Kirk Baker Homepage
Kirk Baker, PhD
kbaker@lin g.osu.edu
The Ohio State University, 2008
Department of Linguistics

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bakerkirk

Specialization
Statistical Language Processing; Text Mining; Computational Lexical Semantics; Machine Learning; Scalable NLP Systems

Professional Service
Since 2011 I've been on the editorial board of the open-access Open Journal of Modern Linguistics.

Work

I'm Director of Technical Development at i-Cubed Analytics in Columbia, Maryland, a company which evolved from The Zerhouni Group, where I was Manager of Computational Linguistics (July 2010 - January 2012).

Before that (April 2010 - July 2010) I was Senior Consultant in the Research and Healthcare Services group at Attain in Washington, DC.

Before that (March 2008 - April 2010) I worked for Collexis, Inc. as Software Consultant/Data Analyst on a text classification project called the Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization Project (RCDC) at the National Institutes of Health.

Data

English-Korean Transliteration List [Please cite as: Baker, Kirk. 2008. English-Korean Transliteration List (v0.1). Electronic document. http://purl.oclc.org/net/kbaker/data]

Papers

  1. Which are the best features for automatic verb classification: a corpus study of Levin's verb classification.
    Jianguo Li, Kirk Baker and Chris Brew
    Submitted. Journal of Linguistic Issues in Language Technology
  2. Multilingual Animacy Classification by Sparse Logistic Regression
    Kirk Baker and Chris Brew
    Accepted. Ohio State Working Papers in Linguistics.
  3. Lettered Words: Using Roman Letters to Create Words in Chinese
    Helena Riha and Kirk Baker
    In Variation and Change in Morphology, Rainer, Franz, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Dieter Kastovsky and Hans Christian Luschützky (eds.) John Benjamins. 2010.
  4. An Interactive Automatic Document Classification Prototype
    Kirk Baker, Archna Bhandari and Rao Thotakura
    Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, 30 -33. Washington, D.C. October 23, 2009.
  5. Statistical Identification of English Loanwords in Korean Using Automatically Generated Training Data [Corrected Reference]
    Kirk Baker and Chris Brew
    In Proceedings of The Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), 1159-1163. Marrakech, Morocco. May 28-30, 2008.
  6. Singular Value Decomposition Tutorial
    Kirk Baker
    Electronic document. 2005.
  7. Production and perception of glottalized vowels in Coatzospan Mixtec
    Chip Gerfen and Kirk Baker
    Journal of Phonetics. 33(3):311-334. July 2005.
  8. Constraining user response via multimodal dialog interface
    Kirk Baker, Ashley Mckenzie, Alan Biermann and Gert Webelhuth
    International Journal of Speech Technology. 7(4):251-258. October 2004.
  9. Prosodic structure and perception of Korean domain-initial coronal stops
    Kirk Baker
    International Journal of Korean Linguistics. 11:119-132. 2002.
  10. Semantic and Dialogic Annotation for Automated Multilingual Customer Service
    Hilda Hardy, Kirk Baker, Hélène Maynard, Laurence Devillers, Sophie Rosset and Tomek Strzalkowski
    In ISCA Eurospeech, Geneva, 2003.

  11. Multi-layer Dialogue Annotation for Automated Multilingual Customer Service
    Hilda Hardy, Kirk Baker, Laurence Devillers, Lori Lamel, Sophie Rosset, Tomek Strzalkowski, Cristi Ursu and Nick Webb
    In Proceedings of the ISLE Workshop on Dialogue Tagging for Multi-Modal Human Computer Interaction, Edinburgh, 2002.

  12. Segmental and Prosodically-Governed Delateralization
    Soo Jung Kim and Kirk Baker
    In Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics VIII, S. Kuno et al. eds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 152–166, 1999.

Dissertation: Multilingual Distributional Lexical Similarity