Edwin Ko
Washington, DC 20007
ek684@georgetown.edu
EDUCATION
M.S.
Georgetown University
Linguistics; concentration in General Linguistics
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Department of Linguistics
expected 2016
B.A.
Boston University
Linguistics with Minors in French and Computer Science
School of Arts & Sciences, Department of Linguistics
2014
Research interests: Corpus linguistics, syntax, phonology, language variation and change, digital &
computational linguistics, language revitalization.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Georgetown University
Research Assistant
Washington, DC
Nov. 2014 – Present
Preserving and Enhancing Access to the Survey of Zapotec and Chatino Languages
§ Construct an online Lachixío-Zapotec-Spanish English dictionary.
§ Implement an annotation interface to facilitate collaborative efforts towards linguistic reconstruction.
§ Organize and prepare existing research materials towards its publication.
Boston University
Research Assistant
Boston, MA
May 2014 – Present
Documenting Endangered Languages Project
§ Create and publish language learning Android mobile application for Northern Pomo and Kashaya
Pomo, two Native American languages of Northern California.
§ Develop language learning web applications for Northern Pomo.
§ Construct multi-layered corpora and a lexical database for Northern Pomo.
TEACHING
Georgetown University
Language and Society: Language Planning, Policy and Revitalization
Guest Lecturer
Summer 2015
Georgetown University
GLSA Python Tutorials (Beginner & Intermediate)
Organizer and Presenter
Fall 2014, Spring 2015
Boston University – Department of Computer Science
CS 111: Introduction to Computer Science I
Course Assistant for Dr. David G. Sullivan
Fall 2013, Spring 2014
SKILLS
Programming/Software
§ Java; Python; HTML/CSS; PHP; JavaScript; MySQL; R; Processing; C; Eclipse; Praat; Audacity; Weka
Languages
§ Chinese Cantonese (native); French (moderate); Chinese Mandarin (moderate); Japanese
(conversational); American Sign Language (conversational); Medumba (research); Northern Pomo
(research); Lachixío Zapotec (research)
Relevant Coursework
§ Natural Language Processing; Artificial Intelligence; Software Engineering; Computational Audio;
Computer Systems; Web Application Development; Computational Corpus Linguistics; Non-standard
Syntactic Annotation; Analyzing Language Data with R