The most important questions of life are, for the most part, really
only questions of probability.
—Laplace (1812)
Special wards in lunatic asylums could well be populated with
mathematicians who have attempted to predict random events from
finite data samples.
—Epstein (1977)
Teaching
Spring 2013
On leave
Old courses
Ling 354 Language and Computers Ling 503 Functions of Language Ling 520 Fundamentals of Linguistics Ling 523 Morphology CS 558 Computer Simulation Ling 571 Computational Corpus Linguistics
CS/Ling 581 Introduction to Computational Linguistics
Ling 620 Advanced Formal Syntax Ling 681 Statistical Methods in Comp Ling Ling 696 Adv Stat Meth in Comp Ling Ling 795 Seminar: Machine Learning Ling 795 Seminar: Text Mining Ling 795 Seminar: Analyzing Web Texts Ling 795 Seminar: Dependency Parsing Ling 795 Seminar: Simulation in Linguistic Theory Ling 795 Seminar: Word-based Morphology
Ling 7800-035 Introduction to Probability and Information Theory