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I joined the Institute for Specialised Communication and Multilingualism in July 2008 as the Language Technologies Technical Officer.  

Education

• 1990 Ph.D. in Linguistics, Stanford University. Thesis: The syntax and semantics of internally headed relative clauses.
• 1983 A.M. in Linguistics, Stanford University.
• 1983 B.S. in Mathematics, Stanford University.

Recent Work

• 2003-2005 Senior Research Scientist and Project Leader at FX Palo Alto Laboratory.
• 2000-2003 Senior Research Linguist at SRI International
• 1999-2000 Computational Linguist at Inxight Software, Inc. (now part of SAP)
• 1991-2001 Assistant/Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of African Language Instruction at the University of Iowa.

Patents

• U.S. Patent 7,013,275: Method and apparatus for providing a dynamic speech-driven control and remote service access system. Inventors: D. Arnold, H. Franco, D. Israel, and C. Culy
• U.S. Patent 7,249,019: Method and apparatus for providing an integrated speech recognition and natural language understanding for a dialog system. Inventors:  C. Culy, D. Israel, and J. Arnold
• U.S. Patent 7,363,294: Indexing for contextual revisitation and digest generation. Inventors:  D-A. Billsus, D.M. Hilbert, J.J. Trevor, C.D. Culy, L. Denoue, G. Golovchinsky.

Selected publications

Articles in journals

• Culy, C. and S. Fagan. 2002. "The history of the middle in Dogon" Studies in African Linguistics 30.2: 171-94.
• Culy, C. 1999. "Questions in Takelma" International Journal of American Linguistics. 65.3, 251-274.
• Culy, C. 1998. "Statistical distribution and the grammatical/ungrammatical distinction" Grammars 1.1, 1-13.
• Culy, C. 1997. "Logophoric pronouns and point of view" Linguistics 35, 845-859.
• Culy, C. 1996. "Agreement and Fula pronouns" Studies in African Linguistics 25.1, 1-27.
• Culy, C. 1996. "Formal properties of natural languages and linguistic theory" Linguistics and Philosophy 19.6, 599-617.
• Culy, C. 1996. "Null objects in English recipes" Language Variation and Change 8.1, 91-124.
• Culy, C., K. Kodio, and P. Togo. 1995. "Dogon pronominal systems: their nature and evolution" Studies in African Linguistics 23.3:315-344.
• Culy, C. 1994. "Aspects of Logophoric Marking" Linguistics 32, 1055-1094.
• Culy, C. 1994. "A note on logophoricity in Dogon" Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 15, 113-125.
• Culy, C. and B. Gnalibouly Dikko. 1988. "Fula makko and Theories of Anaphora" in Linguistic Inquiry 19.2:315-319.
• Culy, C. 1985. "The Complexity of the Vocabulary of Bambara" in Linguistics and Philosophy 8:345-351, reprinted in E. Bach, W.Marsh, and W.J. Savitch (eds.) The Formal Complexity of Language, 349-357.

Recent conference proceedings

• Thione, G.L, van den Berg, M., Culy, C., and Livia Polanyi. 2004. "LiveTree: An Integrated Workbench for Discourse Processing" in Proceedings of the ACL2004 Workshop on Discourse Annotation, Barcelona, Spain, July 25-26, 2004.
• Polanyi, L., Culy C., van den Berg, M., Thione, G.L., and Ahn, D. 2004. "Sentential Structure and Discourse Parsing" in Proceedings of the ACL2004 Workshop on Discourse Annotation, Barcelona, Spain, July 25-26, 2004.
• Thione, G.L., van den Berg, M., Polanyi, L., and Culy, C. 2004. "Hybrid Text Summarization: Combining external relevance measures with Structural Analysis" in Proceedings of the ACL2004 Workshop Text Summarization Branches Out, Barcelona, Spain, July 25-26, 2004.
• Polanyi, L., Culy C., van den Berg, M., and Thione, G.L. 2004. "A Rule Based Approach to Discourse Parsing" in Proceedings of the 5th SIGdial Workshop in Discourse And Dialogue.
  Cambridge, MA USA pp. 108-117.
• Orlandi, M., C. Culy, H. Franco. 2003. "Using Dialog Corrections to Improve Speech Recognition" in Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Error Handling in Spoken Dialogue Systems, Chateau-d'Oex-Vaud, Switzerland,  47-51.
• Culy, C. and Riehmann, S.Z. 2003. "The Limits of N-Gram Translation Evaluation Metrics" in Proceedings of MT Summit IX: 71-78.
• Dowding, J., B.A. Hockey, J.M. Gawron, and C. Culy. 2001. "Practical Issues in Compiling Typed Unification Grammars for Speech Recognition" ACL 2001: 164-171.

Invited book chapters

• Culy, C. 2003. "Bambara-Mandinka-Jula." In William Frawley and William Bright (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (second edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Culy, C. 2002. "The logophoricity hierarcy and variation in Dogon" in Tom Güldemann and Manfred von Roncador (eds.), Reported Discourse: A Meeting Ground for Different Linguistic Domains. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 201-210.

Book

• Culy, C. 1988. Basic Donno So (Dogon), Grammar notes and glossary written for Peace Corps-Mali.

Languages

• English: first language
• French: very good
• Italian: conversational
• Spanish: conversational
• German:basic
• Bambara, Fula, Dogon: basic

[updated 2008-07-31]