Michael Erlewine
Researcher (Chargé De Recherche) at CNRS
France
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Erlewine is a linguistics researcher with 17 years of interdisciplinary experience bridging theoretical linguistics, language technology, and software development. Currently a Chargé de Recherche at CNRS after academic posts including Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore and a fellowship at the Helsinki Collegium, he combines rigorous PhD-level research (MIT) with practical engineering experience. Earlier in his career he built and sold a widely used WordPress plugin (YARPP), contributed to multilingual browser NLP at Mozilla, and consulted for organizations from Mozilla to MIT, highlighting a rare mix of academic depth and product-minded engineering. His work emphasizes language-agnostic, localizable parsing and the computational modeling of linguistic phenomena, applied across both research and real-world systems. Based in France, he brings a global perspective shaped by teaching and research roles across North America, Europe, and Asia. Colleagues value him for turning abstract linguistic theory into working language technologies and sustainable software.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Linguistics, PhD, Linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMA, Linguistics, MA, Linguistics at University of Chicago
Japanese, English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (66)
mojolicious10
perl10
mechanical-turk10
bit10
mozilla10
shibboleth10
plugin10
git-lfs9
acl9
wordpress9
nlp9
forking9
authentication9
sms9
synchronized9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mitcho/nusletter
Aug 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
mitcho/AFLA
May 2015 - Oct 2023
Contributions:16 pushes in 8 years 7 months
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