Aida Nematzadeh Chekhoudar
M.Sc. StudentComputational Linguistics Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Mailing Address
Sandford Fleming Building10 King's College Road, Room 3302
Toronto, ON M5S 3G4
Office
Sandford Fleming Building, Room 3203I am a second year Master's student in the Computational Linguistics group, in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. My supervisor is Suzanne Stevenson.
I got my Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology. My Bachelor's project was "Semantic Tagging of Persian Text".
Research
Acquiring Multiword Expressions:
Multiword expressions are very frequent in many languages and
their meanings range from entirely literal to non-literal. We
worked on how children acquire multiword expressions and in
particular what cues they use to identify non-literal
expressions. We devised simple statistical measures based on
the properties of non-literal multiword expressions and
evaluated them on CHILDES. We provided evidence that these
measures are useful in separating non-literal expressions
from literal ones.
This is a joint work with Afsaneh
Fazly and Suzanne Stevenson.
I am also interested in:
- Child Language Acquisition, Computational Models of Word Learning
- Cognitive Models of Language Acquisition
Publications
- Fazly, Afsaneh; Nematzadeh, Aida, and Stevenson, Suzanne. Acquiring multiword verbs: The role of statistical evidence, in Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Recent TAships
- CSC180(Introduction to Programming): Fall 2009, Fall 2008.
- CSC104(The Why and How of Computing): Winter 2009.
Studying across language borders
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