Gary F. Simons, Ph.D.
Chief Research Officer
Degrees
- Ph.D. (Linguistics), Cornell University, 1979
- M.A. (Linguistics), Cornell University, 1976
- B.A. summa cum laude, Seattle Pacific University, 1974
Current positions
- Chief Research Officer, SIL, 2010–
- Executive Editor, Ethnologue, SIL, 2003–
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Language Development, Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics ,1999–
- Coordinator, Open Language Archives Community, 2000–
Other experience
- Associate VP for Academic Affairs, SIL, 1999–2009
- Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation, Linguistic Society of America, 2006–2008
- International Linguistics Consultant, SIL, 1982–2005
- Editorial board, Markup Languages: Theory and Practice, 1998–2002
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington, 1985–2002
- Director, Academic Computing, SIL, 1986–1999
- Director,LinguaLinks Product Development, SIL, 1997–1999
- Committee on Text Analysis and Interpretation , 1989–1994; and Technical Review Committee, 1996–1998, Text Encoding Initiative
- Manager, Language Data Processing, SIL, 1984–1985
- Translation Advisor for North Malaita, Solomon Islands, with SIL, 1979–1983
- Graduate Research Assistant for Language Variation and Limits to Communication Project (Joseph Grimes, Principal Investigator), involving 18 months field work in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, 1976–1978
Memberships
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Linguistic Society of America
- Text Encoding Initiative Consortium
Research interests
- Digital language documentation, description, and archiving
- Markup languages and text encoding
- Computational linguistics
- Programming languages
- Historical and comparative linguistics
- Austronesian linguistics
United States