PhD Supervisees

• Mike Speriosu:  Toponym disambiguation and geographic visualization.
  
• Ben Wing: Document geolocation.
  

Research Assistants

• TeXIT
• Grad: Ben Wing
  
• MURI
• Grad: Jason Mielens, Liang Sun
  

PhD

• Elias Ponvert, 2011. Unsupervised partial parsing. UT Austin -> StoredIQ -> Dachis Group.
  
• Fred Hoyt, 2010. Negative Concord in Levantine Arabic. UT Austin -> University of New England (adjunct faculty)
  
• Alexis Palmer, 2009. Semi-automated annotation and active learning for language documentation. UT Austin -> Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics at Saarland University (postdoc).
• Pascal Denis, 2007. New Learning Models for Robust Reference Resolution. UT Austin -> INRIA Paris -> INRIA Lille
  

Masters

• Erik Skiles. 2012. Document geolocation using language models built from lexical and geographic similarity. Now at Applied Research Labs.
  
• Weiwei Ding. 2011. Weakly supervised part-of-speech tagging for Chinese using label propagation. Now at Indeed.com.
  
• Mike Speriosu. 2011. Semisupervised sentiment analysis of tweets based on noisy emoticon labels. (Thesis en route to PhD.)
• Ben Wing. 2011. Data-rich document geotagging using geodesic grids. (Thesis en route to PhD.)
  
• Joshua Brewster. 2010. Dependency Based CCG Derivation and Application. Now at 3M.
  
• Srivatsan Ramanujam, Factorial Hidden Markov Models for Full and Weakly Supervised Supertagging. Now at Salesforce.com
• Robert Elwell. 2008. Robust Methods for Automated Discourse Connective Argument Head Identification. Now at Vertive Inc..

Also, check out the rest of the gang.

I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in computational linguistics as well as more in-depth seminars, such as computational syntax. In the future, I plan to teach seminar courses on parsing, dialog systems, and machine learning for natural language.

Computational linguistics bridges both linguistics and computer science. I firmly believe that both have an equally important role in doing good work in computational linguistics, despite recent trends which require considerably less linguistic sophistication of computational linguists than in previous decades. My courses require linguistics students to master many aspects of computer science and computer science students to develop a deeper understanding of human languages.

If you are interested in finding out more about computational linguistics courses at UT Austin, see the Computational Linguistics Lab webpage for information.

Current Courses

• Spring 2013: Applied Natural Language Processing (graduate)
• Spring 2013: Language and Computers (undergraduate)

Previous Courses

• Fall 2012: Grounded Models of Meaning (graduate)
• Fall 2012: Language and Computers (undergraduate)
• Spring 2012: Applied Text Analysis (graduate)
• Fall 2011: Introduction to Computational Linguistics (graduate)
  
• Fall 2011: Data-intensive Text Processing with MapReduce (graduate)
• Spring 2011: Language and Computers (undergraduate)
  
• Spring 2011: Natural Language Processing (undergraduate)
• Fall 2010: Semisupervised Learning for Computational Linguistics (graduate)
• Fall 2010: Language and Computers (undergraduate)
• Spring 2010: Language and Computers (undergraduate)
• Spring 2010: Natural Language Processing (undergraduate)
• Fall 2009: Language and Computers (undergraduate)
• Fall 2009: Analyzing Linguistic Data (graduate)
• Spring 2009: Language and Computers (undergraduate)
• Spring 2009: Semisupervised Learning for Computational Linguistics (graduate)
• Fall 2008: Natural Language Processing (undergraduate)
• Fall 2008: Computational Syntax (graduate)
• Spring 2008: Language and Computers (undergraduate)
• Spring 2008: Spinning Straw into Gold: Automated Syntax-Semantics Analysis (graduate)
• Spring 2007: Computational Linguistics I (graduate)
• Spring 2007: Categorial Grammar (graduate)
• Spring 2007: Language and Computers (undergraduate)
• Fall 2006: Introduction to Computational Linguistics (undergraduate)
• Fall 2006: Computational Linguistics II (graduate)
• Spring 2006: Computational Linguistics I
• Spring 2006: Computational Syntax
• Fall 2005: Computational Linguistics II