Paul's Homepage

They say there are three reasons people publish a web page: commerce, information, and ego. Guess which one this is.

I am a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. I received a Masters from the Department of Computer Science in May of 2002 and a PhD from the Department of Linguistics in December of that same year. My dissertation is a statistical (although I use that word with great caution) treatment of the Pali Canon. If you really want to, you can read the abstract and/or the last chapter, which really is the coolest bit of the whole thing.

Since the fall of 2000 I have also been working on the PropBank project with Martha Palmer. You can find some of our papers here. And here you can also look at my CV.

Outside of linguistics, my main interests include dance of all kinds, but especially contra! I also enjoy many kinds of strange music. Somewhat to my surprise, I have found myself in the role of an international authority on handbells.

I hail from Lincoln, Nebraska, originally. Lincoln, despite all its appearances, is actually a pretty cool town. (Don't EVER let my friends back home hear me say that!) Lincoln is the home of the University of Nebraska as well as many other colleges, the Lied Center for the Performing Arts, one of the finest arts centers in the Great Plains, many fine restaurants, some excellent museums including the State Historical Society and Morrill Hall(home to more fossilized mammoths than any other museum in the world), and in general many of the finest, friendliest people anywhere. It was a great place to grow up. Thanks to the miracles of the Internet, you can take a tour of downtown Lincoln without leaving your desk! It probably won't take much longer over the net than it would in person. From the tour you can see that Lincoln is home to the world's most phallic State Capitol building, which is actually one of the architectural wonders of the world, an Art-Deco masterpiece filled with some serious castle symbolism combined with lots of pictures and mosaics depicting Nebraska's history and heritage. Every school child in the state visits the Capitol building at least once, sometime once per year. Just as New York's Empire State Building was climbed by a giant ape, so too Lincoln's State Capitol was attacked by a giant Junebug. You can see live pictures of Lincoln, updated every 10 minutes.

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