C · R · C · L  Inc.      Center for Research in Computational Linguistics, Incorporated

MISSION       FUNDING       OUTREACH       ASSOCIATES       2004       2005       CRCL Inc. Associates

CRCL Inc. Associates are established professionals in linguistics and computer science who support our mission, share our interests, and from time to time consult for or advise us on topics of mutual concern. Our associates typically spend a considerable amount of time each year in Southeast Asia, usually doing fieldwork in linguistics, or assisting local open-source software development projects. They include:

Mark Alves (Ph.D. U Hawai'i) Dr. Alves specializes in Vietnamese linguistics and second language acquisition, with additional interests in Chinese and the minority Mon-Khmer languages of Vietnam. He has published extensively on Vietnamese historical linguistics, focusing on the origins of the Vietnamese language, the history of Vietnamese-Chinese language contact, and the linguistic typology of Vietnam as a borderline Southeast-Asian/Chinese language. He is currently exploring issues of grammaticalization within Vietnamese, with particular attention to Sino-Vietnamese grammaticalized vocabulary.

James Clark Founder of the Thai Open Source Software Center, he has been involved with SGML and XML for more than 10 years, contributing to many standards, creating a considerable body of open source software, and being awarded the industry's first XML Cup. He was technical lead of the XML 1.0 Recommendation, editor of the XPath and XSLT Recommendations, and main author of the DSSSL (ISO 10179) standard. Currently, he is chair of the OASIS RELAX NG TC and editor of the RELAX NG specification. He also founded, and supports, a non-profit K-12 school intended to provide new models for rural Thai education.

Allan Cooper (Ph.D. MIT) Dr. Cooper researched mathematical models for many years at the Los Alamos National Laboratories before moving on to software modeling and design with Microsoft Inc. In 1993 he founded Digital Word, a software research and consulting company in Bellevue, Washington, that specializes in the design of Web-accessible data resources. Dr Cooper has been closely associated with CRCL since its inception.

Richard Kunst (Ph.D. UC Berkeley) Dr. Kunst holds a B.A. in Chinese Studies from Yale University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Chinese Language and Literature from UC Berkeley. He taught both Chinese and Japanese language and literature at Duke University (1975 - 1991); he is also Executive Director of the Humanities Computing Laboratory, the successor to the DUCALL (Duke University Computer-Assisted Language Learning) Project, and is Adjunct Professor of Asian Languages at Duke University, also in Durham. At present Dr. Kunst is technical lead on the SOAS Wa Dictionary & Internet Database for Minority Languages of Burma project.

Stephen Morey (Ph.D. ANU) Dr. Morey is a Research Fellow of the Research Center for Linguistic Typology, Latrobe University. His research interests focus on the Tai languages, particularly the Shan-related languages found in the Assam region of Northeastern India, as well as Turung, long thought to be Tai-related, but actually a Tibeto-Burman language similar to Singpho, and spoken in the same region. Dr. Morey has also done extensive work on font design, and on the initiation of printing and reading programs for endangered languages in the region.

Pongskorn Saipetch (Ph.D. UCLA) Dr. Saipetch is founder of Atrium Software, a research-driven Bangkok-based software firm. He developed Thai OCR, and has managed many large-scale information retrieval and database projects, including the Thai Democracy Project (a record of all documents associated with the creation of the 1997 constitution), and the Thai Legal Code Database, as well as a number of ground-breaking Web-based Java applications. Dr. Saipetch teaches scientific research and software engineering seminars at Mahidol University.

Paul Sidwell (Ph.D. U Melbourne) Dr. Sidwell is a Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics, Australian National University, and is a Collaborating Scientist with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropolgy, Liepzig. He has done wide-ranging fieldwork in Vietnam, and Laos, and has an extensive record of teaching and publication on Mon-Khmer languages, including five books, with a particular focus on the reconstruction of the Bahnaric and Katuic families. He serves as an editor of ANU's Pacific Linguistics publishing house, and established their XML metatagging standards for electronic dictionary submission and publication. Dr. Sidwell is director of the Mon-Khmer Comparative Dictionary project, partially supported by CRCL Inc. and has founded or co-founded several cultural preservation projects in Laos, including the Paksong Ethnic Literacy Promotion and Paksong Cultural Centre projects.

Justin Watkins (Ph.D. SOAS/London) Dr. Watkins is a Lecturer in Burmese/Myanmar at the University of London School of African and Oriential Studies in Burmese/Myanmar. His research interests include Burmese language and modern literature, descriptive and historical linguistics of Mon-Khmer and Tibeto-Burman languages, tone and register languages, experimental, acoustic and practical phonetics, computer lexicography, and literary translation. Dr. Watkins founded and directs the SOAS Wa Dictionary & Internet Database for Minority Languages of Burma project, which is compiling dictionaries, text corpora, and associated software.