Computational Linguistics
Professor Birnbaum is a co-chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests lie in digital humanities (especially computational philology), Medieval Slavic manuscripts, and Slavic historical linguistics. He also teaches computational methods in the humanities at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Course: Corpus Linguistics with Python and NLTK
Professor Degen is an associate professor of linguistics at Stanford. She directs the InterActive Language Processing Lab. Her research focuses on experimental and computational semantics and pragmatics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive science.
Course: Computational pragmatics
Dr. Han is a lecturer in linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh. She is interested in computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, natural language processing, methods for educational assessment and instruction, and computer-assisted language learning.
Course: Corpus linguistics with python and NLTK
Dr. Mortensen is a research scientist at the Language Technologies Institute at CMU. He works on the LORELEI project. He is interested in application of linguistics to natural language processing, phonology, morphology, linguistic typology, and historical linguistics.
Course: Low resource techniques in NLP
Professor Oflazer received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, and his MS in CS and BS in EE degrees from Middle East Technical University in Ankara Turkey. He is currently a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University – Qatar, where he is also the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Head of the Computer Science Program. He has held visiting positions at Computing Research Laboratory at New Mexico State University, and at the Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Prior to joining CMU-Qatar, he was on the faculty of Sabanci University in Istanbul Turkey and of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. He has worked extensively on developing NLP techniques and resources for Turkish and his current research interests are in statistical machine translation into morphologically complex languages, using NLP for language learning and machine learning for computational morphology.
Course: Computational morphology
Dr. Petitjean is a postdoctoral researcher at Heinrich Heine University in Duesseldorf. He is mainly interested in natural language processing and constraint solving. He is currently working on XMG-2, a modular and extensible tool for the development of linguistic resources.
Course: Language modeling with tree-adjoining grammars
Professor Tsvetkov is an assistant professor at the Language Technologies Institute at CMU. Her research interests lie at or near the intersection of natural language processing, machine learning, and linguistics. Her research currently focuses on multilingualism and low-resource NLP, interpretability of deep learning, controllable text generation, and NLP for social good.
Course: Low resource techniques in NLP
Professor Wiener is an assistant professor of modern languages at CMU. His research focuses on areas that are central to understanding the nature of the cognitive processes and representations that enable listeners to understand language and recognize spoken words. In particular, he is interested in lexical representation, lexical access, and first and second language acquisition.
Course: Introduction to linguistic data analysis using R