C. Anton Rytting
The
Department of Linguistics
222 Oxley,
Language acquisition, speech recognition, computational models of
language processing, machine learning, Greek, Arabic.
2007 Ph.D.
in Linguistics
The Ohio State University,
Dissertation
Title: Preserving Subsegmental Variation in Modeling
Word Segmentation
Advisors: Chris Brew and Eric Fosler-Lussier
2000 B.A.
in Linguistics, university honors,
summa cum laude
Brigham Young University,
Minors
in Classics, Computers in the Humanities
Honors
Thesis Title: Semantic Class Disambiguation in Natural Language Soar
Advisor: Deryle
Lonsdale
2001-2004
NSF
Graduate Research Fellowship (3-year award: tuition + stipend)
2000 Phi
Kappa Phi National Fellowship (1-year award)
2000-2001, Dean’s Distinguished University Fellowship
(3-year award: tuition + stipend)
2004-2006 (The highest university fellowship
award at The Ohio State University)
1998, 1999, 2000 Three
$1000 stipends for independent research:
1998 Infinitive
Clauses and Small Clauses in Classical Latin Prose
1999 An
Empirical Test of an Analogical Approach to the k/Ø Alternation in Turkish
2000 WordNet and NL-Soar: Fitting the Lexicon into Cognition
(Awarded by the BYU
Office of Research and Creative Activities)
1998
Latin and Ancient Greek
1994-1995, Presidential
(Ezra Taft Benson) Scholarship (4-year award: tuition + stipend)
1997-2000 (The highest university scholarship
awarded at
1994-95, 97-2000 Robert
C. Byrd Scholarship (4-year award)
Proficiency
in Modern Greek (reading, writing, and speaking)
Reading
knowledge of Latin, Ancient Greek
Intermediate
knowledge of Arabic (Standard written and spoken Egyptian)
Beginning
knowledge of American Sign Language, Spanish
C, Java,
Perl, Prolog, Python
Familiar
with the AT&T
2006 An operator-based account of semantic
processing.
In Acquisition and Representation of Word Meaning: Theoretical and
Computational Perspectives, ed. by
Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni, and Vito Pirrelli, Vol. XXII-XXIII in
series Linguistica Computazionale, pp. 117-137, Pisa/Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali. Co-author: Deryle
Lonsdale.
2002 An empirical test of
Analogical Modeling: The /k/~Ø alternation. In Analogical Modeling: An Exemplar-based
Approach to Language, ed. by Royal Skousen, Deryle Lonsdale, and Dilworth B. Parkinson. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
In preparation Segmenting words from natural speech: Subsegmental
variation in segmental and suprasegmental cues, co-authors:
Chris Brew, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Soundararajan Srinivasan.
In preparation Statistical
word segmentation cues in English and Modern Greek.
2005 An
iota of difference: Attitudes to jod in lexical and social contexts. Journal
of Greek Linguistics, 6, pp. 145-179.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2003 Review
of “Psycholinguistic Studies of Modern Greek: L1 Acquisition and L1/L2 Sentence
Processing.” Journal of Greek
Linguistics, 4, pp. 152-157. Amsterdam/Philadelphia:
John Benjamins.
2006 Finding
the gaps: Applying a connectionist model of word segmentation to noisy
phone-recognized speech data. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech 2006--ICSLP).
2006 Is
recurrence redundant? Revisiting
Allen and Christiansen (1996). In Proceedings of the
28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci
2006).
2005 A cost-benefit analysis of
hybrid phone-manner representations for ASR.
2005 Phonetic
ignorance is bliss: Investigating the effects of phonetic information reduction
on ASR performance. In Proceedings
of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech 2005--Eurospeech),
co-authors: Eric Fosler-Lussier, Soundararajan Srinivasan.
2004 Segment
predictability as a cue in word segmentation: Application to modern
Greek. In Current Themes in
Computational Phonology and Morphology: Seventh Meeting of the
2004 The
listener’s view of style and the lexicon: Attitudes to /i/
and /j/ in lexical and social contexts. In
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Greek Linguistics ed.
by
2004 Greek
word segmentation using minimal information.
In Proceedings
of the Student Research Workshop.
2001 An
operator-based account of semantic processing. In The Acquisition and Representation of
Word Meaning, ed. by Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni, and Vito Pirrelli, pp. 84-92. European Summer School for Logic, Language,
and Information (ESSLLI 2001), co-author: Deryle
Lonsdale.
2001 Integrating
WordNet with NL-Soar. In WordNet
and Other Lexical Resources: Applications, Extensions, and Customizations. Proceedings of NAACL-2001, pp. 162-164. Association for Computational Linguistics, co-author:
Deryle Lonsdale.
1999 Small
clauses and indirect discourse in Latin prose.
In LACUS Forum XXV, ed. by Shin Ja J.
Hwang & Arle R. Lommel,
pp. 443-456.
2007 Modeling
word segmentation without assuming phonemic certainty. Invited talk,
2007 Distributional
cues to word segmentation in Modern Greek. Presented at the 4th Annual OSU
Martin Luther King Day Symposium in Linguistics, The
2007 Modeling
word segmentation without assuming phonemic certainty. Presented at the 81st
Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of
2006 Analogical
change in Greek present and aorist active verbal stems. Presented at The 3rd Annual OSU Martin Luther
King Day Symposium in Linguistics: Analogy in Language Change, The
2004
Statistical
segmental cues for Greek word segmentation.
Presented at the
First Annual
2004 Attitudes
to Modern Greek /i/ and /j/ in lexical and social contexts. 1st Pre-Generals Paper, presented at the (1st)
OSU Martin Luther King Day Greek Mini-conference, The Ohio State University,
2003 Frequency
effects on word final fricative realization in connected speech. Presented at the Mid-Continental Workshop on
Phonology.
2003 An
iota of difference: Phonetic variation within the lexicon. Presented at the Modern Greek
Studies Association.
2002 Patterns
of word stress in Modern Greek. 2nd Year
Colloquium Presentation, The
2000 Using
WordΝet to build a semantic representation. Presented at the Twentieth Soar Conference;
2007 Lecturer
for Linguistics 615: Psycholinguistics (Winter Quarter);
Linguistics
201: Introduction to Language (Spring Quarter)
OSU
Department of Linguistics,
Primary instructor fully responsible for syllabus, preparation,
teaching, and grading.
2005 Teaching
Assistant for Linguistics 384: Language and Computers (Summer Quarter)
OSU
Department of Linguistics,
Primary instructor fully responsible for syllabus, preparation,
teaching, and grading.
2004-2006 Research
Assistant for Eric Fosler-Lussier
OSU
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Member of the ASAT research team. Presented my own and fellow RAs’ research at
a multi-university ASAT planning meeting in Atlanta, GA. Presented joint research
with Dr. Fosler-Lussier at Interspeech 2006 and
1999-2001 Research
and Teaching Assistant for Deryle Lonsdale
BYU
Department of Linguistics,
Research
and development of Natural Language Soar; assisted with linking WordNet 1.6 to NL-Soar and minimizing resultant
ambiguities. Main grader for Linguistics
330; conducted study sessions for midterm and final.
2000 Writing
Fellow (Peer Tutor) under Beth Hedengren
Writing
Across the Curriculum (WAC),
Tutored
students in the writing portion of an introductory Classical Civilization
course, Winter Semester 2000.
1998 Language Instructor
(Modern Greek)
Taught language and
missionary-oriented skills in Modern Greek to volunteer missionaries for the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Summer
1998.
1997 Grader/Research Assistant for Victor Ludlow
BYU Department
of Ancient Scripture,
Grader
for a 300-level course with additional research duties, Fall
1997.
Involvement inside the
2004-2006 Member, Speech and Language Technology Lab (Department
of Computer Science and Engineering)
2003-2006 Member,
Laboratory and Computing Committee (Department of Linguistics)
This committee
is responsible for purchasing and maintaining computer and experimental
equipment within the OSU Department of Linguistics, as well as providing
tutorials for interested students on the use of equipment and essential
software packages. The committee
consists of faculty, students, and staff representatives.
2002-2006 Member, OSU Cognitive Science Graduate Student
Discussion Group (GradCog)
2002-2003 Treasurer, OSU Student Linguistics
Association
2000-2002 Coordinator,
Speakers Committee
Responsible
for coordinating nearly all aspects of invited speakers from other universities
to the OSU Linguistics Department, including scheduling, accommodations,
travel, budget, etc. The Speakers
Committee is entirely student-run.
Involvement outside the
2007 Reviewer, 29th Annual
Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2007)
2007 Reviewer, Second European
Cognitive Science Conference (EuroCogSci07)
2005 Student Volunteer at the
2005 Combined Conference on Human Language Tech-nology
and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT-EMNLP)
2005 Student Volunteer at the
43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
2005 Student Volunteer at the
Second
2005 Reviewer, Second Indian
International Conference of Artificial Intelligence (IICAI)
2003-2005
Instructor, English
Conversation Courses for non-native speakers
2000 Volunteer for English
Conversation Partners (OSU)
2000 Writing tutor,
1998-1999 Note-taker, BYU Services for
Students with Disabilities
1997-1999 Tutor,
1997-1998 President, BYU Linguistics Society
1995-1997 Missionary for the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints (
1994-1995 Co-chair, BYU Linguistics Society
Professional Memberships
Association
for Computational Linguistics (
International
Speech Communication Association (ICSA)
Cognitive
Science Society
Linguistic
Society of