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Columbia University.
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Paul Cohen
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From 1965 to 1967 he worked with William Labov and coauthored several reports on African American Vernacular English. He has spent the majority of his career (most of the period from 1968 to 2002) working for International Business Machines Corporation in such areas as automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech, and natural language processing as a Research Staff Member, and also in development (Senior Computational Linguist) and strategy (Program Manager, Speech Technology). Cohen holds seven patents in various areas of speech processing.
Since 2002, he has been a consultant and independent researcher, and has published several articles in the fields of Indo-European studies and English etymology and philology.
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During that period, in addition to a stint as Senior Product Developer / Linguist (2000 to 2001) at Net2Phone, Incorporated., he also held various editorial and consulting positions (inside and outside International Business Machines Corporation), and was a member of the committee that formulated the original Electric Company television series.
