Laura PROCTOR

• Computer Training and Support
• Teaching - Computer Applications
• Technical Support
• Teaching Experience (Linguistics)
• Academic Background
• Publications

Computer Training and Support

Administration

Computing User Services, University of Victoria, B.C. 1980 - 1987

As Education Coordinator for the University of Victoria computing centre I was responsible for the planning and development of user education programs for both faculty and administrative staff. I supervised the delivery of training, consultation and problem resolution services to members of the University for both mainframe and microcomputer software.

Major accomplishments:

• Initiated the user education workshop program to introduce interactive access to the mainframe system (IBM/CMS)
• Expanded the workshop program to include support for microcomputer (both IBM and Macintosh) application software such as word processing, spreadsheets, database and statistical analysis.
• Co-ordinated training for the introduction of electronic office equipment to all campus administrative offices, including word processing, electronic mail and local administrative database systems.

Teaching - Computer Applications

Computing User Services, University of Victoria, 1980 - 1987, 1996 -1999

Computing and Communication Services, University of Ottawa, 1995 - 1996

• Created and presented workshops on:
• Netscape, Mosaic, Lynx, Eudora, Pine, Telnet, FTP
• HTML authoring, WebCT, Web site maintenance, Images for the Web
• SPSS and SAS (both mainframe and PC versions)
• File Management for Unix, Windows (3.1 and 95) and Mac OS
• Microsoft Word, Excel and Access; Filemaker PRO; EASY (Web interface)
• Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop
• Web Plugins for multimedia (Acrobat, Shockwave, RealAudio)
• CMS, XEDIT, Waterloo Script/GML, PROFS, ISIS

A number of these workshops are currently on-line at: http://web.uvic.ca/comped/online

Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa, 1994 - 1996

Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria, 1997

Created and lead workshops on the following topics for graduate students:

• Internet for research and publication: 1997 Workshop Handout
• Basic Statistical Analysis with SAS and SPSS

CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind), Ottawa, Ontario 1995-1996

Provided individual training to visually impaired students on the use of WordPerfect, Electronic Mail and Internet access (lynx) using the Dectalk text-to-speech and Braille output system.

Computer Training Center, Ottawa, Ontario, 1996

Basic Internet training sessions for business and government.

University Extension, University of Victoria, B.C., 1979-80, 1983-84

Taught special seminars in statistical analysis for graduate students in School of Public Administration .

 

 
 
 

Taught Introductory and Advanced FORTRAN Programming, IBM JCL.

Technical Support

• Planned and co-ordinated the initial setup and operation of the departmental computer teaching laboratory.
• Provided technical support for faculty and staff using Chinese word processing, scanning, Chinese OCR,

• Provided technical support to individuals using
• Scanners and OmniPage OCR software
• DecTalk text to speech system for word processing and internet access for visually impaired students
• Laser printers (for both Macintosh network and Unix mainframe) for printing PostScript documents from the Internet

• Provided advice and assistance for mainframe and microcomputer software to faculty and staff
• Assist with setup and operation of pen plotter, optical mark reader (used to automatically score student tests) and a variety of printers.

Software Experience/Familiarity

Programming: JavaScript, Perl, Prolog, AppleScript, Visual Basic, JAVA, SNOBOL, ICON, Lisp, REXX, C, Fortran, PL/1, COBOL, OS/370 Assembler

Office Applications: MicroSoft Office, Clarisworks, FileMakerPRO, Pagemaker

Internet/Web: Netscape, Internet Explorer, Lynx, Charlott, BBedit, Arachnophilia, Homepage, Pagemill, DreamWeaver, HTML including forms, frames, style sheets and scripting, plugin technology including Acrobat, Shockware, Real Audio/Video, Quicktime

Graphics: PhotoShop, Fireworks, Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Image and Photo editors, Graphic Converter (Mac), Debabelizer

Others: WebCT, StageCast (authoring tool for creating interactive simulations, models, games, stories, and lessons), Macromedia Director, Adobe Acrobat (PDF)

Teaching Experience (Linguistics)

Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria, 1998 & 1999

Linguistics 482 - Computational Linguistics.
Co-taught with Dr. A. C. Brett.
Course content is on-line at: http://web.uvic.ca/~esg02/ling482

Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa, July 1997

I created and taught the course:

Linguistics 4998 - Computational Techniques and Applications in Linguistics

Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong, 1990 - 1994

As a Lecturer in the Linguistics section, I developed and taught the following courses to graduate and undergraduate students in Linguistics and Translation.

• General Linguistics
• Semantics
• Discourse Analysis
• Computer Tools for Linguists (including Chinese word processing, SPSS-PC, OCP (corpus analysis), PC-Kimmo (Morphological analysis))
• Computer Tools for Translators (including Chinese word processing, OCP (corpus analysis), electronic mail)
• Machine Translation (theory and practice)
• Computer Programming (ICON, Prolog, Visual Basic)

I supervised student Honours projects and M.A. theses including Chinese-English translations, computer implementation of bilingual lexicon (Visual Basic), and computer-aided instruction for Mandarin pronunciation (Hypercard).

I was a member of the course development team for:

• B.A. in Computational Linguistics
• B.A. in Translation
• M.A. in Translation

The course development team was responsible for detailed planning of the curriculum and specific course content for these degree programs.

Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria 1985-1990

I instructed advanced tutorials in fourth year undergraduate computational linguistics courses, covering basic programming, statistical analysis, formal grammars and parsing methods.

Academic Background

Education

Master of Arts

1990, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.

Thesis title:"Conjunctions and Knowledge Acquisition from Text".

Third Level Chinese (Mandarin)

1987 , McGill University (at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou China and Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)

Advanced Modern Chinese (Mandarin)

1982, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.

Bachelor of Science (Honours)

1975, University of Guelph, Guelph,Ontario

Scholarships and Research Grants

Summer Graduate Research Scholarship

1995, School of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Ottawa

City Polytechnic of Hong Kong, Small Scale Research Grant # 903-256

1993-1994 "Investigation of Methods for Bilingual Corpus Analysis (Applied to Bilingual Terminology of Finance)" jointly held with Mr. Kenneth Au and Dr. Robert Luk.

B.C. Science Council Graduate Research in Engineering And Technology Scholarship #81-GC-8.

1988 - 1990

Advanced Systems Institute Graduate Award #78-ASF-2.

1988 - 1990

Dean's Scholarship, University of Victoria

1988

Publications

______. 1990. Conjunctions and Knowledge Acquisition. In Working Papers of the Linguistics Circle of the University of Victoria. University of Victoria.

Book Reviews:

Lexical Functions in Lexicography and Natural Language Processing by Leo Wanner (Ed.) (1996) In functions of language, 5.1, 1998, 118 - 122.

Computer Processing of Natural Language by Gilbert K. Krulee (1991) and Computers and Human Language by George W. Smith (1991) In Computational Linguistics, 17, 1991, 442-447.

Book Notices:

PC-KIMMO: A Two-level Processor for Morphological Analysis by Evan L. Antworth (1990) in Language, 68, 2,1992.

Natural Language Generation. Ed. by Gerard Kempen. (1987) in Language, 66, 1990

Natural Language Processing Technologies in Artificial Intelligence by Klaus K. Obermeier (1989) in Language, 66, 2, 1990. Computer Translation of Natural Language by W. Goshawke, I.D.K. Kelly, J.D. Wigg (1987) in Language, 65, 1989

Conference Papers & Presentations:

The computer, the voice and the linguist - Speech processing and linguistics. Presentation given to the Linguistics Circle, Univeristy of Victoria, March 4, 1999. (Handout)

Ise Henin and Laura Proctor. Collaborative Learning and Technology: Incorporating the Web as Teaching Tool. Tutorial presented at Ed-Media 98, 21 June 1998. (Presentation notes and overheads)

Ise Henin, Jan Brown and Laura Proctor. Collaborative Learning and Technology Seminars. March 1998. (Presentation notes and overheads)

Jensen, John T. and Laura Proctor. Affix Order in Optimality Theory.
Presented at the 1995 meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, Montreal.

Expert Systems and Hypertext: Initial Steps Towards Integration. Presented at Tsinghua University, Beijing, June 1992

From Traditional Text to Hypertext. Presented at the International Systemic Conference, International Christian University, Tokyo, July, 1991.

Lin Hua and Laura Proctor. A GPSG Analysis of Mandarin "De-Sentences". Presented at International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Studies of Chinese and English, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong, June, 1990

Extracting Knowledge from Texts. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Society, Victoria, B.C., May, 1990 

Memberships

Linguistic Society of Hong Kong: 1990 to present
Linguistic Society of America: 1989 to present
Canadian Linguistic Association: 1989 to present
Association for Computational Linguistics: 1988 to present

Other Activities

• President of the Graduate Student Association in the Linguistics Department, U of Ottawa (1995-1996)
• Partner (1985 - 1996) P.A. Research Consultants, Victoria, B.C.

I provide technical support for statistical data analysis and document preparation as part of this management consulting firm specializing in providing research and analytic services to senior public and private sector managers in economic analysis and systems modeling, program evaluation, auditing and organizational planning.
• I enjoy cooking, gardening, playing tennis and practicing Taichi