Professional Staff

Romina Paskotic
- Title: Chief Operating Officer
Romina is the Chief Operating Officer for the Centre.

Morgan Alexander
- Title: Comminications & Outreach Officer
- Institution: The Australian National University

Wolfgang Barth
- Title: Corpus Manager
- Institution: The Australian National University
Recent Publications
Subgrouping the Sogeram languages
Bibliography
Danielle Barth, Wolfgang Barth, and Don Daniels. 2019. "Subgrouping the Sogeram languages." Journal of Historical Linguistics. 9 (1): 92-127. doi: 10.1075/jhl.17011.dan.

Julia Colleen Miller
- Title: Data Manager
- Institution: The Australian National University
Julia Miller is responsible for facilitating the archiving of data collected by Centre researchers. She is currently developing access protocols and guidelines to streamline the archiving process, with a goal of creating rich, well-structured, accessible corpora. She offers training in data management, archiving workflows, and various linguistic tools. Visit her research profile here.
Recent Publications
Nen
Bibliography
Nicholas Evans, and Julia Colleen Miller. 2016. "Nen." Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 46 (3): 331-349. doi: 10.1017/S0025100315000365.
Nen
Bibliography
Nicholas Evans, and Julia Colleen Miller. 2016. "Nen." Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 46 (3): 331–349. doi: 10.1017/S0025100315000365.
Illustrations of the IPA: Nen
Bibliography
Nicholas Evans, and Julia Colleen Miller. 2016. "Illustrations of the IPA: Nen." Journal of the International Phonetics Association. 46 (3): 331-349. doi: 10.1017/S0025100315000365.
Getting the story straight: Language fieldwork using a narrative problem-solving task
Bibliography
Lila San Roque, Lauren Gawne, Darja Hoenigman, Julia Colleen Miller, Alan Rumsey, Stef Spronck, Alice Carroll, and Nicholas Evans. 2012. "Getting the story straight: Language fieldwork using a narrative problem-solving task." Language Documentation & Conservation. 6: 135–173.

Ben Foley
- Title: TAP Project Manager
- Program: TAP
- Institution: The University of Queensland
Recent Publications
Applications of Natural Language Processing in Bilingual Language Teaching: An Indonesian-English Case Study
Bibliography
Zara Maxwell-Smith, Simón González Ochoa, Ben Foley, and Hanna Suominen. 2020. "Applications of Natural Language Processing in Bilingual Language Teaching: An Indonesian-English Case Study". In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 124–134. Seattle.
Building Speech Recognition Systems for Language Documentation: The CoEDL Endangered Language Pipeline and Inference System (ELPIS)
Bibliography
Ben Foley, Josh Arnold, Rolando Coto-Solano, Gautier Durantin, T. Mark Ellison, Daan van Esch, Scott Heath, František Kratochvíl, Zara Maxwell-Smith, David Nash, Ola Olsson, Mark Richards, Nay San, Hywel Stoakes, Nick Thieberger, and Janet Wiles. 2018. "Building Speech Recognition Systems for Language Documentation: The CoEDL Endangered Language Pipeline and Inference System (ELPIS)". In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages, 205-209. Gurugram, India.
In press: Applications of Natural Language Processing in Bilingual Language Teaching: An Indonesian-English Case Study
Bibliography
Zara Maxwell-Smith, Ben Foley, Simon Gonzalez, and H Suominen. "In press: Applications of Natural Language Processing in Bilingual Language Teaching: An Indonesian-English Case Study". In Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications,

Peter Worthy
- Title: Florence Project Manager
- Program: Florence
- Institution: The University of Queensland
Recent Publications
Setting wicked problems using design methods: People’s hesitancy to engage with the Internet of Things
Bibliography
Peter Worthy. 2020. Setting wicked problems using design methods: People’s hesitancy to engage with the Internet of Things. Brisbane : University of Queensland PhD Thesis.
An Automated Approach to Examining Pausing in the Speech of People With Dementia
Bibliography
Rachel A. Sluis, Daniel Angus, Janet Wiles, Andrew Back, Ting Ting Gibson, Jacki Liddle, Peter Worthy, David Copland, and Anthony J. Angwin. 2020. "An Automated Approach to Examining Pausing in the Speech of People With Dementia." American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias. 35: 1-8. doi: 10.1177/1533317520939773.
Musical agency and an ecological perspective of DMIs: collective embodiment in third wave HCI
Bibliography
Peter Worthy, Trevor Hunter, Ben Matthews, and Stephen Viller. 2020. "Musical agency and an ecological perspective of DMIs: collective embodiment in third wave HCI." Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 42 (3) doi: 10.1007/s00779-020-01429-9.
Social cardboard: Pretotyping a social ethnodroid in the wild.
Bibliography
Janet Wiles, Peter Worthy, Kristyn Sommer, Marie Boden, Scott Heath, Paul Pounds, Nikodem Rybak, Michael Smith, Jonathan Taufatofua, and Jason Weigel. 2016. "Social cardboard: Pretotyping a social ethnodroid in the wild.". In 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 531-532. Christchurch, NZ.
Hand in hand: Tools and techniques for understanding children’s touch with a social robot
Bibliography
Kristyn Sommer, Janet Wiles, Marie Boden, Joshua Riddell, Mark Nielsen, Paul Pounds, Nikodem Rybak, Virginia Slaughter, Michael Smith, Jonathan Taufatofua, Peter Worthy, and Jason Weigel. 2016. "Hand in hand: Tools and techniques for understanding children’s touch with a social robot". In 2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 437-438. Christchurch, New Zealand.

Joanne Allen
- Title: Director EA & Centre Operations
- Institution: The Australian National University
Recent Publications
The Light Inside the Shadow: An Anthology of Works by BlueBoard Members
Bibliography
Julia Reynolds, Joanne Allen, and Michelle Anderson. 2013. The Light Inside the Shadow: An Anthology of Works by BlueBoard Members. Canberra : ANU Press.

Susan Jiang
- Title: Operations & Finance Officer
- Institution: The Australian National University

John-Paul Hougaz
- Title: Research Support Officer (Node Coordinator)
- Institution: The University of Melbourne

Rebecca Adams
- Title: Senior Operations & Research Administrative Officer (Node Coordinator)
- Institution: The University of Queensland
Rebecca is responsible for providing operational, financial and research administration support to the University of Queensland Node of the Centre including financial monitoring, event organisation, travel and liaison with collaborating disciplines and external stakeholders on CoEDL projects.

Siobhain O'Leary
- Title: Research Administration Officer (Node Coordinator)
- Institution: Western Sydney University
Siobhain is responsible for processing all the day-to-day financial, administration and travel requirements for Western Sydney University (WSU) Node of the Centre. She also tracks all WSU Centre related activity.