Writings

B.A. Thesis: Palatalizations in the Old Novgorod Dialect: Comparing Theory and Data

Written for the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures in 2006. Full text available here or as a PDF.

Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur: Being a Statistical Analysis of Graffiti Found at the University of Chicago Library

Written as a tongue-in-cheek “statistical analysis” of my graffiti data set (I’ve pointed out a few of the methodological issues), it nonetheless attracted a lot of attention from Slashdot, the Wall Street Journal, and others. Available at Inkling Magazine.

A formal approach to XML semantics: implications for archive standards

To be published in the Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, Vol. 6: Proceedings of the International Symposium on XML for the Long Haul: Issues in the Long-term Preservation of XML.