Computational linguistics at UMass Amherst involves the application of computational methods and theory to the study of linguistics, and the development of computational theories of language learning and language processing. The faculty in this area are part of a broader community of researchers studying computation and language at the 5 Colleges, which along with computational linguistics also includes research in natural language processing and information retrieval.
Faculty
Michael Becker michael@linguist.umass.edu | ![]() | Research interests: Phonology, computational and experimental morphophonology, fieldwork, Semitic |
Rajesh Bhatt bhatt@linguist.umass.edu | ![]() | Research interests: Syntax, Semantics, Tree Adjoining Grammars, South Asian Languages |
Brian Dillon brian@linguist.umass.edu | ![]() | Research interests: Psycholinguistics, Syntax |
Gaja Jarosz jarosz@linguist.umass.edu | ![]() | Research interests: Phonology, Learnability, Computational Modeling, Acquisition |
Joe Pater pater@linguist.umass.edu | ![]() | Research interests: Phonological Theory and Learning, Computational and Experimental Methods |
Kristine Yu krisyu@linguist.umass.edu | ![]() | Research interests: Prosody from the Speech Signal on Up, Phonetics, Phonology |
Graduate students
Cerys Hughes ceryshughes@umass.edu | ![]() | Research interests: Computational Modeling, Phonology | Year started: 2020 |
Seoyoung Kim seoyoungkimk@umass.edu | ![]() | Research interests: Computational phonology, Fieldwork | Year started: 2019 |
Andrew Lamont alamont@linguist.umass.edu | ![]() | Research interests: Phonology, typology, computational linguistics | Year started: 2016 |
Seoyoung Kim seoyoungkimk@umass.edu | ![]() | Research interests: Computational phonology, Fieldwork | Year started: 2019 |
Seung Suk (Josh) Lee seungsuklee@umass.edu | ![]() | Research interests: Phonetics, Phonology and Computational Linguistics | Year started: 2019 |
Max Nelson manelson@umass.edu | ![]() | Research interests: Computational Linguistics, Phonology, Learnability | Year started: 2017 |
Alex Nyman anyman@umass.edu | ![]() | Research interests: Learnability and formal language theory | Year started: 2018 |
Yixiao Song yixiaosong@umass.edu | ![]() | Research interests: Computational Linguistics and Semantics | Year started: 2019 |
Recent dissertations
Caroline Anderson. 2021. Shifting the Perspectival Landscape: Methods for Encoding, Identifying, and Selecting Perspectives.
Brandon Prickett. 2021. Learning phonology with sequence-to-sequence neural networks.
Coral Hughto. 2019. Emergent typological effects of agent-based learning models in Maximum Entropy Grammar.
Claire Moore-Cantwell. 2016. The representation of probabilistic phonological patterns: Neurological, behavioral, and computational evidence from the English stress system.
Aleksei Nazarov. 2016. Extending Hidden Structure: Features, Opacity, and Exceptions.
Presley Pizzo. 2015. Investigating Properties of Phonotactic Knowledge Through Web-Based Experimentation.
Robert Staubs, 2014. Computational Modeling of Learning Biases in Stress Typology.