Automatic cognate and loanword detection https://www.arlis.umd.edu/ en C. Anton Rytting, PhD https://www.arlis.umd.edu/about-arlis/our-people/c-anton-rytting-phd <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--title--rss.html.twig * field--node--title--staff.html.twig x field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--staff.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/node/templates/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <span>C. Anton Rytting, PhD</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/node/templates/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--uid--rss.html.twig * field--node--uid--staff.html.twig x field--node--uid.html.twig * field--node--staff.html.twig * field--uid.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/node/templates/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <span> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/user/templates/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" about="/user/1" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">admin</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/user/templates/username.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/node/templates/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--created--rss.html.twig * field--node--created--staff.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--staff.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/node/templates/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span>Mon, 11/30/2020 - 12:10</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/node/templates/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/navigation/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-staff-bio--rss.html.twig * field--node--field-staff-bio--staff.html.twig * field--node--field-staff-bio.html.twig * field--node--staff.html.twig * field--field-staff-bio.html.twig * field--text-long.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-staff-bio field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Dr. Anton Rytting is an Associate Research Scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park, </span></span></span><span><a href="https://www.arlis.umd.edu/"><span><span><span>Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security</span></span></span></a></span><span><span><span> (ARLIS). He has taught for UMD’s </span></span></span><span><a href="https://ischool.umd.edu/"><span><span><span>College of Information Science</span></span></span></a></span><span><span><span> (Maryland’s iSchool), </span></span></span><span><a href="https://linguistics.umd.edu/"><span><span><span>Linguistics Department</span></span></span></a></span><span><span><span>, and the </span></span></span><span><a href="https://www.cs.umd.edu/"><span><span><span>Computer Science Department</span></span></span></a></span><span><span><span>. Dr. Rytting is a computational linguist with </span></span></span><span><span><span><span>over 12 years of professional experience in USG-funded research, including </span></span></span></span><span><span><span>corpus normalization and quality control, automatic cognate/loanword detection, and natural language processing for under-resourced languages and social media text.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Dr. Rytting has supported Intelligence Community personnel by leading the development of the University of Maryland’s “<em>Did You Mean…?</em>” (DYM) tool, which supports error-tolerant search of lexical resources, and the related </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.umventures.org/technologies/method-enabling-non-programmers-develop-weighted-edit-distance-error-models-error"><span><span><span>DYM toolkit</span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span>, which allows non-programmers to develop error-tolerant lexical search capabilities for themselves. Dr. Rytting also served as the site Co-Principal Investigator for the UMD contribution to the testing and evaluation (T&amp;E) team for the </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/babel"><span><span><span><span>IARPA Babel program</span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span>, as the Principal Investigator (PI) two more recent projects: one normalizing speech transcriptions across dialects for colloquial Arabic, the other collecting a new corpus and developing language-specific features in social media text predictive of certain personality and cognitive traits.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Dr. Rytting is currently collaborating with Dr. </span></span></span><span><a href="https://ischool.umd.edu/about/directory/susannah-paletz"><span><span><span>Susannah Paletz</span></span></span></a></span><span><span><span> (PI) and other University of Maryland researchers on a </span></span></span><span><a href="https://minerva.defense.gov/"><span><span><span>Minerva Research Initiative</span></span></span></a></span><span><span><span> grant to study the role of emotional content and narrative in predicting the rate at which social media posts are shared. More details on this project are available at </span></span></span><span><a href="https://emotionsinsocialmedia.umd.edu/"><span><span><span>Emotions in Social Media</span></span></span></a></span><span><span><span>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-staff-picture--rss.html.twig * field--node--field-staff-picture--staff.html.twig * field--node--field-staff-picture.html.twig * field--node--staff.html.twig * field--field-staff-picture.html.twig * field--image.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-staff-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_formatter' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/fields/image-formatter.html.twig' --> <div class="item-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/system/templates/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/2021-01/Rytting_.jpg" alt="C. Anton Rytting " loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/system/templates/image.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/fields/image-formatter.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-staff-highlight--rss.html.twig * field--node--field-staff-highlight--staff.html.twig * field--node--field-staff-highlight.html.twig * field--node--staff.html.twig * field--field-staff-highlight.html.twig * field--string-long.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-staff-highlight field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item">Design and development of “Did You Mean…?” technology for assisted dictionary lookup by language<br /> analysts, beginning with research in an Iraqi Arabic version and culminating with turn-over of operational systems for multiple languages to USG (2008-2015)</div> <div class="field__item">Support of the IARPA Babel program’s testing and evaluation team by supervising (as site Co-PI) the quality control and quality assurance of transcriptions for speech corpora, and assisting in keyword selection for evaluation of spoken term detection, in 25 typologically diverse languages (2012-2015).</div> <div class="field__item">Development of tools and resources for Arabic dialect/speech processing, including the Arabic Data Science Toolkit (ADST), techniques for normalizing speech transcriptions, identification of gaps in colloquial language coverage, and on-site evaluation of operational audio search tools (2016-2018).</div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-staff-papers--rss.html.twig * field--node--field-staff-papers--staff.html.twig * field--node--field-staff-papers.html.twig * field--node--staff.html.twig * field--field-staff-papers.html.twig * field--string-long.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-staff-papers field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item">Marvi, S., Novak, V., Morrison, M., Gordon, R., Wood, T., Oates, S., Rytting, C.A., Jones, K., Janzen, S., &amp; Maxwell, M. (2021). COVID Needles in Social Media Haystacks: Identifying Cross-Language Longitudinal Changes in Pandemic-Related Discussion Topics. 2021 IdeaS Conference.</div> <div class="field__item">Stepanova, N., Rytting, C.A., Golonka, E., &amp; Paletz, S. (2021). Predicting Popularity of Polish Facebook Posts Using Author and Content Features. International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS).</div> <div class="field__item">Rodrigues, P., Novak, V., Rytting, C.A., Yelle, J., Boutz, J., and Buckwalter, T. 2018. Arabic Data Science Toolkit: An API for Arabic Language Feature Extraction. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). Miyazaki, Japan: European Language Resources Association (ELDA).</div> <div class="field__item">Rodrigues, P. and Rytting, C.A. 2012. Typing Race Games as a Method to Create Spelling Error Corpora. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), Istanbul, Turkey: European Language Resources Association (ELDA).</div> <div class="field__item">Rytting, C.A., Rodrigues, P., Buckwalter, T., Zajic, D., Hirsh, B. Carnes, J., Lynn, N., Wayland, S., Taylor, C., White, J., Blake,C., Browne, E., Miller, C., &amp; Purvis, T. 2011. Spelling Correction for Dialectal Arabic Dictionary Lookup. ACM Transactions of Asian Language Information Processing, 10(1). NY: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).</div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-staff-name--rss.html.twig * field--node--field-staff-name--staff.html.twig * field--node--field-staff-name.html.twig * field--node--staff.html.twig * field--field-staff-name.html.twig * field--string.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-staff-name field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">C. Anton Rytting</div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-staff-email--rss.html.twig * field--node--field-staff-email--staff.html.twig * field--node--field-staff-email.html.twig * field--node--staff.html.twig * field--field-staff-email.html.twig * field--email.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-staff-email field--type-email field--label-hidden field__item">crytting@arlis.umd.edu</div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-staff-expertise--rss.html.twig * field--node--field-staff-expertise--staff.html.twig * field--node--field-staff-expertise.html.twig * field--node--staff.html.twig * field--field-staff-expertise.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-staff-expertise field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/46" hreflang="en">Natural language processing (NLP) for under-resourced languages</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/75" hreflang="en">Analysis of social media text</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/8" hreflang="en">Arabic (Modern Standard and colloquial varieties)</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/101" hreflang="en">Transcription and corpus normalization for speech recognition</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/77" hreflang="en">Automatic cognate and loanword detection</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/94" hreflang="en">Language acquisition</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/83" hreflang="en">Computer-assisted language learning (CALL)</a></div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-staff-position--rss.html.twig * field--node--field-staff-position--staff.html.twig * field--node--field-staff-position.html.twig * field--node--staff.html.twig * field--field-staff-position.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-staff-position field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/102" hreflang="en">Associate Research Scientist</a></div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-staff-type--rss.html.twig * field--node--field-staff-type--staff.html.twig * field--node--field-staff-type.html.twig * field--node--staff.html.twig * field--field-staff-type.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-staff-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/119" hreflang="en">Researcher</a></div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-staff-education--rss.html.twig * field--node--field-staff-education--staff.html.twig * field--node--field-staff-education.html.twig * field--node--staff.html.twig * field--field-staff-education.html.twig * field--string.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-staff-education field--type-string field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item">Ph.D., Linguistics, The Ohio State University (2007)</div> <div class="field__item">B.A., Linguistics, summa cum laude, university honors, Brigham Young University (2000)</div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-first-name--rss.html.twig * field--node--field-first-name--staff.html.twig * field--node--field-first-name.html.twig * field--node--staff.html.twig * field--field-first-name.html.twig * field--string.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-first-name field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">First Name</div> <div class="field__item">Anton</div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-last-name--rss.html.twig * field--node--field-last-name--staff.html.twig * field--node--field-last-name.html.twig * field--node--staff.html.twig * field--field-last-name.html.twig * field--string.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-last-name field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Last Name</div> <div class="field__item">Rytting</div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-mission--rss.html.twig * field--node--field-mission--staff.html.twig * field--node--field-mission.html.twig * field--node--staff.html.twig * field--field-mission.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-mission field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/255" hreflang="en">Cognitive Security</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/260" hreflang="en">Language &amp; Culture</a></div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/gavias_meipaly/templates/field.html.twig' --> Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:10:38 +0000 admin 87 at https://www.arlis.umd.edu