32.3361, Staff Letter: Nils

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-3361. Tue Oct 26 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.3361, Staff Letter: Nils

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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 22:15:56
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Staff Letter: Nils

 
Hello all,

My name is Nils. My main role here at the LINGUIST List is to work on the new
website (https://new.linguistlist.org/). This has been a long but worthwhile
project, and it has given us an opportunity to upgrade our whole process along
with the visuals. This, by extension, allows us to serve you, our readers even
better. I also help maintain our various servers and other projects, such as
geoling and multitree.

Besides working at the LINGUIST List, I am a PhD student at Indiana
University, our host institution. My primary interest, in a very broad sense,
is computational methods for low-resource languages and language
documentation. Most of the work I've done in that sense is with speech
recognition specifically, and I'm currently working on branching out into
Computer Aided Language Learning as well. I’ve still got a lot of work before
I get to dissertating, but it wouldn’t be possible at all without my job at
the LINGUIST List.

In terms of my life outside academia, my primary hobbies are rock climbing,
fencing, and video games, though current circumstances have forced me to
narrow that down to pretty much just video games, unfortunately. They do a
good job of keeping me sane while I work on projects and classes. I’ve also
been playing violin for 20 years, and I’m fluent in German thanks to attending
an immersion elementary school. When I'm visiting my parents, I also enjoy
driving and working on our 1924 Ford Model T, which I sadly cannot bring to
school with me.

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