Education:
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota.
B.F.A. in Music from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. 

Work Experience:
Dr. Zacharski worked as a research fellow in the Linguistics Department at the University of Edinburgh examining the pragmatic
determinants of intonation. He has also worked as an instructor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Minnesota. 

Research Interests & Background:
Dr. Zacharski's principal area of interest is in examining the relationship between pragmatic factors and linguistic form
(particularly, prosodic form and the form of referring expressions).

Recent Publications:
Gundel, Jeanette K; Nancy Hedberg; and Ron Zacharski. Forthcoming. Statut cognitif et forme des anaphoriques indirects. Verbum. 

McShane, Marjorie, and Ron Zacharski. Forthcoming. Modularity in Knowledge Elicitation and Language Processing. Proceedings of the High Desert Linguistic Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Ludovik, Yevgeny, and Ron Zacharski. Forthcoming. MT and topic-based techniques to enhance speech recognition systems for professional translators. Proceedings of CoLing 2000. Saabrüken. 

Gundel, Jeanette K; Nancy Hedberg; and Ron Zacharski. 2000. Definiteness, accommodation, and cognitive status. Invited paper at the Conference on Linguistics and the English Language. Université de Toulouse- Le Mirail, France. 

Ludovik, Yevgeny, and Ron Zacharski. 1999. Multilingual document language recognition. Proceedings of the Machine Translation Summit VII. Singapore 317-323. 

Cowie, Jim; Yevgeny Ludovik; and Ron Zacharski. 1999. Language recognition for mono- and multi-lingual documents. Proceedings of the Vextal Conference. Venice 209-214. 

Cowie, Jim; Yevgeny Ludovik; and Ron Zacharski. 1999. An autonomous, web-based, multilingual corpus collection tool. Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Industrial Applications. 142-148. 

Delin, Judy, and Ron Zacharski. 1997. Pragmatic determinants of intonation contours for dialogue systems. International Journal of Speech Technology 1:109-120. 

Gundel, Jeanette; Nancy Hedberg; and Ron Zacharski. 1997. Topic comment structure, syntactic structure, and prosodic tune. Workshop on Prosody and Grammar in Interaction. Helsinki. 

Gundel, Jeanette; Nancy Hedberg; and Ron Zacharski. 1996. Cognitive status, concreteness, and the form of indirect anaphors. Workshop on Indirect Anaphora at the Discourse Anaphora and Anaphora Resolution Colloquium. Lancaster University. 

Gundel, Jeanette; Nancy Hedberg; and Ron Zacharski. 1996. Prosodic tune and information structure. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, 215-223. 

Delin, Judy, and Ron Zacharski. 1995. Pragmatic factors in the production of intonation contours for conversational systems. Proceedings of the Annual International Voice Technologies Conference 14:55-63. 

Delin, Judy, and Ron Zacharski. 1994. A conversational model of information structure and intonation. Focus and Natural Language Processing. IBM Working Papers of the Institute for Logic and Linguistics, ed. by Peter Bosch and Rob can der Sandt. Heidelberg: IBM 1:61-70. 

Vallduví, Enric, and Ron Zacharski. 1994. Accenting phenomena, association with focus, and the  recursiveness of focus-ground. Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 9:683-702. 

Gundel, Jeanette; Nancy Hedberg; and Ron Zacharski. 1993. Cognitive status and the form of referring expressions in discourse. Language 69:274-307. 

Current Projects:
Expedition project.