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Sandiway Fong

Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
Department of Computer Science
Director, HLT Master's Program (see website here)
Cognitive Science Program Member
SLAT Program Member
Phone: 520 626 5657
Fax: 520 626 9014
Office: 311 Douglass
Email: sandiway at email dot arizona dot edu
About me: (Updated 5/2004) here
Resume: (Updated 2015) PDF
Selected Papers: here

Computational Linguistics Laboratory
Location: 301/309 Douglass
Phone: 520 626 0549
Click on brochure! (4/15/2014)

Contents: Courses Research New! Research Software New! Sudoku Software: Logic reasoning Sony Vaio VGN-U71P Links

Slides from the Statistics in Linguistics colloquium (March 2rd 2006) here

Recent and upcoming courses.

CSC/ECE/PHIL/PSYC/LING 696i Computational Intelligence

An interdiscplinary graduate seminar course on computation and intelligent systems.

General course homepage http://www.ece.arizona.edu/~compintell/.

Slides: (language section) Spring 2005.

LING/C SC/PSYC 438/538 Computational Linguistics

An advanced introduction to computational linguistics.

Syllabus, slides: Fall 2015.

LING 388 Computers and Language

A hands-on introductory course to computational linguistics for undergraduates. One goal of the course is to develop the skills necessary to write and implement natural language grammars.

Syllabus, slides: Fall 2014

C SC 620 Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing

Natural language processing (NLP) is a broad and exciting field at the intersection of computer science, formal linguistics and cognitive science. This course will survey selected topics in NLP.

Syllabus, slides: (WordNet, Machine Translation) Spring 2004.

LING 696G Computational Linguistics Seminar

Syllabus, slides: Spring 2004.

LING 364 Introduction to Formal Semantics

An introduction to language and formal semantics.

Syllabus, slides: Spring 2006.

LING 581 Advanced Computational Linguistics

An advanced project/tools-based course designed to give students experience with software packages.
Pre-requisite: LING/C SC 538
IMPORTANT:ROOM SHANTZ 338!!!

Syllabus, slides: Spring 2015.

LING/C SC/PSYC 408/508 Programming for Linguistics

An introduction to computers and programming for linguists.

Syllabus, slides: Fall 2015.

LING 696G Topics in Computational Linguistics

An advanced seminar on implementing contemporary syntactic theory.

Syllabus, slides: Spring 2015.

Independent Study

Students working with me for Independent Study (Spring 2014):

Left to right, top to bottom: Elly Matthias, Heather Lent, Guy Pearson, Eric Graham, Mithun Paul, Monica Larcom and Michael Capizzi.

Research Areas

 [This is still under construction.]

Introduction
 
 

 Modeling Linguistic Theory on a Computer: From GB to Minimalism
Slides from the MIT IAP Computational Linguistics Fest (webpage), January 14th 2005.

powerpoint (25 slides, with animation)
pdf (32 slides, printable version)

Parsing and the Principles-and-
Parameters Framework
 

 newpappi: The tcl/tk SWI-Prolog version of PAPPI.
  • Documentation: intro etc. here
    (Last updated April 2014.)
    The non-GUI part of PAPPI Reference Manual remains basically the same.
  • Preliminary release: Newpappi-0.4a.zip (May 18th 2014)
    (as a double-clickable application for Mac OS X. Drag Newpappi.app to the Applications folder.)
    linux-0.4a.zip (May 18th 2014) (Unzip. Run shell script run.)
    Notes: No need to install swiprolog. Assumes a 64 bit kernel. For 32 bit systems, rename pappi32 to pappi first.
    Linux dist. bug: Japanese treeprinting doesn't work...
    uname -m returns x86_64 (64 bits), i686 (32 bits).)

    Warning: it is not anywhere as functional as (old) PAPPI yet. Functionality is being restored gradually. For example, other theory variants and languages are not supplied in this release.

  • Installation: drag it into the Applications folder.
    (If it's not automatically uncompressed when downloaded, double-click on the .zip file to expand it first. No need to install SWI Prolog. Tcl/tk should be present already.)

PAPPI: A Multilingual Principles-and-Parameters Parser

  • Ported to MacOS X and Linux. (Obsolete)
    (Older NEC Research Institute version for Sun Solaris available on request.)
  • Arabic PAPPI pages online
  • PAPPI reference manual online

Minimalist
Program
Parsing

 The Minimalist Machine: a project to assemble a large-scale yet coherent theory in the Minimalist Program.

Project webpage
(Updated: September 2015)

New!
Computational implementation of Chomsky's Problems of Projection (2013):
Example derivation
Video: pop.mov
(Quicktime, may not work on VLC.)
(Updated: May 1st 2014)

For old papers etc., go to the webpage here

Three papers on WordNet:

See also wnconnect software listed below.

Software

Notes on developing for Sicstus Prolog and Windows XP: here

wnconnect:
Find connections between two words using WordNet semantic relations.
Now available for Windows and Linux as well as MacOS X! 		newpappi: The tcl/tk SWI-Prolog version of PAPPI

PAPPI:
A Multilingual Principles-and-Parameters Parser
Now available for Linux and MacOS X!

TreeBank Viewer:
A tree viewer for treebanks, e.g. the Penn Treebank (PTB)
Platforms: MacOS X (Intel/PPC), Windows XP and Linux (Debian-based and RedHat-based)

New! CCG version: here

TreeBank Search:
A logic-based treebank search and display program
Platforms: MacOS X (Intel) initial release

Minimalist Program Parser.
See here

Sudoku Sandiway

Solving Sudoku puzzles through deductive logic, without guessing.
Explains the route to the solution one step at a time in an easy-to-understand format.
Using just a few simple heuristics, it can solve surprisingly difficult puzzles.

  • An application of logic programming.
    [Written using a combination of Sicstus Prolog, tcl/tk and C.]
  • Available for MacOS X. (Other platforms to come.)
  • Application download sudoku.zip (1.2MB)
    Note: requires Tcl/Tk Aqua, a free download via Apple Computer.
    Put Sudoku application in your Applications folder.
  • Documentation: How to run. Heuristics. etc.
  • Puzzle examples
  • LATEST: The "Unsolvable 11" from SudokuList. Solutions.

Sony VGN-U71P

Links:

To my u.arizona webpage

To my NEC Laboratories research webpage
(Sorry, this has been taken down.)