Erwin Chan

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

Current courses (Spring 2012)

LING 178 The Mathematics of Language and Linguistics

LING / C SC 439/539 Statistical Natural Language Processing

Past courses

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

Research

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