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Bob Mugele has had a varied working career, working as a butcher,
computer programmer, missionary/Bible translator, field linguist, professor
of linguistics, and computational linguist
Bob Mugele was the senior computational linguist at Oracle Corporation working with the ConText Group developing the linguistic engine for the Global Context project. Bob Mugele became known as "Jungle Bob" to his associates at Oracle.
Oracle ConText is a text management product that employs Natural Language Processing (NLP) to analyze unrestricted English text, and provides the ability to do theme searches in addition to keyword searches. Bob played a key role in the design of Global ConText which was intended to offer the same functionality for a number of other major languages. However, Global ConText never received adequate support from management and was never developed. Jungle Bob was first associated with the ConText technology beginning in 1990 when it was being developed by Artificial Linguistics, Inc. (ALI). He moved to Oracle when the technology was acquired from ALI.
Bob received a Bachelor's degree in German from the University of California (Berkeley). After completing his undergraduate degree, Bob worked for 10 years in the field of systems software development, including two years of operating system development at Control Data Corp.
In 1971 Bob and his family moved to
a remote Indian village in the municipality of Lalana, Oaxaca, Mexico.
In this jungle village, Bob and his family learned the Lalana Chinantec
language, provided for the medical and dental needs of the Chinantec people,
trained indigenous medical workers, introduced a vernacular literacy program
to the Chinantec people, trained indigenous literacy teachers, produced
linguistic studies of Lalana Chinantec, produced a translation of the Lalana
Chinantec New Testament, and produced several editions of a hymnal in the
Lalana Chinantec language. All of this work was performed under the auspices
of the Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Bob received a Ph.D. in linguistics fron the University of Texas (Austin). His dissertation research was an in depth acoustic phonetic study of Lalana Chinantec prosodic phenomena, especially the tone system and ballistic syllables. For this work Bob received the A.A. Hill award given annually for the outstanding dissertation in linguistics.
Between 1983 and 1990 Bob Mugele served on the linguistics faculty of
the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Texas at Arlington.
At the University of Texas at Arlington he was awarded a grant to create
a linguistic research laboratory and an acoustic phonetics laboratory.
He taught graduate level courses in phonetics and phonology, directed the
research of numerous graduate students and served as director of the linguistics
and phonetics laboratories.
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Jungle
Bob is an enthusiastic birder. Check out my birding
page.
Jungle Bob likes to play basketball. It's a socially acceptable
way to vent your aggressions.
Jungle Bob likes to ride bicycles. He still rides regularly. He had an undistinguished career in amateur road racing
in the 1950's and 1960's..
Jungle Bob will play cribbage anytime, anywhere.
Check out my cribbage page.
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