Nice to meet you on the web! I'm David, an Artist and Developer.
In my most recent position as a Software Engineer at Lymba, I worked primarily on developing web apps integrated with NLP tools and knowledge graphs. My day-to-day really varied, but I was often responsible for UI/UX design, building and maintaining customer-facing applications, ontology building, creating NLP resources, maintaining RESTful Python APIs, client demos, documentation writing, and quality assurance testing.
Recently, I've found myself trying to mesh my more recent aptitude for computer science with my lifelong love for art. As a result, I have been increasingly drawn towards web development and UI/UX design, relishing in the challenge of crafting webpages that are not only aesthetically pleasing, but also highly functional and intuitive. Constructing a product end-to-end has proven a rewarding experience and I'm looking to do more of that in the future.
Throughout my education, I focused primarily on syntactic phenomena in hopes of finding the answers to the following questions: (i) what are the fundamental syntactic operations provided by the human language faculty?; and (ii) what constraints are they subject to, and why? This work culminated in my Master's thesis Extraction from Conjuncts in Khoekhoe: An Argument for Cyclic Linearization advised by Erik Zyman at the University of Chicago
Outside of work, I spend a lot of time cycling, gardening, playing video games, making art of all kinds, and at drag events.
Unnamed Chess Battle Game (in development) - Blog coming soon. For now, follow my progress on GitHub! (repository)
studynorthernpomo.com - Learn Northern Pomo! (link)
davidbyron.info - Custom-built personal website for myself. (you are here)
andreschwab.com - Custom-built personal website for Andre Schwab. (link)
Extraction from Conjuncts in Khoekhoe: An Argument for Cyclic Linearization - In this thesis, I tackle a violation of the otherwise highly robust Coordinate Structure Constraint, so-called “SLF-coordination”, that has yet to be fully understood. I argue that the cyclic linearization approach to the locality of movement makes it possible to account for this puzzling phenomenon as it manifests in the Khoisan language Khoekhoe. (link)
Grammatical Sketch of |Xam - A webpage outlining the syntactic properties of |Xam, a now extinct Khoisan language. (link)
