recreational video game design with my friends and gained some
useful programming skills in the process. As duolingo has shown, gamification
of language acquisition is quite popular among the general public and I
believe that it is another tool that can be leveraged to help researchers
collect data and publish more robust studies when utilized carefully.

I will have worked at the LINGUIST List for two years come May and I can
easily say that it is one of the best jobs that I have ever worked in. None of
it would be possible without the donations that all of you provide us with and
I sincerely thank all of you for your continued support of our work. I only
hope that I can repay the favor by contributing research that makes all of
your lives healthier and happier. If you haven't donated and you would like
to, you can find our donation page here. Thanks so much for taking time out of
your busy day to read about me and I hope to keep assisting all of you in
whatever way that I can here at the LINGUIST List.

Best wishes,
Everett Green






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