Dr. Karine Megerdoomian is a theoretical and computational linguist specializing in less commonly taught languages, with emphasis on Persian and Armenian. Karine received a B.S. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Southern California. She has over 10 years of experience in research and development with focus in the areas of machine translation, information extraction, and lexical semantics. She specializes in the study of complex verbal predicates and Multiword Expressions as well as the syntax-morphology interface. Karine has previously worked as a computational linguist in the Computing Research Lab (CRL) in New Mexico, Inxight Software, the Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL) at the University of Maryland, and has taught Persian heritage language analysis at UC San Diego. Karine has founded the Society for Iranian Linguistics (SFIL) and is co-organizer of CAASL (workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages). She is currently a Lead Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the Human Language Technology group at MITRE.

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Languages
Persian, Eastern Armenian, English, French (native/near-native).
Western Armenian, Italian, Spanish (reading and basic conversation proficiency).
Basic working knowledge of Arabic.

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