Ying Lin

Douglass 305

(520) 626-0678

Spring 08 Office Hours: W 1:15-3:15
yinglin@email.arizona.edu

Research Interests:

• Computational models of language learning, phonetics-phonology interface, bioacoustics

Recent Papers and Talks: 

• Weak representational bias and the discovery of linguistic categories from speech waveforms (draft, comments welcome; BUCLD slides)
• Stochastic Optimality Theory, local search, and Bayesian learning of hierarchical linguistic models (draft, comments welcome)
• Learning Stochastic OT: a Bayesian approach using Data Augmentation and Gibbs sampling (pdf) (slides), ACL 05.

Theses:

• Ph.D. dissertation (pdf); Master's thesis (pdf) 

Teaching:

Spring 2008

• LING 439/539: Statistical Natural Language Processing
• LING 581: Advanced Computational Lingusitics
  

Fall 2007

• LING 314: Introduction to Phonetics
• LING 478/578:Speech Technology