I am student of Computer Science in the final stage of my studies currently working on my thesis leading to a German diploma (Master-equivalent) in Informatics.

My thesis is about speech recognition of bilinguals' spoken language employing so-called code-switching.
Further interests are language processing in general, specifically on Chinese and CJK, additionally language acquisition of Chinese.

My Projects are:

• cjklib - a Python-based programming library for accessing Chinese characters and their readings, http://code.google.com/p/cjklib/
• Eclectus - a small Han character dictionary for learners, http://code.google.com/p/eclectus/
• CharacterDB - an open and free database on the structure of Han characters, http://characterdb.cjklib.org/
• Computer based platform for learning Chinese http://www.karl-steinbuch-stipendium.de/kss_rosenberger.html (German)

Other projects:

• A forever alpha-versioned encoding converter for MP3 ID3 tags: http://code.google.com/p/id3encodingconverter/
• Several small scripts and programs posted randomly on this site mostly tagged under "Python", for example an image segmenter or a handwriting recognition widget.

Projects I contribute to:

• I maintain a personal branch of the Tegaki handwriting recognition project on Github.

You can find me on identi.ca/cburgmer (or twitter.com/cburgmer).