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

 

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 CL [pdf]
    • Counting Rankings, LSA 2008 [pdf]
    • With Jeff Heinz and Greg Kobele: Comparing Typologies of Quantity-Insensitive Stress Systems With and Without Gradience. LSA 2005 [handout]
    • Modeling simultaneous learning of multiple phonological grammars LSA2005 [handout]
    • The learning and emergence of mildly context sensitive languages -paper presented at the European Conference on Artificial Life 2003, Dortmund Germany [pdf]
    • Grounding as Learning -paper presented at the European Summer School of Logic Language and Information 2003, Vienna Austria [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 [page]
    • Adaptive communication among collaborative agents: preliminary results with symbol grounding -paper presented at the International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics 2003, Oita Japan [page]

 

  • Rational Optimality Theory
    • Generation Recognition and Learning in Finite State Optimality Theory, PdD UCLA 2004 [page]
    • Computing Optimality -- A book based on the above. See chapters here.
    • Exploring the typology of quantity-insensitive stress systems without gradient constraints LSA2005 [handout]

 

  • Reduplication im Pima (and elsewhere)
    • 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]

 

  • Variation and Optionality
    • With Colin Wilson: Local Optionality, NELS 2004 [pdf]

 

  • Vowel Harmony
    • With John Goldsmith, Information theoretic approaches to phonological structure: the case of Finnish vowel harmony, MS under review [pdf]
    • Relational Markedness in Bantu Vowel Height Harmony, Phonology at Santa Cruz 6 1999 [pdf]

 

home

Last updated Nov. 4 2007