“Linguistics Insights in Text Normalization”

Kyle Gorman holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania.  He is now an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Graduate Center, CUNY.  Previous to working as a software engineer at Google Research, he worked as a postdoctoral research assistant, and assistant professor, at the Center for Spoken Language Understanding at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.  Kyle has worked on language variation and change, phonology, morphology and morphological processing, language disorders, and text normalization. He is a maintainer of the OpenFst library and the creator of the Pynini FST toolkit.