John Pate

http://ling.osu.edu/~jpate

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Education

The Ohio State University:

Spring 2009, M.A.

Major: Linguistics

Thesis Title: Parsing with Local Context.

Cumulative GPA: 4.00

Spring 2009, B.A.

Major: Linguistics

Honors Thesis Title: Extending Phone Prediction Models of Word Segmentation to a More Real-

istic Representation of Prosody.

Cumulative GPA: 3.80

Publications

Cynthia Clopper and John Pate (2009). E ects of talker and token variability on perceptual learning of

dialect categories. In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics.

John Pate and Detmar Meurers (2007). Re ning Syntactic Categories Using Local Contexts Exper-

iments in Unlexicalized PCFG Parsing. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Treebanks

and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2007). Bergen, Norway.

Presentations

Wagner, Pate, & Clopper (2009) Children s Knowledge of Various Dialects of English. Poster presented

at the Cognitive Development Society meeting, San Antonio.

John Pate, Chris Brew, and Eric Fosler-Lussier (2009). Assessing the Utility of Prosody for Word Seg-

mentation in Phone Prediction. The 2009 Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium (MCLC 2009).

Bloomington, Indiana.

John Pate, Chris Brew, and Eric Fosler-Lussier (2009). Stressed-out Networks Extending Models of

Word Segmentation with Prosody. Poster at the 2009 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. Columbus,

Ohio.

John Pate, Emily Dorrian, and Laura Wagner (2009). Child Dialect Acquisition. Poster at the 2009

Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. Columbus, Ohio.

John K. Pate and Cynthia G. Clopper (2008). E ects of Talker and Token Variability on Perceptual

Learning of Dialect Categories. Poster at the 156th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Miami,

Florida.

John Pate and Detmar Meurers (2008). Re ning Syntactic Categories Using Local Contexts. Poster at

the 2008 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. Columbus, Ohio.

Research Assistantships

Developmental Language & Cognition Lab, Psychology September 2007 to August 2009

Research Assistant in Psycholinguist Dr. Laura Wagner s Developmental Language and Cognition lab.

Responsibilities include experiment design, subject scheduling, administration of experiments, and experi-

ment write-up.

Sociophonetics, Linguistics January 2007 to June 2009

Research Assistant to Phonetician Dr. Cynthia Clopper in the Linguistics Department. Responsibilities

include experiment design, creation of experiment scripts in E-Prime, subject recruitment, experiment ad-

ministration, and initial data processing.

Honors & Awards

Scottish Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme (SORSAS) 2009 - 2012

Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) Prize Studentship 2009 - 2012

Phi Beta Kappa 2008

Undergraduate Research O ce Summer Research Fellowship 2008

National Merit Scholarship 2005 - 2009

The President s Salute to Undergraduate Academic Achievement 2008

The OSU College of the Arts and Sciences Excellence in Scholarship Award 2008

Skills & Certi cation

Experienced research programmer

- Pro cient with: Perl, Praat, Python, R, Javascript

- Experience with Prolog

Pro cient with standard Unix shells

Web Page Design (HTML and CSS)

LTEX

A

E-Prime

IRB-certi ed for research with human subjects

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