Rob Malouf
Professor of Linguistics
Chair, Department of Linguistics and
Asian / Middle Eastern Languages
Affiliated faculty, Big Data Analytics program
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-7727
(619) 594-7111
Office: SHW 201
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Office Hours: Tu, Th 1:00–2:00 or by appointment
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
Spring 2025
CS/Ling 581 Computational Linguistics
Fall 2024
Ling 571 Computational Corpus Linguistics
Old courses
Ling 354 Language and Computers
Ling 501 Fundamentals of Linguistics
Ling 503 Functions of Language
Ling 520 Fundamentals of Linguistics
Ling 523 Morphology
CS 558 Computer Simulation
Ling 571 Computational Corpus Linguistics
CS/Ling 581 Computational linguistics
Ling 583 Statistical methods for text analysis
Ling 620 Advanced Formal Syntax
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 795 Seminar: Simulation in Linguistic Theory
Ling 795 Seminar: Corpus-based typology
Ling 795 Seminar: Collostructional analysis
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
57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2024), Helsinki, August 21–24, 2024
21st International Morphology Meeting (IMM 21), Vienna, August 28–30, 2024
Language & Languages at the crossroads of Disciplines, Paris, September 12–14, 2024
16th International American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference (AACL 2024), University of Oregon, September 13–15, 2024