Publications

Book chapters

Linguistics

Bradley McDonnell, Blaine Billings, & Yanti. in revision. The languages of Sumatra and the Barrier Islands. In Bill Palmer & Ellen Smith-Dennis (eds.), The languages and linguistics of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Bradley McDonnell & Blaine Billings. 2025. Choosing fillers in Besemah. In Brigitte Pakendorf & Françoise Rose (eds.), Fillers: Hesitatives and placeholders (Research on Comparative Grammar 5), 169–210. Berlin: Language Science Press. (doi:10.5281/zenodo.15632051)

Blaine Billings & Bradley McDonnell. 2025. Fillers in the gray: Indeterminacy in their use in everyday conversation. In Brigitte Pakendorf & Françoise Rose (eds.), Fillers: Hesitatives and placeholders (Research on Comparative Grammar 5), 211–250. Berlin: Language Science Press. (doi:10.5281/zenodo.15632051)

Articles

Linguistics

Blaine Billings & Bradley McDonnell. 2024. Sumatran. Oceanic Linguistics 63(1), 112–174. (doi:10.1353/ol.2024.a928205)

Mathematics / Computer science

Blaine Billings, Kasifa Namyalo, & Dinesh G. Sarvate. 2020. GDD (n₁+n₂,3;λ₁,λ₂) for n₁=2 and n₂=5. Ars Combinatoria 149, 129–135; Ars Combinatoria 150, 281–293.

Blaine Billings. 2019. GDD(n,2,4;λ₁,λ₂) with equal number of blocks of three configurations. Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing 110, 9–18. (https://combinatorialpress.com/jcmcc-articles/volume-110/gddn-2-4-lambda_1-lambda_2-with-equal-number-of-blocks-of-three/)

Xenia Mountrouidou, Blaine Billings, & Luis Mejía-Ricart. 2019. Not just another internet of things taxonomy: A method for validation of taxonomies. Internet of Things 6. (doi:10.1016/j.iot.2019.03.003)

Blaine Billings, Kasifa Namyalo, & Dinesh G. Sarvate. 2017. GDD(n₁+n₂,3;λ₁,λ₂) with equal number of blocks of two configurations. Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing 102, 19–44. (https://combinatorialpress.com/jcmcc-articles/volume-102/gddn_1-n_2-3-lambda_1-lambad_2-with-equal-number-of-blocks-of-two-configurations/)

Conference proceedings

Linguistics

Blaine Billings. 2025. Building a comparative lexical database for the Sumatran languages. In Alessa Farinella & Jed Sam Pizarro-Guevarra (eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, 123–134. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts, Amherst. (https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/afla)

Blaine Billings, Bradley McDonnell, Johan Safri, & Wawan Sahrozi. 2025. Connecting automated speech recognition to transcription practices. In Jordan Lachler, Godfred Agyapong, Antti Arppe, Sarah Moeller, Aditi Chaudhary, Shruti Rijhwani, & Daisy Rosenblum (eds.), Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, 128–132. Honolulu, HI: Association for Computational Linguistics. (https://aclanthology.org/2025.computel-main/)

Nay San, Martijn Bartelds, Blaine Billings, Ella del Falco, Hendi Feriza, Johan Safri, Wawan Sahrozi, Ben Foley, Bradley McDonnell, & Dan Jurafsky. 2023. Leveraging supplementary text data to kick-start automatic speech recognition system development with limited transcriptions. In Harrigan, Atticus, Aditi Chaudhary, Shruti Rijhwani, Sarah Moeller, Antti Arppe, Alexis Palmer, Ryan Henke, & Daisy Rosenblum (eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, 1–6. Remote: Association for Computational Linguistics. (arXiv:2302.04975v1)

Mathematics / Computer science

Blaine Billings. 2018. Modelling correct operation of webcams for security purposes. In Proceedings of the 49ᵗʰ ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE2018). (doi:10.1145/3159450.3162339, PDF)

Other

Linguistics

Blaine Billings. 2020. Review of Bola Grammar Sketch (Data Papers on Papua New Guinea Languages 63) by Brent Wiebe & René van den Berg. Languages & Linguistics in Melanesia38.

Blaine Billings. 2020. Modality and what should would be acceptable: Syntactic promiscuity in Spanish and English double modal constructions. Charleston, SC: College of Charleston. (Bachelor's thesis.)

Last updated: 26 September 2025.