Curriculum Vitae

Hugh J. Paterson III

I currently serve in SIL Americas Area bringing linguistics in SIL and the digital world closer together. Last year I spent four months in México working with a team on a language documentation project; documenting four different, closely related languages. While there, among other things I set up the data management processes for audio, video and metadata. For the last six months I has been working with the Language and Culture Archive in Dallas, Tx. setting up processes for digitizing audio, video and photos spanning SIL's work over the last 70 years. Currently I am working with the team redesigning sil.org, for easier access to digital resources. I received my B.A. in German from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and am currently an M.A. student in linguistics at the University of North Dakota.
Education
University of North Dakota
M.A. student
2007 – Present

Linguistics

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Study in Würzburg, Germany
2006 – 2006
Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics
Guest student
2009 – 2009

Language Documentation and Advanced Phonology

Gymnasium Schule, Germany
1996 – 1996
Grundschule, Germany
1992 – 1993
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
B.A., German
2003 – 2007

Thesis: De, Der, Die, D’ Definite Articles in Aargau and Thurgau
Thesis Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Douglas Simms

Education Abroad
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Study in Würzburg, Germany
2006 – 2006
Gymnasium Schule, Germany
1996 – 1996
Grundschule, Germany
1992 – 1993
Experience
SIL International
Usefulness Engineer
2011 – Present
  • Worked with a team to bring language documentation and linguistic content to the web in a user friendly manner with current web technologies.
  • Acted as a business consultant to organizational units in SIL to bring their services to the web.
  • Major areas of participation: Information Architecture, Planing, Business Analysis, User Experience Analysis.
Assistant to the Americas Area Access Coordinator
2010 – Present
  • Established archival quality digitization procedures for language documentation and minority language education materials.
  • Collaborated with the Language & Culture Archive to establish metadata schemas for audio and video materials, both for discovery and processing of materials through digitization workflows.
  • Managed a team of volunteers digitizing various mediums of language documentation and cultural resources.
Assistant to the Americas Area Linguistics Coordinator
2010 – Present
  • Worked with SIL staff in México doing language documentation
  • Established project metadata tracking and file organization procedures for multi-researcher language documentation project
  • Made project specific technology recommendations for language documentation and language development use cases
Apple, Inc. St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis
Mac Specialist
October 2007 – February 2008
  • Developing complete solutions based on customers’ specific needs.
  • Provided one-on-one training to customers on Apple products.
  • Created brand advocates by providing an amazing, personalized shopping experience to each and every customer.
Apple, Inc. Smith Haven, New York
Smith Haven
Mac Specialist
October 2006 – December 2006
  • Developing complete solutions based on customers’ specific needs.
  • Provided one-on-one training to customers on Apple products.
  • Created brand advocates by providing an amazing, personalized shopping experience to each and every customer.
Langauges

Native: English
Near-native fluency: German
Basic reading knowledge: Dutch, Middle High German, Swiss German, Spanish
Some knowledge: Mandarin, Nepali, Koine Greek

Personal
Strength Finder Themes
  • Learner
  • Input
  • Individualization
  • Ideation
  • Focus
Myers-Briggs Personalty Type
  • ENTP
Presentations
2011

Getting things out of FLEx: Dictionaries in multiple modes. International Workshop on Fieldworks Software. Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 17-21 October 2011.

2009

Lasting Linguistics: Making a Meaningful Mark. with John Clifton & Steve Marlett. University of North Dakota 2009 linguistics colloquium series, 30 July. [PDF and Notes]

2009

Repair strategies used with the interdental approximant in some Philippine languages. Presentation at the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, Academic Forum, 18 May.

2009

An Unlikely Retention. Paper presented at the 11th International Conference of Austronesian Linguistics, 22-26 June, Aussois, France.

Professional Associations
Linguistic Society of America
Member
2009 – Present
Foundation for Endangered Languages
Member
2010 – 2011
Publications

Kenneth S. Olson, Jeff Mielke, Josephine Sanicas-Daguman, Carol Jean Pebley and Hugh J. Paterson (2010). The phonetic status of the (inter)dental approximant. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 40 , pp 199-215 doi:10.1017/S0025100309990296

2011

Getting things out of FLEx: Dictionaries in multiple modes. International Workshop on Fieldworks Software. Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 17-21 October 2011.

2009

Lasting Linguistics: Making a Meaningful Mark. with John Clifton & Steve Marlett. University of North Dakota 2009 linguistics colloquium series, 30 July. [PDF and Notes]

2009

Repair strategies used with the interdental approximant in some Philippine languages. Presentation at the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, Academic Forum, 18 May.

2009

An Unlikely Retention. Paper presented at the 11th International Conference of Austronesian Linguistics, 22-26 June, Aussois, France.

Research Interests
  • Austronesian historical linguistics
  • Language documentation
  • Linguistic cartography
  • Social-linguistic & non-aural factors influencing sound change
  • Phonetic articulations involving tongue protrusion
  • Research methodologies granting greater access to usable linguistic and language data
  • Web-based linguistic services
  • User experience design
  • Accessibility & usability of research data
  • Workflow design and optimization