Kyle Gorman
Department of Linguistics
Institute for Research in Cognitive Science

University of Pennsylvania
kgorman@ling.upenn.edu

This summer I'm interning at ISI at USC with Kevin Knight.

Research interests:

• phonetics (disfluency, prosody)
• modeling acquisition, variation and change
• NLP and statistical/computational tools

Stuff right now:

• Unsupervised methods for NLP
• rewriting the SWIPE' algorithm in C
• acoustics of stress for word segmentation
• hierarchial models for socio-linguistic data

Software/tutorials:

• read Praat datatypes into Python
• automatic speech segmentation (forced alignment) with HTK

"Guy Trebay's article about thinner male models ("The Vanishing Point," Thursday Styles, Feb. 7), struck a chord with me, though a different one than I believe he intended. Rather than viewing this trend as the analogue to too-thin female models, I found it liberating as a 6-foot, 150-pound male who has no hope of measuring up to the beefcake standard." Kyle Gorman, Philadelphia. New York Times, letter to the editor, Feb. 10th, 2008.