Kevin Brubeck Unhammer, Computational Linguistics, University of Bergen
Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
Master's of Computational Linguistics at the University of Bergen (UiB), Norway; my thesis was on parallel treebanks and LFG-informed phrase alignment, part of the XPAR-project ("Language diversity and parallel grammars").
On this page you'll find the various classes I've taken at UiB and the University of Amsterdam, along with some papers (literature list at bibsonomy.org/user/unhammer); more about me at my wiki user-page.
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Fall 2009
Worked as a seminar teacher for the Prolog course INFO232.
Apertium
- Unhammer, Kevin; Trosterud, Trond. "Reuse of free resources in machine translation between Nynorsk and Bokmål". In: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation / Edited by Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Francis M. Tyers. Alicante : Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, 2009, pp. 35-42
- Presentation of apertium-nn-nb delivered at FREERBMT09, Alicante 2009.
DASP303
Semester assignment (in Norwegian):
- «Machine learning compounds»: discovering epenthetics of compound words with TiMBL and Weka.
DASP304
Semester assignment (in Norwegian):
- «Deep transfer with Constraint Grammar»: Free/Open-Source Machine Translation in a hybrid of Matxin, VISL CG-3 and Apertium, tested with Faroese→English.
Spring 2009
Worked as a seminar teacher for the course KOGVIT101: Introduction to Cognitive Sciences this semester, also got a place in Google Summer of Code with Apertium.
Apertium
- Project: machine-translation between Nynorsk and Bokmål
- Presentation of Constraint Grammar in Apertium delivered at the CG workshop at Nodalida, Odense 2009.
DASP302
DASP203
Fall 2008
Worked as a seminar teacher for the Prolog course INFO232.
LING305
Semester assignment (in Norwegian):
- «Ein gradert progressivkategori på norsk»: a corpus study of soft constraints on stative verb phrases in Norwegian pseudo coordinations («sat og visste» // ‘sat there (and was) knowing’)
Spring 2008: exchange to the University of Amsterdam
Documented on the blog Amsterdamreisen.
Unsupervised Parsing
Assignments
- Presentation on induction of dependency grammars using Expectation Maximation / the Inside-Outside algorithm (following Klein & Manning 2004, «a Dependency Model with Valence»)
- an implementation of this inductive parser, in Python (source code and description, project report with experimental results).
Syntax
Assignments:
- presentation on non-referential nominals in HPSG (expletive and idiomatic, from chapter 11 in Sag 2003)
- final project on complex predicates in LFG vs HPSG, connecting this to lexical integrity and compositionality
Semantics
Assignments:
- discussion of "Temporal Parts" (an article by Ted Sider 2008)
- essay about the cognitive plausibility of certain axioms of time
- essay about semantic typology and the spatial basis of temporal metaphors in the mind
Set Theory
Fall 2007
DASP104
(Norwegian) HOWTO on installing Slime and SBCL on the Solaris-machines at UiB.
DASP105
PSYK101
Spring 2007
LING111
Some .emacs-lisp for making XLE more user-friendly when working with LFG grammars.
DASP201
(Norwegian) notes on syntax.
Fall 2004 - Spring 2006: Oslo
Computers-Language, Logics and Psychology
Various classes in programming, analytic philosophy, statistics, logic, cognitive science…
From INF1010 @ UiO, spring 2005:
- My entry in the N-Queens Java contest (about 6-7 times slower than first place, but I did get a prize :D)
Other work
- Norwegian Psychology Students' Associations web site
- Ove Kvavik (artist) web site
- teensy emacs interface to certain Norwegian dictionaries (Bokmål and Nynorsk dictionaries, and slx-dict, an Engelsk-Norwegian dictionary for translating Free Software)
- Bokmål translation of Audacity, the Free Audio Editor (made by, among others, my cousin)
- Nynorsk translation of Noserub, the Decentralized Social Network
- My Ohloh-profile
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