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Paul G. Hackett <ph2046@columbia.edu> Columbia University I am currently engaged in research in two fields of inquiry, computational linguistics applied to the Tibetan language, and late Indian / Tibetan Buddhist tantra. |
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Address: | c/o Dept. of Religion, Columbia University 80 Claremont Ave. #103 New York, New York 10027 United States |
Web Page: | https://www.columbia.edu/~ph2046 |
List Affiliations: | Former Review Editor for H-Buddhism |
Interests: | Asian History / Studies Religious Studies and Theology |
Bio: Degrees Held: University of Arizona B.S., Physics and Astronomy (1986) University of Virginia M.A., Religious Studies (1994) University of Maryland - College Park College of Library and Information Science M.L.S. (2000) (Thesis) Approaches to Tibetan Information Retrieval: Segmentation vs. n-grams Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences M. Phil., Religion (2005) Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Ph.D. Religion (2008) (Dissertation) Barbarian Lands: Theos Bernard, Tibet, and the American Religious Life Publications: "Drawing the Steel Bow" in Changing Minds: Essays in Honor of Paul Jeffrey Hopkins. (ed. Guy Newland). Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications (2001), pp.291-326. "Comparison of Word-Based and Syllable-Based Retrieval for Tibetan" Presented at the Information Retrieval for Asian Languages Workshop in Hong Kong in September, 2000. "Automatic Segmentation and Part-of-Speech Tagging For Tibetan" Paper presented at the Ninth International Association of Tibetan Studies Conference (IATS-9), Leiden, The Netherlands, June 2000. A Tibetan Verb Lexicon: Verbs, Classes, and Syntactic Frames. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications (2004). "Looking For a Lost Gita: Gedun Chopel's Tibetan Translation of the Bhakti Chapter," Namarupa, vol. 7 (2007), pp.41-45. The Translating Buddhism From Tibetan Classical Reader. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, forthcoming. |