Jacob Collard
Consultant at National Institute of Standards and Technology
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Collard is a computational and anthropological linguist and consultant with 11 years of experience applying NLP, algorithm design, and performance metric development to the automatic creation of domain ontologies at NIST. He combines deep academic training (PhD work at Cornell, BA from Swarthmore) with hands-on field experience documenting endangered languages and building language-learning resources and talking dictionaries. Jacob’s work bridges linguistic description and practical tooling—designing systems that translate human-readable terminology into structured ontologies and measuring NLP performance in domains where evaluation is inherently challenging. Based in Ithaca, he brings rare expertise in both the sociolinguistic realities of language endangerment and the computational methods needed to support preservation and analysis.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics at Cornell University Graduate SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Linguistics, Bachelor’s Degree, Linguistics at Swarthmore CollegeHigh School Diploma, College/University Preparatory, High School Diploma, College/University Preparatory at Big Walnut High School
German, Spanish, Hindi, Indonesian, chinese, mandarin
Github Skills (36)
terrain-generation10
voronoi9
shader9
perlin-noise9
noise9
procedural-generation8
noise-generator8
simplex-algorithm8
simplex8
nlp6
cython6
ai6
natural-language-processing6
machine-learning6
text-classification6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ToposInstitute/tac-corpus
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:30 commits, 37 pushes in 1 year 3 months
thorsonlinguistics/semantic-foma
Sep 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 year 11 months
fomapython
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