My name is Jeff Baugher. This is my last semester here at Cal as an undergrad thank the gods and fishes. I'm majoring in Cognitive Science with an emphasis in artificial intelligence approaches to natural language processing. I have had training in several different computer languages and have been programming for 5 years or so. I play alot of volleyball, confuse myself with Linux, and program really silly innane games in my free time.
J
My name is Kazunori Miyahata. I am a visiting scholar from Japan, intending to stay here until this summer.
I am auditing this class because I am interested in semantics, particularly in comparative studies in meaning (and lexicon) between English and Japanese and have found that computational device should be helpful for corpus studies.
I have a little experience with computers, no more than enjoying (playing with) a Macintosh--possibly qualified for "an evangelist" such as went out to MacWorld EXPO which was held in SF early this month, though.
Thank you.
howdy folks.
This is (even though you've seen it in the header already) Margaret Urban. I'm a first year grad in linguistics. I've done a tiny amount of programming and want to learn more - it astonishes me what people don't use computers for. I use what my UNIX-based brother calls "Macintrash" but I'm eager to branch out. Meanwhile it's great to have a structured informative forum for . . . web surfing.
MYU
My name is Pongsak. I'm a second year grad student in linguistics. I'm interested in historical linguistics esp. comparative Tai. South East Asian linguistics also interests me. I don't know much about computer and that's why I'm taking this course. I hope that the knowledge from this course will help me with my future research in historical linguistics.
Bye, Pongsak
Hi all,
My name is Ronald Sprouse, and I am a 4th-year graduate student in Linguistics. My primary area of interest is phonology.
This semester my goal is to work on the compilation and presentation of a lexical database of Ingush. This is part of an ongoing project sponsored by Johanna Nichols, and of which Zev Handel (also in the class) has been a major participant.
Hi! My name is Ryan...I'm a 4th year undergraduate student in Cognitive Science. One of my main interests is artificial intelligence. I've taken a couple of computer classes and have always been fascinated by the internet.
Ryan
Hi,
My name is Wilbert Spooren. I'm a visitor from Tilburg University (Tilburg, The Netherlands). I did an MA on theoretical linguistics and a PhD on text linguistics, which is also my current field of interest. The PhD dealt with textual relations like Cause-Consequence and Contrast, and the way these get expressed in different languages. I am following this course as an auditor, to learn about the kind of computational tools the Berkeley Linguistics department presents to its students to do text analysis. I have quite a lot of experience in working with some of the tools mentioned on the handout (such as statistical analysis, LaTeX, TEI) and am a relative novice w.r.t. others (such as Perl and HTML).
Best, Wilbert Spooren
Greetings and salutations all. I'm Vince Dacanay, a Junior transfer student and Cog Sci major. I believe Elvis is alive and square pizzas taste better than round ones. I was originally drawn to linguistics because it sounded like italian food. I have bad habit of staying up 'til 5 AM at which time I tend to get very strange. I'm mostly a self taught hack programmer (not as in "hacker" but more like, I can do it- just ugly). 99.734% of my computer experience is on a PC. I was surfing the net on Wednesday when I came across this class and thought it sounded like a good idea, so here I am. You can check out my web page at www.netcom.com/~vtd.
Boatdrinks,
-Vince
"Apparently I'm insane, but I'm the happy kind"
Hi,
I'm a seventh- (!!) year graduate student in East Asian Languages,
specializing in Chinese historical linguistics.
I've dabbled on and off with computers for some time, particularly in the last few years in my work at the STEDT project run by Professor Matisoff of the linguistics department. But I'm looking to be more sophisticated in my computer work and in applying computational tools to my own research interests.
Zev Handel
Hi all,
I'm Jason Patent, 3rd-year grad student in linguistics. I'm primarily interested in Berkeley/UCSD-style cognitive linguistics. Area-wise, my "specialty" is Mandarin Chinese, and I've got a growing interest in Tibeto-Burman.
As far as computers go, I've had a bit of programming experience (BASIC as a kid, Scheme is CS3 and 61A here at Berkeley). I've enjoyed programming, and am looking forward to finding practical applications relating to linguistics.
Jason
Paula Rogers, 3rd year ling grad student, historical & corpus linguistics, LP records, almost no computer experience.
Hi all,
My name is Galen Sibanda and I come from Zimbabwe.I am a second year graduate student majoring in Linguistics. My main interests are African languages (linguistic structure) and lexicography.I am also interested in education,particularly the teaching of languages.I have taken only one computer class so far. It was an introductory course which, among other things, involved a bit of programming.
My name is Chaitee Sengupta. For linguists, or other interested parties, my name is Bengali for a month in the lunar calander corresponding to April/May. (Strangely enough, I was born in January.) I'm a senior majoring in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, this will be my last semester. I've taken a few programming courses here which were in Scheme/LISP and C++.
I'm interested in computer speech synthesis, language change, Dravidian languages and other stuff too. Outside of linguistics I'm interested in Odissi which is a classical indian dance.
-Chaitee
My name is Maria Moreno. I am from Spain. I am an EAP student. Major: Linguistics I am doing my Ph D in Spanish Linguistics in Universidad Complutense de Madrid. This is my 3 year. My interests are historical linguistics and pragmatics. I was working for the Real Academia Espanola (de la Lengua), where we were developping two different corpora: CREA and CORDE. CREA is a big corpus of contemporary Spanish (since 1970), and CORDE is a diachronic corpus. Both of them have texts from Spain and from LatinAmerica.
Hi Everyone,
My name is Danny Granville and I am a junior planning to major in linguistics and hoping to minor in computer science. I've done some programmming in Common Lisp, Scheme (a dialect of Lisp), C++, assembly language (MIPS), and am currently taking a class that will teach me Java. I have done a little HTML and at one time had a so-so page, but my computer ate it. =)
My other interests are tennis, tutoring, and dabbling in art. If anyone wants to join me for one of these activities, or to work on the linguistics homework, just send me an e-mail and I'll be happy to join you.
Zaijian.
David Peterson, sixth year linguistics grad student Interests: historical syntax, discourse, typology, books little computer experience
Hello. I'm Justin Covey, a third-year Linguistics major. My interests seem to change periodically, but all I know is that I'm a linguist. I have a particular interest in certain areas of linguistics relating to political and clinical psychology (a vestige of my childhood dream to be a psychiatrist.)
My experience with computers is that I tinker and that I like operating systems. I don't know much though.
See you all in class.
Justin
Hi, everybody,
I am a last-year graduate student in Psychology, doing work on child language development. I am also involved in the Turkish Electronic Living Lexicon [=TELL] project along with Sharon Inkelas, JB Lowe, and Orhan Orgun.
I don't have any programming experience except for learning PASCAL in a lecture format, with no "hands-on" experience associated with it, some 10 years ago in Istanbul!
Database programming, large-scale corpus analysis, text-encoding are some of my recently developed interests, and I hope to be able to (at least) explore them by auditing 158.
Aylin Kuntay.
My name is Diana Evans, and I am a senior majoring in linguistics and geography. I have worked at the residential computing facility, and am currently employed as a sales assistant at The Scholar's Workstation, your campus computer store. I enjoy cooking, hiking, card-playing and reading.
Good morning,
My name is James Mayled, I am a junior majoring in CogSci. I am interested in (and hope to learn more about) artificial intelligence and natural language processing. As for my experience with computers, I've taken two intro programming courses in the CS department here at Berkeley.
James
I'm interested in learning about the computational tools for research in linguistics, particularly for the development of a lexical database of Palestinian Arabic.
And if I'm not snorkling at Hideaways, I'll settle for surfing the web.
Miriam R. L. Petruck, Ph.D.