Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
University of Arizona
e-mail: echan3@email.arizona.edu
Office phone: 520-626-0678
Office location: Douglass 305
Office hours: W 12:00-1:30, Th 11:30-1:00, and by appointment
LING 178 The Mathematics of Language and Linguistics
LING / C SC 439/539 Statistical Natural Language Processing
LING 408/508 Computational Techniques for Linguists
LING 581 Advanced Computational Linguistics
LING 438/538 Computational Linguistics
LING 501 Formal Foundations of Linguistics
LING 388 Language and Computers
I am interested in linguistic and cognitive applications of machine learning from corpora. I am interested in how knowledge of linguistic competence is acquired from language usage, which is characterized by the poverty of stimulus / sparse data problem.
Dissertation: Structures and Distributions in Morphology Learning
Ph.D., Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2008