Welcome to the Jon safari. Make yourself at home, since this is a home page.

I have intersets in linguistics (computational linguistics, morphology, orthography, corpus linguistics, phonetics...), computers (Unix -- Debian, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc. ; Perl and regular expressions; LaTeX; hardware; character sets; html; image editing; databases), natural languages (Persian (aka. Farsi), Arabic, Turkic languages, Spanish, Bislama, German, Armenian, South Asian langauges, and just about any other language on the face of the planet), wrestling (collegiate), Persian and Indian music, among many other things.

Featured Stuff:

• Slideshow presentation (pdf) from the First International Conference on Aspects of Iranian Linguistics. Also available is a printer friendly version.


• Web demo of the Persian LG syntax parser


• Persian Lexicon Project - A freely available lexicon for Persian


• persianlg-0.8.2.tar.gz - Some Link-Grammar tools to analyze Persian syntax.


• persian-pckimmo-0.8.2.tar.gz - Some PC-Kimmo tools to analyze Persian morphology.


• perstem.pl - A stemmer and basic morphological parser for Persian. Also available is a web demo.


• My Syntax 630 paper (unpublished and not peer-reviewed) - Investigates separated complex predicates in Persian, and suggests possible explanation.


• Tim Buckwalter's Arabic Morphological Analyzer . It contains a massive Arabic dictionary, and it's Free. I have a partially working web demo.