I am currently in my fourth year of the Linguistics PhD program here
at Ohio State. I am working on several projects, the most
important of which is my dissertation work - creating an English
language spellchecker for people who are learning English as a second
language. I very much enjoy teaching at the university level and hope
to continue doing so upon completion of my PhD.
Teaching Schedule
Spring 2009 - LINGUISTICS 201: Introduction to Linguistics
Summer 2009 - SLIYS (Summer Linguistic Institute for Youth Scholars)
An outreach program for central Ohio high school students
Autumn 2009 - LINGUISTICS 484: Codemaking and
Codebreaking
Publications
(2008) Hovermale, DJ and Scott Martin. Developing an Annotation
Scheme for ELL Spelling Errors. MCLC-5 (Midwest Computational
Linguistics Colloquium) East Lansing, Michigan, USA, May
10-11, 2008.
(2008) Hovermale, DJ. SCALE: Spelling Correction Adapted for Learners of
English CALICO 2008 ICALL SIG (Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning Special Interest Group) pre-conference workshop, San Francisco, California, USA, March 18-19, 2008.
(2007) Pestian, John P., Christopher Brew, Pawel
Matykiewicz, DJ Hovermale, Neil Johnson, K. Bretonnel Cohen, and
Wlodzislaw Duch. Multi-label Classification of Clinical Free Text: Using a Shared
Task Model to Develop Resources and Refine Algorithms. Ohio
Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics (OCCBio). Oxford, Ohio, USA, July 9-11, 2007.
