Jason Riggle

Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
Director, Chicago Language Modeling Lab
University of Chicago
1010 E. 59th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: (773) 702-8528
e-mail: jriggle@uchicago.edu

·  CV

·  Teaching, Research, Projects, Talks

·  Chicago Language Modeling Lab


CV [pdf]

Teaching

  • Office hours: Monday 2:00pm and by appointment
  • Winter 2008
    • Programming for Linguists -- Ling 36601 [page]
    • Phonology 1 -- Ling 20800 [page]

 

more courses

Research

  • Modeling Linguistic Theories
    • With Jeff Heinz and Greg Kobele: Evaluating the Complexity of Optimality Theory, MS under review [pdf]
    • Contenders and Learning, WCCFL 2004 [pdf]

 

  • Learnability Theory and Linguistics
    • The complexity of hypotheses in Optimality Theory, forthcoming in Computational Linguistics [pdf]
    • Counting Rankings, LSA 2008 [pdf]

 

  • Information Theoretic approaches to Phonology
    • With John Goldsmith, Information theoretic approaches to phonological structure: the case of Finnish vowel harmony, MS under review [pdf]
    • Learning from surface forms via Lexical Entropy, LSA 2006 [pdf]

 

  • Agent-based models of language learning and language change
    • Agent Based models of multilingual learning, LSA 2008 [pdf]
    • Our NSF proposal for the Human and Social Dynamics Competition 2008 [pdf]

 

  • Rational Optimality Theory
    • Generation Recognition and Learning in Finite State Optimality Theory, PhD UCLA 2004 [page]
    • Computing Optimality -- A book based on the above. See chapters here.

 

  • Reduplication
    • Infixing Reduplication in Pima and its Theoretical Consequences, NLLT 2006 [pdf]
    • With Pamela Munro: Productivity and Lexicalization in Pima Compounds, BLS 2004 [pdf]
    • Nonlocal Reduplication, NELS 2003 [pdf]

 

more papers

Projects

  • CITELING -- A growing database of Bibtex references in linguistics and computation
  • BASELING -- A growing database of pedagogical problem sets in Linguistics
  • ERCULATOR -- Online software for doing constraint-based phonology
  • Constraint Wiki -- An online database for computational implementations of phonological constraints

more projects

Talks -- Handouts and descriptions of various talks can be found here.

THE CHICAGO LANGUAGE MODELING LAB is here.

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Last updated Nov. 4 2007