Will Styler

I’m a Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, in the Department of Linguistics. My research specialization is Acoustic and Articulatory Phonetics, focusing on the perception of oral and nasal vowels with limited context and high variability, but I live a double life, working extensively in computational processing of medical records and language as well. Simply put, vowels bring me joy, computers bring me joy, and any confluence is a bonus.

Teaching is one of my greatest passions, and I’ve taught both undergraduate and graduate Phonetics courses at the University of Colorado (along with various other workshops and guest lectures). Nothing is more pleasing to me than finding a wonderful new analogy for a concept which just “clicks” for my students, and despite the occasional speedbump, I truly love sharing the joy of language with students of all levels.

When I’m not teaching or working on my own research, I work as a research assistant in the department. I’ve gotten involved with several large medical record annotation grants with Dr. Martha Palmer, for which I do annotation schema design and documentation, annotator supervision, and annotation workflow design. In addition, I do data analysis, Praat scripting and Python programming for Dr. Rebecca Scarborough in the CU Phonetics Lab.

As a side project, I’m also the maintainer of the EnronSent email corpus, a cleaned subset of data from the Enron corpus of email. If you have questions, or simply need information on the data there, please do send me an email.