<p>You can PM Sungchul, too. He is a linguistics concentrator.</p>
<p>No problem. I’ll try to help!</p>
<p>Again, thank you for your help! I hope to visit Brown soon…the more I hear about it, the more I want to go!</p>
<p>@thefunnything</p>
<p>Which Computational Linguist is leaving? I know that there are two, one in the CS department and one in the Cog Sci department, and I was looking forward to taking that course next year.</p>
<p>@Uroogla</p>
<p>Johnson is leaving. Charniak is sticking around; he’ll be teaching Intro to Computational Linguistics this spring (and possibly next year, if the new person doesn’t do it instead).</p>
<p>Hi, I would like to know if you could give more information about computational linguistics research in Brown. I am thinking of applying for my PhD research, but for what I see in the website, it’s rather neurolinguistics or psycholinguistics than computational linguistics, corpus linguistics or natural language processing.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>Professor Charniak does Computational Linguistics in the Computer Science department (which is where all comp. linguistics research happens right now, since Johnson has left). Charniak focuses on parsing, if I remember correctly, though he has a unique approach to pronoun resolution (if you google his name and anaphora, you should be able to find his paper on the topic). A lot of undergrads do research with him, but I don’t have much of a sense how many grad students do. I honestly didn’t click with Charniak’s teaching style (and admittedly I generally believe that there should be a way to make models better by using actual linguistics, so I didn’t really enjoy the undergrad course very much), but most students in the class found him to be a good professor.</p>
<p>I think this thread just made be decide to attend Brown instead of the other schools I’ve been accepted to (transfer).</p>