About the Company

The mission of Psycholinguistic Technologies, Inc., is to develop and commercialize software for individuals with aphasia and other language disorders utilizing our expertise (and the expertise of our academic partners) in two areas:

• Psycholinguistics: the study of language processing in both normal and neurologically impaired speakers
• Natural language processing: computer technologies for the processing of human language

Director

Marcia C. Linebarger, Ph.D.
Dr. Linebarger, who invented SentenceShaper™, received a PhD in Linguistics from MIT and carried out postdoctoral research in neurolinguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research has focused upon two related areas: syntactic processing in aphasia, and the development of natural language processing technology and other kinds of software that may assist individuals with language disabilities. For more information, see Dr. Linebarger's resume.

Consultants

Deborah A. Dahl, Ph.D.
Dr. Dahl received a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Minnesota and did postgraduate work in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She has over two decades of experience developing and integrating natural language understanding and speech recognition technologies, as well as the development of software products based on these technologies. Dr. Dahl, who serves as Director of Conversational Technologies, Inc., participates in standardization activities for speech technology which are currently being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium. For more information, see her resume.

Chuck Dillon
Chuck Dillon is a graduate and a professor at the Hussian School of Art in Philadelphia. He has served as a freelance illustrator for the Philadelphia Zoo and Highlights Magazine for Children.

Rosana Hart, M.L.S.
Rosana Hart is a librarian, writer, and webmaster. She received a B.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University and a Master's of Library Science from the University of California at Berkeley. She maintains the SentenceShaper website, edits its manuals, and works on product development. Her other sites are on a variety of topics.

Contact information is on the contact page. In addition, see the grants page for information about our academic partners.

SentenceShaper™ is a legal trademark of Psycholinguistic Technologies, Inc.