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Christopher Johnson

Last activity: 4 days ago

The Name Inspector

Seattle, Washington 98112

206-274-6227

What Christopher does

I help people name their companies, products, and services, and I write about names on my blog The Name Inspector. I'm also the founder of Phrasetrain, which applies user-generated natural language technology to web search. Phrasetrain is tiny, so I wear lots of hats: linguist, developer, web/graphic designer, evangelist, etc.

What Christopher does best

I combine verbal creativity with a strategic, linguistically sophisticated approach to the naming process. I help my clients identify ideas and feelings that a name should evoke, formulate strategies for evoking them (metaphors, indirect associations, speaking styles, etc.), find the perfect words to realize those strategies, and use those words as raw materials to create vivid, relevant, and great-sounding names.

What does Christopher need?

I'm interested in meeting potential clients, collaborators, critics, advisers, and business partners. I'd love some free/cheap short-term co-working space if anyone knows of such a thing.

Education

PhD, Linguistics, UC Berkeley BA with Honors, Interdisciplinary (Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology), University of Chicago

Experience

Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Senior Technical Staff Member, Human-Computer Interaction, AT&T Labs Research Computational Linguist and Knowledge Engineer, Soliloquy, Inc. Researcher, FrameNet project, International Computer Science Institute Linguist, Brand Language Group, Lexicon Branding


Christopher's location

Seattle, Washington 98112