Jacob Collard

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Information Technology Laboratory

About

I'm a computational linguist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology . My research interests are centered around semantics, knowledge management, and applications of linguistics to real-world problems in technology standards. This takes on many forms, including formal semantics and pragmatics, model-based systems engineering, corpus linguistics, terminology development, and epistemology. The applications in industry that I have studied include Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, artificial intelligence risk management, and computer security. I've worked alongside engineers, computer scientists, and mathematicians to create intersciplinary techniques to meet the problems these industries are facing in our changing context.

Selected Publications

Jacob Collard, Spencer Breiner, Frederic de Vaulx, Eric Simmon, Eswaran Subrahmanian, and Priam Varin. 2025a. Smart development for smart standards. OIML Bulletin, 66.

Jacob Collard, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Spencer Breiner, and Ram D. Sriram. 2025b. Standards as Discourse. International Design Conference.

Jacob Collard, Valeria de Paiva, and Eswaran Subrahmanian. 2024. Mathematical Entities: Corpora and Benchmarks. In Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, and Nianwen Xue, editors, Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 11080–11089, Torino, Italia. ELRA, ICCL.

Jacob Collard, Valeria de Paiva, Brendan Fong, and Eswaran Subrahmanian. 2022. Extracting Mathematical Concepts from Text. In Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2022), pages 15–23, Gyeongju, South Korea. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Jacob Collard. 2020. Unsupervised Formal Grammar Induction with Confidence. In Allyson Ettinger, Gaja Jarosz, and Joe Pater, editors, Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL 2020), pages 400–408, New York, New York. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Jacob Collard, Talapady Bhat, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Ira Monarch, Jonah Tash, Ram Sriram, and John Elliot. 2020. A Web Resource for Exploring the CORD-19 Dataset Using Root- and Rule-Based Phrases. Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 100(4):725–731.

John Elliot, Talapady Bhat, Ursula Kattner, Carelyn Campbell, Ram Sriram, Eswaran Subrahmanian, and Ira Monarch. 2020. Knowledge Management System and Process for Managing Knowledge. Patent Number 10,872,122.

Talapady Bhat, John Elliot, Ursula Kattner, Carelyn Campbell, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Ram Sriram, Jacob Collard, and Ira Monarch. 2018. Generating Domain Terminologies using Root- and Rule-Based Terms. (104).

Jacob Collard. 2018. Finite State Reasoning for Presupposition Satisfaction. In Manjira Sinha and Tirthankar Dasgupta, editors, Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Language Cognition and Computational Models, pages 53–62, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Teaching

  • APLN 505: Semantics and Pragmatics (Spring 2021; Montclair State University)
  • COGST 1101: Introduction to Cognitive Science (Spring 2018; Cornell University — with Professor Jennifer Schwade
  • LING 1101: Introduction to Linguistics (Fall 2017; Cornell University) — with Professor Miloje Despic
  • LING 4424: Computational Linguistics (Spring 2017; Cornell University) — with Professor John Hale
  • LING 1100-103: Endangered Languages (Fall 2016; Cornell University)