I am an associate professor of linguistics at the Graduate Center , City University of New York , and director of the master's program in computational linguistics .
I also work as a software engineer at Google Research .
I am the president and cofounder of the ACL Special Interest Group on Writing Systems and Written Language (SIGWrit).
Teaching
Summer schools
Tutorials
Publications
Kyle Gorman and Charles Reiss . In press. Natural class reasoning in segment deletion rules . Paper presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, to appear in the proceedings. [LOA-017]
Kyle Gorman and Charles Reiss . In press. Metaphony in Substance-Free Logical Phonology . Phonology to appear. [LOA-004] .
Kyle Gorman and Charles Reiss . 2025. How not to acquire exchange rules in Logical Phonology . In Proceedings of the 2025 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association . [LOA-009] .
Kyle Gorman. 2025. Greek fortition in Logical Phonology . (Ms.) [LOA-012]
Kyle Gorman. 2025. A Logical Phonology of some "minor rules" of Polish . Paper presented at the 12th North American Phonology Conference. [LOA-008]
Kyle Gorman and Yuval Pinter . 2025. Don't touch my diacritics . In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 2: Short Papers) , pages 285-291.
Rim Dabbous, Kyle Gorman, and Charles Reiss . 2025. Tutorial on Substance-Free Logical Phonology . Paper presented at the 2025 Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. [LOA-005] .
Kyle Gorman and Daniel Yakubov. 2024. Acquiring inflectional gaps with indirect negative evidence: Evidence from Russian . Poster presented at The 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society.
Kyle Gorman and Brian Roark . 2024. Abbreviation across the world's languages and scripts . In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computation and Written Language , pages 36-42.
Kyle Gorman and Richard Sproat . 2024. Was rongorongo an independent invention of writing? (Ms.)
Kyle Gorman and Cyril Allauzen . 2024. A* shortest string decoding for non-idempotent semirings . In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics , pages 732-739.
Adam Wiemerslage , Kyle Gorman, and Katharina von der Wense . 2024. Quantifying the hyperparameter sensitivity of neural networks for character-level sequence-to-sequence tasks . In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics , pages 674-689.Kyle Gorman. 2023. Notes on morphological defectivity . Paper presented at the University of Surrey.
Kyle Gorman and Richard Sproat . 2023. Myths about writing systems in speech & language technology . In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computation and Written Language , pages 1-5.
Kyle Gorman. 2023. Asymmetries in Latin glide formation . Paper presented at the 12th North American Phonology Conference.
Kyle Gorman and Charles Reiss . 2023. Maximal feature specification is feasible; minimal feature specification is not . Paper presented at the 47th Penn Linguistics Conference and the 46th Generative Linguistics in the Old World Colloquium.
Kyle Gorman. 2022. Computational morphology . In Mark Aronoff and Kirsten Fudeman, What is Morphology? , pages 246-273. 3rd edition. John Wiley & Sons.
Géza Kiss, Kyle Gorman, and Jan van Santen . 2021. Group-matching algorithms for subjects and items . arXiv:2110.04432 .
Kyle Gorman, Christo Kirov , Brian Roark , and Richard Sproat . 2021. Structured abbreviation expansion in context . In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021 , pages 995-1005. [Data]
Lucas F.E. Ashby, Travis M. Bartley, Simon Clematide , Luca Del Signore, Cameron Gibson, Kyle Gorman, Yeonju Lee-Sikka, Peter Makarov, Aidan Malanoski , Sean Miller, Omar Ortiz, Reuben Raff, Arundhati Sengupta, Bora Seo, Yulia Spektor, and Winnie Yan. 2021. Results of the second SIGMORPHON shared task on multilingual grapheme-to-phoneme conversion . In Proceedings of the 18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology , pages 115-125. [Data] [Software]
Kyle Gorman and Richard Sproat . 2021. Finite-State Text Processing [Software] [Errata for first printing]
[Review] (Now published by Springer.)
Kyle Gorman. 2020. Anatomy of an analogy . Paper presented at Stony Brook University.
Angie Waller and Kyle Gorman. 2020. Detecting objectifying language in online professor reviews . In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text , pages 171-180. Best Paper Award .Piotr Szymański and Kyle Gorman. 2020. Is the best better? Bayesian statistical model comparison for natural language processing . In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing , pages 2203-2212.
Kyle Gorman, Lucas F.E. Ashby, Aaron Goyzueta, Arya D. McCarthy , Shijie Wu, and Daniel You. 2020. The SIGMORPHON 2020 shared task on multilingual grapheme-to-phoneme conversion . In 17th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology , pages 40-50. [Data] [Software]
Jackson L. Lee , Lucas F.E. Ashby, M. Elizabeth Garza, Yeonju Lee-Sikka, Sean Miller, Alan Wong, Arya D. McCarthy , and Kyle Gorman. 2020. Massively multilingual pronunciation mining with WikiPron . In Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference , pages 4223-4228. [Data] [Software] Arya D. McCarthy , Christo Kirov , Matteo Grella , Amrit Nidhi, Patrick Xia , Kyle Gorman, Ekaterina Vylomova, Sabrina J. Mielke , Garrett Nicolai , Miikka Silfverberg , Timofey Arkhangelskij, Natalya Krizhanovsky, Andrew Krizhanovsky, Elena Klyachko, Alexey Sorokin, John Mansfield , Valts Ernštreits, Yuval Pinter , Cassandra L. Jacobs , Ryan Cotterell , Mans Hulden , and David Yarowsky . 2020. UniMorph 3.0: universal morphology . In Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference , pages 3922-3931. [Data] [Software] Kyle Gorman, Arya D. McCarthy , Ryan Cotterell , Ekaterina Vylomova, Miikka Silfverberg , and Magdalena Markowska. 2019. Weird inflects but OK: making sense of morphological generation errors . In Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning , pages 140-151.
Kyle Gorman and Charles Yang . 2019. When nobody wins . In Franz Rainer, Francesco Gardani, Hans Christian Luschützky and Wolfgang U. Dressler (ed.), Competition in Inflection and Word Formation , pages 169-193. Springer. [Preprint]
Sandy Ritchie , Richard Sproat , Kyle Gorman, Daan van Esch, Christian Schallhart, Nikos Bampounis, Benoît Brard, Jonas Fromseier Mortensen, Millie Holt, and Eoin Mahon. 2019. Unified verbalization for speech recognition & synthesis across languages . In INTERSPEECH , pages 3530-3534. [Data] Kyle Gorman and Steven Bedrick . 2019. We need to talk about standard splits . In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics , pages 2786-2791. Outstanding Paper Award . [Software ]
Sabrina J. Mielke , Ryan Cotterell , Kyle Gorman, Brian Roark , and Jason Eisner . 2019. What kind of language is hard to language-model? In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics , pages 4975-4989.Hao Zhang , Richard Sproat , Axel H. Ng, Felix Stahlberg , Xiaochang Peng , Kyle Gorman, and Brian Roark . 2019. Neural models of text normalization for speech applications . Computational Linguistics 45(2): 293-337.Kyle Gorman, Gleb Mazovetskiy, and Vitaly Nikolaev. 2018. Improving homograph disambiguation with machine learning . In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation , pages 1349-1352. [Data]
Axel H. Ng, Kyle Gorman, and Richard Sproat . 2017. Minimally supervised written-to-spoken text normalization . In ASRU , pages 665-670. [Data]
Joel Adams, Steven Bedrick , Gerasimos Fergadiotis , Kyle Gorman, and Jan van Santen . 2017. Target word prediction and paraphasia classification in spoken discourse . In Proceedings of the BioNLP Workshop , pages 1-8.
Heather MacFarlane, Kyle Gorman, Rosemary Ingham, Alison Presmanes Hill , Katina Papadakis, Géza Kiss, and Jan van Santen . 2017. Quantitative analysis of disfluency in children with autism spectrum disorder or language impairment . PLOS ONE 12(3): e0173936. [Data]
Gerasimos Fergadiotis , Kyle Gorman, and Steven Bedrick . 2016. Algorithmic classification of five characteristic types of paraphasias . American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 25(4S): S776-S787.Kyle Gorman and Richard Sproat . 2016. Minimally supervised number normalization . Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 4: 507-519. [Data]
Kyle Gorman. 2016. Pynini: a Python library for weighted finite-state grammar compilation . In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Statistical NLP and Weighted Automata , pages 75-80. [Software]
Kyle Gorman, Lindsay Olson, Alison Presmanes Hill , Rebecca Lunsford, Peter Heeman , and Jan van Santen . 2016. Uh and um in children with autism spectrum disorders or language impairment . Autism Research 9(8): 854-865.
Alison Presmanes Hill , Jan van Santen , Kyle Gorman, Beth H. Langhorst, and Eric Fombonne . 2015. Memory in language-impaired children with and without autism . Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 7: 19.Kyle Gorman, Steven Bedrick , Géza Kiss, Eric Morley , Rosemary Ingham, Metrah Mohammad, Katina Papadakis, and Jan van Santen . 2015. Automated morphological analysis of clinical language samples . In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology Workshop , pages 108-116.
Constantine Lignos and Kyle Gorman. 2014. Revisiting frequency and storage in morphological processing . In Proceedings of the Forty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society , pages 447-461.Kyle Gorman. 2014b. Exceptions to rhotacism . In Proceedings of the Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society , pages 279-293.
Kyle Gorman. 2014a. A program for phonotactic theory . In Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society: The Main Session , pages 79-93.
Maider Lehr, Kyle Gorman, and Izhak Shafran . 2014. Discriminative pronunciation modeling for dialectal speech recognition . In INTERSPEECH , pages 1458-1462.
Lars Hinrichs , Axel Bohmann, and Kyle Gorman. 2013. Real-time trends in the Texas English vowel system: F2 trajectory in GOOSE as an index of a variety's ongoing delocalization . Rice Working Papers in Linguistics 4: 1-12.Kyle Gorman. 2013. Generative phonotactics . University of Pennsylvania dissertation.
Kyle Gorman and Daniel Ezra Johnson . 2013. Quantitative analysis . In Robert Bayley, Richard Cameron, and Ceil Lucas (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics , pages 214-240. Oxford University Press. [Preprint PDF] [Supplemental material]
Kyle Gorman. 2011. Review: Defective Paradigms: Missing Forms and What They Tell Us . LINGUIST List 22.2894.
Kyle Gorman. 2011. Latin rhotacism for real . Ms., University of Pennsylvania. [Superseded by Gorman 2014b ]
Kyle Gorman, Jonathan Howell , and Michael Wagner . 2011. Prosodylab-Aligner: a tool for forced alignment of laboratory speech . Journal of the Canadian Acoustical Association 39(3): 192-193. [Software]
Josef Fruehwald and Kyle Gorman. 2011. Cross-derivational feeding is epiphenomenal . Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 2011:36-50. Kyle Gorman. 2010. The consequences of multicollinearity among socioeconomic predictors of negative concord in Philadelphia . U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 16(2): 66-75.
Kyle Gorman. 2009. Hierarchical regression for language research . University of Pennsylvania IRCS Technical Report 09-02.
Catherine Lai , Kyle Gorman, Jiahong Yuan , and Mark Liberman . 2007. Perception of disfluency: Language differences and listener bias . In INTERSPEECH , pages 2345-2348.
Patents
Grants
Open-source software
SWIPE' : robust pitch trackingProsodylab-Aligner : a forced alignerldamatch : statistical condition matchingPynini : finite-state grammar compilationUDTube : neural morphological analyzerCityLex : free multi-source English lexiconOpenFst : weighted finite-state transducersWikiPron : pronunciation data from WiktionaryDetector Morse : sentence boundary detectionPerceptronix : sparse and dense binomial and multinomial linear modelsBaum-Welch : OpenFst extension for Baum-Welch/expectation maximization trainingYoyodyne : small-vocabulary neural sequence-to-sequence generation with optional feature conditioning
Other
"The pale Usher–threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality." Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or The Whale
