Barbara Ann Kipfer

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About Barbara Ann Kipfer

A lexicographer with more than four decades’ experience in writing and editing dictionaries, thesauri, and other word books and creating lexical content for the Internet and software. This experience extends to data curation, semantic research, natural language processing, artificial intelligence research, and traditional lexicography. Now retired, but with interest in part-time projects.Author of more than 70 books and calendars, including the bestselling 14,000 things to be happy about (tied for #11 in paperback bestsellers when published in 1990) which has sold more than 1.5 MILLION copies.Degrees earned include an MPhil and PhD in Linguistics, a PhD in Archaeology, an MA and PhD in Buddhist Studies, and BS in Physical Education. Also a former sportswriter/editor and part-time archaeologist.

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author, lexicographer
Barbara Ann Kipfer Work Experience Details
  • Workman Publishing
    Author
    Workman Publishing 1985 - 2024
    And Other Publishers
    14,000 things to be happy about (with over 1.25 million copies sold and foreign editions), thesauri and dictionaries, trivia and question books, happiness and spiritually themed books, archaeology reference books, list books. Publishers including Workman Publishing, National Geographic Books, Random House, HarperCollins, Wiley, Falcon Guides.See mention on Real Time with Bill Maher: https://deadline.com/2018/11/bill-maher-hbo-real-time-new-rules-shut-up-holiday-advice-1202503725/
  • Reference Wordsmith
    Lexicographer
    Reference Wordsmith 1980 - 2024
    Freelance data curation, semantic research, natural language processing, search engine and information retrieval, question-answering, and artificial intelligence research as well as developing and mapping ontologies, hierarchies, taxonomies, and classification schemes. Clients have included dictionary publishers (online and print), encyclopedia publishers, startup companies.
  • Zeta Global
    Senior Lexicographer
    Zeta Global Dec 2018 - Dec 2023
    Lexicographic and taxonomic analysis and development for data cloud and semantic technologies. (Temnos acquired by Zeta Global)
  • Temnos
    Chief Lexicographer
    Temnos Aug 2013 - Dec 2018
    Lexicographic and ontological analysis and development for semantic technologies and semantic profiling. Verification and testing of search, natural language, content generation applications, services, and tools.
  • Google
    Semantic Curation Specialist / Linguist
    Google Jun 2012 - Jul 2013
    Expert curation and prioritization of categorical data and categorical systems into hierarchies to facilitate organizing data in the Knowledge Graph. Consulting on lexical creation and mappings projects. For the Common Sense group in Machine Intelligence, working with multiple sense inventories, including their characteristics and issues in merging and creating alignments, as well as how to make use of corpora annotated with them. Also April 2014-December 2014. (contracts)
  • Federated Media Publishing
    Lexicographer
    Federated Media Publishing Jan 2011 - Aug 2012
    Lexicographic analysis and development for semantic technologies.
  • Wolfram Alpha, Llc
    Lexicographer
    Wolfram Alpha, Llc Jul 2009 - Apr 2010
    Lexicographic analysis and special projects on word data.
  • Dictionary.Com
    Chief Lexicographer/Managing Editor
    Dictionary.Com Jan 2000 - Jun 2009
    Creation of original content including all of the thesaurus data, new words lexicon, reverse dictionary, crossword solver, style guide, today in history, word origins, and word FAQs. Helped guide choice of public domain and licensed content.
  • Answers.Com
    Lexicographer And Researcher
    Answers.Com Aug 2005 - Oct 2005
    Also worked for the company's first two iterations as an Idealab company as Director of Research (1996 and 1998-99): Development of Internet question-answering service; answered all questions posed to system.
  • Ask.Com
    Research And Dictionary Specialist
    Ask.Com Jun 1999 - Jan 2001
    Developmental work on dictionaries; personal answering of general reference questions via email and online community.
  • Associative Computing/Mindmaker
    Head Lexicographer
    Associative Computing/Mindmaker 1997 - 1998
    Research and development of lexicon (based on WordNet) for natural language processing and intelligent agent system.
  • Textwise
    Lexicographic Analyst
    Textwise 1995 - 1996
    Lexicographic and classification/hierarchy work for information retrieval system; conducted dictionary research.
  • Idealab
    Author/Developer
    Idealab 1993 - 1996
    Writing, editing, development of multimedia reference works for software products, including all articles for a children’s encyclopedia for Knowledge Adventure. Also did projects for CitySearch, GoTo/Overture, Perfect Market, Smart Games.
  • General Electric Research
    Lexicographer
    General Electric Research Jun 1988 - Jun 1990
    (also worked there in 1996-1997) Artificial Intelligence Program. Wrote large, hierarchically arranged lexicon for use with a natural-language processor.
  • Bell Communications Research
    Lexicographer
    Bell Communications Research 1985 - 1988
    Artificial Intelligence & Information Science Research. Research of dictionaries and other reference works for development of a lexical knowledge base. (now Telcordia)
  • Ibm Research
    Lexicographer
    Ibm Research Apr 1984 - Apr 1985
    Lexical Systems Group. Research of dictionaries for inclusion in lexical knowledge base.
  • Chicago Tribune Media Group
    Work Prior To 1985
    Chicago Tribune Media Group 1979 - 1984
    Wang Electronic Publishing : Lexicographer, 1983-84.Yale University School of Organization and Management : Newsletter Editor, 1982-83.Laurence Urdang Inc. : Assistant to the Publisher (dictionary work); 1982.University of Houston : Director of Word Processing Center; 1981-82.City of Valparaiso, IN : Assistant to the Mayor; 1979-81.Chicago Tribune : Sports Scoreboard Page Editor; 1979. First woman sports writer for Chicago Tribune.

Barbara Ann Kipfer Skills

Linguistics Natural Language Processing Semantics Information Retrieval Lexicography Taxonomy Books Thesauruses Publishing Content Development Editing Reference Books Semantic Technologies Semantic Analysis Lexical Semantics Ontologies Computational Linguistics Content Strategy Semantic Web Semantic Search Research Ontology Classification Archaeology Dictionaries Copy Editing Analytics

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