ERIKA BELLINGHAM Buffalo, NY | 716-249-9654 | [email protected] | acsu.buffalo.edu/~ebelling/ | github.com/ebellingham

EDUCATION University at Buffalo PhD in Linguistics 2014 - 2020 Dissertation topic: Codability in event description: A frame-semantic perspective Concentrations: Semantics, Syntax (Construction Grammar, HPSG, RRG), Pragmatics, Computational Linguistics MSc in Computational Linguistics 2019 Project: Role and Reference Grammar as a unification-based construction grammar University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia B.A. Honors in Linguistics (Class I) 2010

GRADUATE COURSES (GPA: 4.0) Linguistics: Discourse Pragmatics, Syntax, Typology and Universals, Field Methods, Phonetics, Phonology, The Emergent Interface, Semantics, Historical Linguistics, Inferential models, Prosody & Information Structure, Construction Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar, Corpus Linguistics, Quantitative Methods, Comparative Syntactic Theories Computer Science: Computer Science for Non-Majors 1 & 2 (Java-based courses on abstract data types, object-oriented methodology, software development methodology), Machine Learning, Knowledge Representation, Computational Linguistics, Approximate inference in natural language models, Knowledge Engineering for NLP

RESEARCH INTERESTS/AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION ➢ Event semantics, the pathway from perception to linguistic representation of events ➢ Underspecification and inference in language production and understanding ➢ Semantic typology, focusing on the semantics of causality ➢ Combining distributional semantics with frame semantics and construction grammar ➢ Formal and computational models of discourse and dialogue ➢ Computational models of language production, focusing on semantic and pragmatic elements

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (INDUSTRY) Analytical Linguist Intern (Intent Schema Team) June 2018 – August 2018 ➢ Worked on natural language systems for the Google Assistant ➢ Used linguistic analysis to propose/design improvements for NLU and NLG systems

RESEARCH & TEACHING EXPERIENCE (ACADEMIC) University at Buffalo Primary Instructor (LIN207: Language, Society and the Individual) Spring 2019 Teaching Assistant (LIN355: Child Language Acquisition) Fall 2014 Causality Across Languages (NSF Linguistics grant #1535846.PI: Juergen Bohnemeyer) Research Assistant January 2015 – May 2019 ➢ Designed and piloted crosslinguistic experiments in the representation of causality ➢ Designed and implemented crosslinguistic syntax + semantics coding system for narrative descriptions of causal chains ➢ Coordinating and compiling large data sets from multiple languages, cleaning and synthesizing data ➢ Applying quantitative techniques including mixed effects models, clustering, correlation analysis, PCA ➢ Training collaborators to run experiments and code data (using the coding system I designed)

SOFTWARE AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES Very proficient (use every day): Python, R, Excel, LaTeX Comfortable (previously used for projects): Java, Praat, ELAN, Prolog, SQL, Tensorflow Some experience: Matlab, Octave, Perl, Scala, C++

NLP/DATA SCIENCE TECHNIQUES Linear & logistic regression, neural networks (CNN, RNN), mixed effects models, PCA, MDS, distributional semantic models, unification grammar implementation, clustering techniques (k-means, k-nearest neighbor), dependency parsing, random forests, conditional inference trees

NON-ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Wildfire Sports Pty Ltd, Brisbane, Australia (Ecommerce) | www.wildfiresports.com.au ERIKA BELLINGHAM PAGE 2

Co-owner, advisor (Technology/Marketing/UX Design) 2014 – 2019 ➢ Working in an advisory capacity: business analysis, system integrations & UX design. Co-owner, IT Manager/Ecommerce Systems Manager (Co-founded company in 2011) 2011 – 2014 ➢ Managed several ecommerce websites and their integrations with internal systems (accounts, warehouse management, shipping etc.). Marketing and data analysis Pacific Transcription, Brisbane, Australia Operations Manager/Marketing Manager/IT Manager 2007 – 2011 ➢ Managed the design and development of a custom workflow system to interface and send jobs between clients, typists, billing and external accounts departments.

WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED Coding workshop for Causality Across Languages. Nijmegen, Buffalo 2017-2018 Training workshops for Causality Across Languages. Buffalo, Nijmegen, Beijing 2016

REFERREED PAPERS & ARTICLES Bellingham, E., H. Beck & R. Hatcher. (Under review). A discourse model for Undirected Speculation. In M. Kirner-Ludwig (ed.), New waves in Pragmatics. Bellingham, E., S. Evers, K. Kawachi, A. Mitchell, S. Park, A. Stepanova & J. Bohnemeyer. (In press). Exploring the representation of causality across languages: integrating production, comprehension and conceptualization perspectives. In E. Bar-Asher Siegal & N. Boneh (eds.). Perspectives on Causation: Selected Papers from the Jerusalem 2017 Workshop. Bellingham, E. (2019). Complex event representation in a typed feature structure implementation of Role and Reference Grammar. Computing Semantics with Types, Frames and Related Structures: Workshop at the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics. Gothenburg, Sweden, 23-27 May, 2019. Link. Kawachi, K., S. Park & E. Bellingham. (2019). Directness of causation and morpho-syntactic complexity of constructions: Japanese and Korean cases. Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 26. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. Kawachi, K., E. Bellingham & J. Bohnemeyer. (2018). Different types of causality and clause linkage in English, Japanese, Sidaama, and Yucatec Maya. Papers from the 18th National Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association. Evers, S., E. Bellingham, K. Donelson, J. Du, J. A. Jódar Sánchez, F. Li, & J. Bohnemeyer. (2017). The role of intentionality in causal attribution is culturally mediated: Evidence from Chinese, Mayan, and Spanish populations. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Link.

REFEREED PRESENTATIONS & POSTERS Bellingham, E. (2019). Integrating event descriptions in multi-predicate constructions: frame semantics and construal in the English means construction. 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Nishinomiya, Japan, 6-11 August, 2019. Kawachi, K., E. Bellingham, S. Park & J. Bohnemeyer (2019). Iconicity in usage: A cross-linguistic study of causative event descriptions. 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Nishinomiya, Japan, 6-11 August, 2019. Bellingham, E. (2019). Does description complexity vary with respect to event typicality? A corpus approach. 2nd Annual Buffalo- Toronto Workshop on Linguistic Perspectives on Variation Within and Across Languages. Toronto, Canada, 16 March, 2019. Bellingham, E., H. Beck & R. Hatcher. (2018). A discourse model for undirected speculation. 4th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association. Albany, USA, 1-3 November, 2018. Bellingham, E., S. Evers, K. Kawachi, A. Mitchell & J. Bohnemeyer. (2017). An experimental approach to the semantic typology of causative constructions. 12th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology. Canberra, Australia, 12-14 December 2017 Bellingham, E., S. Park, J. Bohnemeyer, A. Stepanova & K. Kawachi. (2017) Causality in Discourse: Cross-linguistic Patterns. 15th International Pragmatics Conference. Special session: Linguistic Expressions and Devices that Yield the Implicature of Cause and Effect. Belfast, UK. 16-21 July, 2017. Kawachi, K., & E. Bellingham. (2017) Japanese juncture-nexus types used for different causality types. Role and Reference Grammar Conference 2017. Tokyo, Japan. 1 August, 2017.

FIELD MANUALS Bellingham, E. (2016). Causality Across Languages: Semantic Typology Subproject Protocol. Bellingham, E. (2016). Causality Across Languages: Causality in Discourse Subproject Protocol. Bellingham, E. (2016). Causality Across Languages: Causality in Discourse Coding Manual.

SUMMER SCHOOLS North American Summer School of Logic, Language and Information (NASSLLI) 2016 Corpus Linguistics Fest (CLiF) 2016 ERIKA BELLINGHAM PAGE 3

SERVICE ACTIVITIES Faculty search committee (student representative), Department of Linguistics, University at Buffalo 2018, 2019 At-home English Tutor, Journeys End Refugee Services 2017 Mark Diamond Research Fund Review Committee, University at Buffalo 2016 Vice President, Cognitive Science Graduate Student Association, University at Buffalo 2015 – 2016 Vice President, Graduate Linguistics Association, University at Buffalo 2014-15, 2016-18

GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS Betty Patterson Commemorative Fellowship, Fellowships Fund Inc 2019 Graduate Student Travel Award, International Pragmatics Association 2017 Summer Research Fund, University at Buffalo 2016 Presidential Fellowship, University at Buffalo 2014 – 2018 UQ Excellence Scholarship, University of Queensland 2007 – 2010

LANGUAGES English (Native), German (Advanced Intermediate; Zertifikat Deutsch (2006)), Spanish (Advanced Beginner), Zarma (Fieldwork), Turkish (Beginner)