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

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

Current Employment
I work for Collexis, Inc., a Columbia, South Carolina-based company specializing in vertical search and knowledge discovery software. I currently work full-time 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]

Demos

English Loanwords in Korean

English Spelling-Pronunciation Alignment

Papers

Lettered Words: Using Roman Letters to Create Words in Chinese
Helena Riha and Kirk Baker
Proceedings 13th International Morphology Meeting. Vienna

Multilingual Animacy Classification by Sparse Logistic Regression
Kirk Baker and Chris Brew
Accepted. Ohio State Working Papers in Linguistics.

Dissertation: Multilingual Distributional Lexical Similarity

Statistical Identification of English Loanwords in Korean Using Automatically Generated Training Data
Kirk Baker and Chris Brew
The Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008). Marrakech, Morocco. May 28-30, 2008.

Chip Gerfen and Kirk Baker. Production and perception of glottalized vowels in Coatzospan Mixtec. Journal of Phonetics. 33(3):311-334. July 2005.

Kirk Baker, Ashley Mckenzie, Alan Biermann and Gert Webelhuth. Constraining user response via multimodal dialog interface. International Journal of Speech Technology. 7(4):251-258. October 2004.

Kirk Baker. Prosodic structure and perception of Korean domain-initial coronal stops. International Journal of Korean Linguistics. 11:119-132. 2002.

Singular Value Decomposition Tutorial