Tom Emerson

t...@dreamersrealm.net

I am a Software Architect at Gerson Lehrman Group, working out the Boston office, concentrating on search and knowledge-discovery applications. Before joining GLG I was a software architect and computational linguist in Basis Technology's Products R&D group.

Some of my publications and presentations are available online.

I'm a member of the ACM, ACL, and the ANS.

Some of my interests include, in no particular order:

• Spending time with my wife, kids, and dog
• Reading (history, foreign fiction, biography, sci-fi, fantasy)
• Studying (human) languages, living and dead (Old Norse and Middle Egyptian right now.)
  • Currently I am proofreading the scanned and OCRed text of Cleasby and Vigfusson's An Icelandic-English Dictionary.
    I have written a set of Emacs functions to help with the editing, and a Python script to convert the markup to LaTeX.
• Photography (primarily medium format, but am dabling in large format and still use 35mm.) I have not jumped on the digital bandwagon, though once in a while I'll use my wife's digital camera.
• Listening to music in a variety of styles, from beboop to hip-hop, death metal to jpop.
• Programming language design and implementation. After spending almost six years professionally working on programming languages at Symantec and Thinking Machines, I've recovered enough to dabble again.
• Playing World of Warcraft. Here's a case where game meets reality. My primary character is a resto Druid in the guild Amicitia on The Scarlet Crusade (note that I recently moved to there from Kael'thas, and in the process had to change her name, which used to be Mathilde.).

Here are some links to things of no interest to anyone:

• My Blog
• Python for Linguistics Programming
• My del.icio.us bookmarks
• My LinkedIn Profile

Some projects I'm working on in my spare time:

• Adding Unicode support to Guile. I know, they are working on it. I'm working on it too. See my blog for details.
• I'm also looking at adding Unicode support to OpenMCL. This is probably going to replace the work I've done with Guile, or may coexist, I don't know.
• A Mac OS X native (as opposed to X Windows) version of Berkeley Logo.

If you want to communicate with me securely, here is my GPG public key. The finger print is:

5819 1940 26C1 C384 F7E6  478E 611E B7AD 0030 3DBF

Oh yeah, I'm a Vermonter, and proud of it.

Here's what I'm listening to: