Computational Linguistics 1 (Spring 2026)

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Cornell University, 2026

Instructor: Dr. Marten van Schijndel

This class teaches some of the foundational techniques and theory behind computational language processing.

Key topics:

  • Finite State Machines
  • Tokenization / Smoothing
  • Probability Theory / Bayesian Methods
  • Information Theory
  • Hidden Markov Models
  • Context-Free Grammars / Parsing Algorithms
  • Semantic Roles / Semantic Frame Induction

Responsibilities:

  • Holding weekly office hours
  • Grading and providing feedback on student code