Current MA students

• Sammy Hitomi
• Olya Sukhanova

MA committees chaired

1. Michael Cook, 2024. Truncated and non-truncated A-not-A constructions: Frequency, probability, and genre effects.
2. Jill Van Wormer, 2024. Flora and fauna lexical indicators for prehistoric movement of Yuman peoples.
3. Harmit Chima, 2023. Understanding Netflix Korean drama fandom via online discourse: A topic modeling analysis of Reddit posts (Big Data Analytics).
4. Deanne Hunter, 2019. Sonority distance preferences in developmental dyslexia: Investigating linguistic universals for application in clinical approaches
5. 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
6. Andrea Scalero, 2017. Homophony and Conversion (Zero Derivation): The durational differences of seemingly phonetically identical lexeme pairs.
7. Hasan Autman, 2016. A corpus study of ethnic slurs and derogatory language across Reddit and YouTube with sentiment considered.
8. Keith Diedrick, 2016. Normies and Anons: A study of impoliteness, swearwords, and sentiments in anonymous speech online.
9. Roselene Freeman, 2015. Observing language changes in aging and Alzheimer's speech using information theory techniques.
10. Sara Kazemi, 2014. Computational simulation of linguistic change: An agent-based model.
11. Brandon Devine, 2014. A method of segmenting topical Twitter hashtags.
12. Albina Davliyeva, 2011. An investigation of Kazan Tatar morphology.
13. Steven Ehrenfeld, 2011. Predicting video game sales using an analysis of Internet message board discussions.
14. John Fitzpatrick, 2006. Grammar induction with a genetic algorithm.
15. Yoon Hee Lee, 2006. Automatic learning of semantic relations of NP PP syntactic patterns in medical texts.
16. Guoyan Lu, 2005. English 'break' verbs: An investigation on Levin verb classes.

MA thesis committee membership

1. Travis Putman, 2024. Effects of perceived gender and anthropomorphization of AI on linguistic alignment.
2. Xico Casillas, 2022. Assessing the Temporal Behavior of Semantic Neologisms in comparison to Lexical Neologisms.
3. Alex Dodge, 2019. Importing knowledge base information into distributional word vectors.
4. Guerrero, Kelly, 2019. Morphological variability in Spanish heritage speakers' comprehension of noun-adjective gender agreement.
5. Bandin, Yvette, 2018. Attraction-based interference in the comprehension of gender agreement in Spanish.
6. Kim, Sun Hee, 2017. Domain-specific sentiment analysis of firm brand (SDSU information systems).
7. Palmer, Timothy, 2016. A corpus-driven, keyword-centered approach to lexical bundles in grade comments.
8. Zakaria, Ghassan, 2015. Tayyib (طيب): a corpus-based approach.
9. Proffitt, Eric, 2015. Corpus-based methods for the unsupervised grading of short answer questions (SDSU, applied math).
10. Stephens, Elisabeth, 2014. Human evaluation on statistical machine translation.
11. Singh, Simmerdeep, 2014. Online portal for San Diego County (SDSU computer science).
12. Vartivarian, Salpi, 2013. A test case for Relevance Theory: The cognitive underpinnings of emphatic “do”.
13. Stephens, Kellen, 2013. Modeling human phonotactic judgments using classifiers.
14. Preetam Borah, 2012. Implementation of DTW algorithm for application security (M.S., computer science).
15. Daisuke Amano, 2012. A maximum entropy approach to Japanese zero subject antecedent detection.
16. Saurabh Gupta, 2012. Cloud computing technologies overview and comparison – “Microsoft Azure vs Amazon EC2” (M.S., computer science).
17. Brandon Webb, 2012. Performance and scene.
18. Jaibei Zhou, 2011. Educational tool for Charniak's Marker-Passing Algorithm (M.S., computer science).
19. Charles Schmidt, 2008. Effects of irregular topology in spherical self-organizing maps (M.S., Geography).
20. Jinyi Wang, 2006. A Maximum Entropy Approach to Higher Order Speaker Recognition (M.S., computer science).
21. Emily Wilson, 2006. Maximum Entropy as a New Approach to Unsupervised Military Email Classification.
22. Jing Liu, 2004. Instantaneous Classification of Speakers into Speaker Groups (M.S., computer science).

PhD thesis committee membership

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