Deryle W. Lonsdale

4039 JFSB

801-422-4067

28 different Linguistics and Linguistic Computing courses taught at BYU (undergraduate and graduate; one cross-listed with Computer Science)
Co-directed English Language Study Abroad in Britain, Summer Term 2010
98 student theses and dissertations advised (43 as chair or referee)
Supervision of dozens of recipients of undergraduate mentoring awards, graduate fellowships, and internships

Computational linguistics, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics
Knowledge-based, statistical, and neural language frameworks
Cognitive modeling of natural language use: cognitive architectures, human sentence processing, human-computer/robot interaction, grounding language, task interactions
Parsing, the syntax/semantics interface, and semantic representation
Analogical modeling and applications
Tools, methods, and resources for lesser-resourced languages
Lexical, speech, morphological, syntactic, and semantic processing of Salish languages
Ontology-based information extraction from free-form and semi-structured text
Speech-based tools for language instruction and oral proficiency evaluation
Computational methods for corpus, dictionary, and terminology resources
Machine learning paradigms for corpus annotation

114 peer-reviewed publications (2 books, 12 book chapters, 21 journal articles, 2 book reviews, 77 conference proceedings)
Authorship: sole (10), undergraduate co-authors (21), graduate co-authors (52), faculty co-authors (27)
18 other publications, lightly/editorially reviewed or based on abstract submission only (1 book, 1 book chapter, 11 conference proceedings, 5 technical reports)
234 professional conference presentations (104 at international venues, 59 at national venues, 71 at regional/local venues)
Presenter ship: sole (93), undergraduate co-presenters (49), graduate co-presenters (57), faculty co-presenters (31)
Co-PI/consultant on 5 major national/international initiatives:
European Union Fifth Framework IST/HLT 3.4.1: Standards-based Access service to multilingual Lexicons and Terminologies (SALT)
US National Science Foundation (NSF) CISE-IDM-IIS-0083127: Target-Based Document-Independent Information Extraction (TIDIE)
US National Science Foundation (NSF) CISE-IIS-0414644: Table Analysis for Semiautomatic Generation of Ontologies (TANGO)
US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) BAA-11-40 BOLT-E: Grounded Language Acquisition
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight #435-2015-1694: Enhancing lexical resources for BC First Nations languages

Affiliated faculty: BYU Native American Studies Program
Adjunct Research Fellow: Neal. A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship (2010-2013)
External reviewer for faculty rank promotion, governmental agency funding proposals (NSF, NWO, SSHRC), 15 journals, 5 full book manuscripts, 25 conferences (many recurrent over the years)
Various pro bono consulting projects with Lushootseed Research, The Tulalip Tribes, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

BYU College of Humanities Ludwig-Weber-Siebach Professorship award (2007-2012)
BYU College of Humanities James L. Barker Lectureship (2011-2012)
Departmental program coordinator (undergraduate and graduate), faculty rank advancement committee member, graduate admissions committee, course scheduling coordinator