Daniel Hieber
Linguist at Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Hieber is a research linguist and science communicator with 11 years of experience documenting and revitalizing endangered languages, currently compiling a pedagogical dictionary and grammar for Chitimacha with the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana. He holds a Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara and earned an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for work on crosslinguistic variation in parts of speech, blending rigorous typological research with applied community-centered language work. Daniel has experience creating language-learning software for Native American languages at Rosetta Stone and translates technical linguistics into engaging educational videos as Linguistic Discovery. Based in Chicago, he brings both fieldwork expertise and product-oriented experience, uniquely positioned at the intersection of academic research, language technology, and public outreach.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
School for International TrainingDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics at UC Santa BarbaraB.A., Linguistics, Philosophy, B.A., Linguistics, Philosophy at William & Mary
Swahili, Spanish, Latin
Stackoverflow
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18questions
Github Skills (200)
transliteration10
parser10
digital-humanities10
json-data10
expressjs10
github10
json-schema10
testing10
windows10
microsoft-azure10
sequence-diagram10
commonmark10
phonetics10
linter10
princexml10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
digitallinguistics/scription
Mar 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:8 releases, 59 commits, 54 pushes in 2 years
digitallinguistics/concordance
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
A Node.js library for performing concordance-related tasks on a corpus in DLx JSON format
Contributions:6 releases, 31 commits, 43 PRs in 5 months
nodejs-librarycorporacorpuscorpus-linguisticsdigital-linguistics
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