courses {

Spring 2010

Ling 552 - Psycholinguistics (Choi)
Ling 654 - Language & Cognition (Choi)
Ling 696 - Statistical Machine Translation & Parsing (Gawron)

Spring 2009

Ling 795 - Simulation in Linguistic Theory (Malouf)
Ling 622 - Syntax & Discourse (Underhill)

}

projects {

Spring 2010

Coming soon!

Spring 2009

Simulating linguistic similarity as a function of geographical distance and population (Ling 795)

I created a Java implementation of the model presented in Nerbonne (2008) and introduced a population variable to measure how it interacted with geographical distance in influencing linguistic diffusion.

Communicative strategies in text-based Internet chat (Ling 622)

I exhibit how the pressure to communicate promptly may be positively correlated with the number of active chat participants (i.e., the busier the chatroom, the more chatters may feel the need to compete for attention). I hypothesize that busier chatrooms should result in discourse that exhibit more features of face-to-face conversation. Qualitative analysis is based on the discourse features described in Chafe and Danielewicz (1987).

}

Sara Kazemi, Computational Linguistics graduate student.

CONTACT: skazemi AT rohan DOT sdsu DOT edu