Teaching

Students

Past

PhD

Jason Mielens. 2016. Supervision for Syntactic Parsing of Low-Resource Languages. UT Austin > Ravel Law
Ben Wing. 2015. Text-Based Document Geolocation and its Application to the Digital Humanities. UT Austin > Amazon.
Dan Garrette, 2015. Inducing Grammars from Linguistic Universals and Realistic Amounts of Supervision. UT Austin > U. Washington (postdoc)
Mike Speriosu. 2013. Methods and Applications of Text-Driven Toponym Resolution with Indirect Supervision. UT Austin > Snapstream > Ejenta.
Elias Ponvert. 2011. Unsupervised partial parsing. UT Austin -> StoredIQ -> Dachis Group -> People Pattern.
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) -> U. Heidelberg (junior research leader) -> U. of North Texas (Assistant Prof, Lingusitics)
Pascal Denis. 2007. New Learning Models for Robust Reference Resolution. UT Austin -> INRIA Paris -> INRIA Lille

Masters

Grant DeLozier. 2016. Computational Methods for Geographically Grounding Toponyms. UT Austin -> Startup founder.
Nazneen Rajani. 2014. New Topic Detection in Microblogs and Topic Model Evaluation using Topical Alignment. Now a PhD student in UT-Austin CS.
James Evans. 2014. Characterizing the Relationship in Social Media Between Language and Perspective on Science-Based Reasoning as Justification for Belief.
Jason Mielens. 2014. Unknown Word Sequences in HPSG. (Thesis en route to PhD.)
Simon Hafner. 2014. Typesafe NLP Pipelines on Spark.
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. UT Austin -> Indeed.com -> Facebook.
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..

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Teaching

Previous Courses

Spring 2016: Language and Computers (undergraduate)
Fall 2015: Research in Computational Linguistics (graduate)
Spring 2013: Applied Natural Language Processing (graduate)
Spring 2013: Language and Computers (undergraduate)
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

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