Rob Malouf
Professor
Faculty advisor, Linguistics Student Association
Department of Linguistics and
Asian / Middle Eastern Languages
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-7727
Office: SHW 244
Office Hours: Tue 11:00am–12:00pm, Thu 3:30pm–4:40pm, or by appt
Certificate in Computational Linguistics
Certificate in Text Analytics
Minor in Text Analytics
The most important questions of life are, for the most part, really only questions of probability. —Laplace (1812)
Special wards in lunatic asylums could well be populated with mathematicians who have attempted to predict random events from finite data samples. —Epstein (1977)
Teaching
Fall 2019
Ling 501 Fundamentals of Linguistics
Ling 571 Computational Corpus Linguistics
Ling 620 Advanced Formal Syntax
Spring 2020
On leave
Old courses
Ling 354 Language and Computers
Ling 503 Functions of Language
Ling 520 Fundamentals of Linguistics
CS 558 Computer Simulation
CS/Ling 581 Introduction to Computational Linguistics
Ling 583 Statistical Methods in Text Analysis
Ling 681 Statistical Methods in Comp Ling
Ling 696 Adv Stat Meth in Comp Ling
Ling 795 Seminar: Machine Learning
Ling 795 Seminar: Text Mining
Ling 795 Seminar: Analyzing Web Texts
Ling 795 Seminar: Dependency Parsing
Ling 795 Seminar: Simulation in Linguistic Theory
Ling 795 Seminar: Word-based Morphology
Ling 795 Seminar: Information Theory in Linguistics
Ling 795 Seminar: Sociolinguistic Typology
Ling 795 Seminar: Language Universals
Ling 795 Seminar: Sociolinguistic Typology
Ling 7800-035 Introduction to Probability and Information Theory
Machine Learning for NLP (Seoul National University)
Research
Toolkit for Advanced Discriminative Modeling
Instrumented Item-and-Pattern Morphology
Rescorla-Wagner associative learning
Current and past graduate students
Google Scholar, Github, ResearchGate
Events
17th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, Seattle, July 9–10, 2020
North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad open round, January 23, 2020
Society for Computational in Linguistics (SCiL), New Orleans, January 2–5, 2020
Society of Korean Linguistics, Seoul National University, Decemeber 12–14, 2019