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