Off to the UCLA Indo-European Conference

Tomorrow I’m off to Los Angeles for the Twenty-Ninth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference.

Indo-European studies are notoriously impenetrable, even for linguists, but a couple of months ago, I finally decided now was the time to attend this major conference (to the extent an IE conference can be “major”).

I’m not great at conferences at the best of times, especially when I’m not a speaker and/or don’t know very many people, so this will be quite a stepping-out-of-the-comfort-zone for me.

But as an aspiring comparative philologist, I’m sure it’s going to be very rewarding for me.

at the intersection of computing, linguistics, philology, and learning science

By day I’m an entrepreneur, web technologist and open-source developer but my academic background is in linguistics (along with some classics, comparative philology, and educational statistics) and my main avocation is working on text, annotations, analysis and software relating to historical languages with a particular interest in facilitating better learning.

While my focus has mostly been on Biblical Greek, much of the work is highly relevant to other Hellenistic Greek texts, other dialects of Ancient Greek and, indeed, texts in completely different languages as well.

All code written for this endeavour is open source and text and data is made available under a Creative Commons license to the extent allowed by the sources used.