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James Tauber
Signum MA Faculty
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SPACE Preceptor
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SPACE Team
Digital philologist and corpus linguist
James K. Tauber is a philologist, linguist, and software developer who works with scholars around the world using computers to better understand languages and texts.
He has worked with text corpora, markup languages, and Web technologies for over thirty years. He currently develops software for Signum University and the Perseus Digital Library among other organizations. Prior to that he worked for a number of decades in software startups including as the CEO of Eldarion.
As a scholar he primarily works on corpus-driven historical language learning and also heads up the Digital Tolkien Project. He has studied linguistics, Ancient Greek, educational measurement, music theory and composition, and recently completed an MA in corpus linguistics with a dissertation on linguistic variation in Tolkien's writing style.
James has a Bachelor of Science in Linguistics from the University of Western Australia, a Postgraduate Diploma in Ancient Greek from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, a Certificate in Germanic Philology from Signum University, a Certificate in Educational Research Methodology from the University of Illinois Chicago, a Professional Certificate in Music Theory and Composition from Berklee Online, and a Higher Education Teaching Certificate from the Harvard-Bok Center for Teaching & Learning. He recently completed graduate study in Corpus Linguistics at Lancaster University where his dissertation was on linguistics variation in Tolkien's writing style.
James is a Fellow of the Python Software Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Originally from Australia, he now lives in the Boston area where he collects books and wine.
Learn more about James at jtauber.com.
He has worked with text corpora, markup languages, and Web technologies for over thirty years. He currently develops software for Signum University and the Perseus Digital Library among other organizations. Prior to that he worked for a number of decades in software startups including as the CEO of Eldarion.
As a scholar he primarily works on corpus-driven historical language learning and also heads up the Digital Tolkien Project. He has studied linguistics, Ancient Greek, educational measurement, music theory and composition, and recently completed an MA in corpus linguistics with a dissertation on linguistic variation in Tolkien's writing style.
James has a Bachelor of Science in Linguistics from the University of Western Australia, a Postgraduate Diploma in Ancient Greek from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, a Certificate in Germanic Philology from Signum University, a Certificate in Educational Research Methodology from the University of Illinois Chicago, a Professional Certificate in Music Theory and Composition from Berklee Online, and a Higher Education Teaching Certificate from the Harvard-Bok Center for Teaching & Learning. He recently completed graduate study in Corpus Linguistics at Lancaster University where his dissertation was on linguistics variation in Tolkien's writing style.
James is a Fellow of the Python Software Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Originally from Australia, he now lives in the Boston area where he collects books and wine.
Learn more about James at jtauber.com.
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