2024 Spring – LING4424/CS4744:
Computational Linguistics I

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Cornell University, Department of Linguistics, 2024

Instructor: Dr. Marten van Schijndel

Co-TA: Youngdong Cho

Key topics:

  • Finite state machines
  • Bayes Theorem
  • N-gram language modeling
  • Smoothing
  • Hidden Markov modeling
  • Probablistic syntactic parsing
  • Latent semantic clustering
  • Probability theory

Responsibilities:

  • Designing and updating assignments
  • Constructing autograders
  • Holding office hours (2hrs / week) and answering student questions on help forum
  • Giving guest lectures on current research in the field