I have spent 25 years pursuing scalable computational methods for capturing, enriching, and analysing data from endangered languages, drawing on fieldwork in West Africa, South America, and Melanesia. Over the past 5 years I have begun to work with remote Aboriginal communities in northern Australia, with the intention of sustaining language use by making intercultural spaces more amenable to linguistic diversity. I am currently investigating assistive technologies for building ‘white’ capacity for participating in local lifeworlds and for supporting intergenerational transmission of Indigenous ecological knowledge.

I am recruiting PhD students to the Top End Language Lab for research in technology and design for language revitalization.​
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Karakoram Highway, Xinjiang, China

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Publications

PhD Students
  • Current: Angel Aquino, Siobhan Casson, Annie Edwards-Cameron, Nicole Curtin, Tereza Hlaváčková, Éric Le Ferrand, Henry Leslie-O'Neill, William Lane, Valerie Leishman, Julie Walker, Brandon Wiltshire
  • Past: Trevor Cohn, Phil Blunsom, Catherine Lai, Oliver Adams, Florian Hanke, Clint Burfoot, Patrick Ye, Long Duong, Mat Bettinson, Sumukh Ghodke