I joined the Institute for Specialised Communication and Multilingualism in July 2008 as the Language Technologies Technical Officer.  I work in computational linguistics and linguistic visualization.

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.
• U.S. Patent 7,610,190:Systems and methods for hybrid text summarization. Inventors:  L. Polanyi, M. H. van den Berg, G. L. Thione, R.S. Crouch, C.D. Culy, D.D. Ahn.
• U.S. Patent 7,757,170:Recommendation aggregation for digest generation. Inventors: D-A. Billsus, C.D. Culy, D.M. Hilbert, J.J. Trevor.

Recent presentations

• C. Culy, V. Lyding, and H. Dittmann. to appear. "Visualizing Dependency Structures" To be presented at the annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Sprachtechnologie und Computerlinguistik (GSCL), Hamburg, Germany. 28-30 September 2011.
• A. Abel and C. Culy. to appear. "KOLIPSI — A Collection of Language Learner Corpora for German and Italian". To be presented at LCR 2011, 20 years of learner corpus research: Looking back, moving ahead. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 15-17 September 2011.
• C. Culy, V. Lyding, and H. Dittmann. 2011. "xLDD: Extended Linguistic Dependency Diagrams". Presented at the 15th International Conference on Information Visualisation IV2011, 12, 13 - 15 July 2011, University of London, UK.
• C. Culy, V. Lyding, and H. Dittmann. 2011. "Structured Parallel Coordinates: a visualization for analyzing structured language data" to appear in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, CILC-11, April 6-9, 2011, Valencia, Spain.
• Culy, C. and V. Lyding. 2010. "Double Tree: An Advanced KWIC Visualization for Expert Users". Presented at IV 2010 Information Visualization, July 26-29, 2010, London, United Kingdom. 
• Culy, C. and V. Lyding. 2010."Visualizations for exploratory corpus and text analysis" presented at the 2nd International Conference on Corpus Linguistics CILC-10, May 13-15, 2010, A Coruña, Spain.
• Culy, C. and V. Lyding. 2009a. "Visualization as Part of the Linguistic Processing Pipeline" presented at the Linguistic Processing Pipelines Workshop, Gesellschaft für Sprachtechnologie und Computerlinguistik. Potsdam. October 2009.
• Culy, C. and V. Lyding. 2009b. "Corpus Clouds - facilitating text analysis by means of visualizations" presentedat the 4th Language & Technology Conference. Poznan. November 2009.
• Culy, C. and V. Lyding. 2009c. Tutorial/Discussion on "Visualization of Linguistic Information" at 37. Österreichische Linguistiktagung. Salzburg. December 2009.

Selected publications

Recent conference proceedings

• Culy, C, V. Lyding, and H. Dittmann. 2011. "xLDD: Extended Linguistic Dependency Diagrams".  in Information Visualization: 15th International Conference on Information Visualisation, 164-169.
• Culy, C. and V. Lyding. 2011. "Corpus Clouds - Facilitating Text Analysis by Means of Visualizations" in Human Language Technology: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics,Zygmunt Vetulani (ed.). Berlin:Springer. 351-360.
• Culy, C. and V. Lyding. 2010. "Double Tree: An Advanced KWIC Visualization for Expert Users" in Information Visualization, Proceedings of IV 2010, 2010 14th International Conference Information Visualization, 98-103.
• Culy, C. and V. Lyding. 2010."Visualizations for exploratory corpus and text analysis" in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Corpus Linguistics CILC-10, May 13-15, 2010, A Coruña, Spain, 257-268.
• Culy, C. and V. Lyding. 2009. "Corpus Clouds - facilitating text analysis by means of visualizations" in the Proceedings of 4th Language & Technology Conference. November 6-8, 2009. Poznan, Poland. Zygmunt Vetulani (ed.). 521-525.
• Thione, G.L, van den Berg, M., Culy, C., and L. 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.

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.

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 2010-08-19]