Dirk Elzinga Author

Kenneth R. Beesley is a computational linguist with thirty years of experience in Natural Language Processing. He holds a D.Phil. in Epistemics from the University of Edinburgh and is currently a development architect in the Text Analysis group at SAP Labs. He spends his spare time researching the Deseret alphabet and other spelling reforms, Hopi history and language, and nineteenth-century pioneer trails in Utah and Arizona.

Dirk Elzinga is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics ad English Language at Brigham Young University. He holds a PhD from the Uiversity of Arizona in linguistics. His primary reserach interests are the documentation, description, and analysis of the Uto-Aztecan languages of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau.