Current MA students

• Joseline Ayala
• Nikitha Sridhar
• Siddharth Suresh Babu
• Jill Van Wormer

MA committees chaired

• Harmit Chima, 2023. Understanding Netflix Korean Drama Fandom via Online Discourse: A Topic Modeling Analysis of Reddit Posts (Big Data Analytics).
• Deanne Hunter, 2019. Sonority distance preferences in developmental dyslexia: Investigating linguistic universals for application in clinical approaches
• Beate Morales, 2019. Metaphors be with you: An examination of the metaphor "A COLLEGE DEGREE IS A DOORWAY" and how it relates to metaphors in general
• Andrea Scalero, 2017. Homophony and Conversion (Zero Derivation): The durational differences of seemingly phonetically identical lexeme pairs.
• Hasan Autman, 2016. A corpus study of ethnic slurs and derogatory language across Reddit and YouTube with sentiment considered.
• Keith Diedrick, 2016. Normies and Anons: A study of impoliteness, swearwords, and sentiments in anonymous speech online.
• Roselene Freeman, 2015. Observing language changes in aging and Alzheimer's speech using information theory techniques.
• Sara Kazemi, 2014. Computational simulation of linguistic change: An agent-based model.
• Brandon Devine, 2014. A method of segmenting topical Twitter hashtags.
• Albina Davliyeva, 2011. An investigation of Kazan Tatar morphology.
• Steven Ehrenfeld, 2011. Predicting video game sales using an analysis of Internet message board discussions.
• John Fitzpatrick, 2006. Grammar induction with a genetic algorithm.
• Yoon Hee Lee, 2006. Automatic learning of semantic relations of NP PP syntactic patterns in medical texts.
• Guoyan Lu, 2005. English 'break' verbs: An investigation on Levin verb classes.

MA thesis committee membership

• Xico Casillas, 2022. Assessing the Temporal Behavior of Semantic Neologisms in comparison to Lexical Neologisms.
• Alex Dodge, 2019. Importing knowledge base information into distributional word vectors.
• Guerrero, Kelly, 2019. Morphological variability in Spanish heritage speakers' comprehension of noun-adjective gender agreement.
• Bandin, Yvette, 2018. Attraction-based interference in the comprehension of gender agreement in Spanish.
• Kim, Sun Hee, 2017. Domain-specific sentiment analysis of firm brand (SDSU information systems).
• Palmer, Timothy, 2016. A corpus-driven, keyword-centered approach to lexical bundles in grade comments.
• Zakaria, Ghassan, 2015. Tayyib (طيب): a corpus-based approach.
• Proffitt, Eric, 2015. Corpus-based methods for the unsupervised grading of short answer questions (SDSU, applied math).
• Stephens, Elisabeth, 2014. Human evaluation on statistical machine translation.
• Singh, Simmerdeep, 2014. Online portal for San Diego County (SDSU computer science).
• Vartivarian, Salpi, 2013. A test case for Relevance Theory: The cognitive underpinnings of emphatic “do”.
• Stephens, Kellen, 2013. Modeling human phonotactic judgments using classifiers.
• Preetam Borah, 2012. Implementation of DTW algorithm for application security (M.S., computer science).
• Daisuke Amano, 2012. A maximum entropy approach to Japanese zero subject antecedent detection.
• Saurabh Gupta, 2012. Cloud computing technologies overview and comparison – “Microsoft Azure vs Amazon EC2” (M.S., computer science).
• Brandon Webb, 2012. Performance and scene.
• Jaibei Zhou, 2011. Educational tool for Charniak's Marker-Passing Algorithm (M.S., computer science).
• Jinyi Wang, 2006. A Maximum Entropy Approach to Higher Order Speaker Recognition (M.S., computer science).
• Emily Wilson, 2006. Maximum Entropy as a New Approach to Unsupervised Military Email Classification.
• Jing Liu, 2004. Instantaneous Classification of Speakers into Speaker Groups (M.S., computer science).

PhD thesis committee membership

• Matthew Zaslansky, 2019. A typology of overabundance in the Turkic causative (C.Phil, UCSD linguistics).
• Thompson, Amber, 2018. Morphological organization and first language acquisition: A case study of French verbs (C.Phil, UCSD linguistics).
• Patterson, Gary, 2018. Identifying author topic stance in online discussion forums (Ph.D., UCSD linguistics).
• Seyfarth, Scott, 2016. Contextual and morphological effects in speech production (Ph.D., UCSD linguistics).
• Kanwal, Jasmeen, 2015. The Principle of Least Effort and language evolution: A diachronic corpus study (C.Phil., UCSD linguistics).
• Lee, Leslie, 2013. Event structure and grammatical patterns: Resultative constructions (Ph.D., UCSD linguistics).
• Colavin, Rebecca, 2013. Phonotactic probability in Amharic: A psycholinguistic and computational investigation (Ph.D., UCSD linguistics).
• Lara Taylor. Maximum Entropy Models for Pronoun Resolution (C.Phil, UCSD linguistics).