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Looking for a proven and innovative developer for your next web project? I am currently available for hire.

I am also available for speaking engagements (English, Japanese, or both) on the multilingual web, practical natural language processing and interfaces (Mozilla Labs' Ubiquity), the future of the web (and WordPress), and design and research in the open source era.

Technical direction and prior work

Three largely independent factors in the past decade have made the applications and serious considerations of natural language crucial to the future of the web. The expansion of the internet has removed the barriers of geography and economics between people, but in so doing has made language the primary divider of modern humanity. More and more human knowledge is being encoded digitally and online, almost all in our natural languages—a format proven time and time again to be challenging for semantically accurate machine analysis. All the while, only iterative improvements have been made to the usability of computers and the web, largely ignoring our most natural form of communication. These factors have conspired to make practical yet theoretically-inspired multilingual natural language processing a crucial field for the 21st century.

Much of my recent work and writings have been on this area of the multilingual web and natural interfaces.

I also have previous professional experience in database-driven website design and development, from dictionaries and school information systems to worldwide gaming infrastructure. Here is some of my recent technical work.

Just for fun

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Academic

Whether it's work or play, I'm always on my computer (Apple MacBook Pro). If you're interested in seeing what applications and tools I use, check out my iusethis page.

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