Christine Corbett Moran

Location: USA | Boston | Massachusetts
Speaking Topics: Natural Language Processing | Computational Linguistics | Gender Issues

Presentation Web Links: 
Open Source Machine Translation, 23rd Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin, Germany

Mary Gardiner

Location: Australia | Sydney | New South Wales
Speaking Topics: Computational Linguistics | Computational Semantics | Contributing to Free Software | Free software | linux | Python programming | Sentiment analysis | Starting a women's technical group

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Web links / Blogs: 
Homepage (including CV)

Mary is a computational linguistics researcher and Free Software community member in Sydney Australia. She founded the Australian chapter of LinuxChix and has organised a couple of small women-in-Free Software events as part of linux.conf.au.

Mary has also worked as a software developer.

Conference organising experience:

  • Chair, linux.conf.au 2009 programme committee
  • Co-organiser, LinuxChix mini-conference, linux.conf.au 2008
  • Co-chair, linux.conf.au 2008 programme committee
  • Organiser, LinuxChix mini-conference, linux.conf.au 2007
Previous Presentations: 
Free Software, and how to pay for it, Sydney Linux Users Group, 2002
The Planet Feed Reader: Better Living Through Gravity, Open Source Developers Conference, 2006
Women in FOSS groups, lightning talk, Open Source Developers Conference, 2006
Sentiment and near-synonomy: do they go together?, the EUROLAN 2007 Doctoral Consortium
Corpus Statistics Approaches to Discriminating Among Near-Synonyms, the 10th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING 2007)
Talks you should submit to linux.conf.au, lightning talk, linux.conf.au 2008
Presentation Web Links: 
Academic publications list (articles and papers)
Free Software, and how to pay for it (slides)
The Planet Feed Reader: Better Living Through Gravity (slides)
Talks you should submit to linux.conf.au (slides)