Dr. Taraka R. Kasicheyanula
University of North Texas
Linguistics
(940) 565-4552
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Education

PhD, University of Gothenburg, 2015.
Major: Natural Language Processing
Degree Specialization: Computational Historical Linguistics
Dissertation Title: Studies in computational historical linguistics

Professional Memberships

Reviewer, Association for Computational Linguistics. (August 1, 2019 – Present).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas
CSCE 6290, Advanced Topics in Human/Machine Intelligence, 2 courses.
LING 2040, Endangered Languages, 1 course.
LING 4135, Python Programming for Text, 1 course.
LING 4140, Computational Linguistics, 1 course.
LING 5020, Studies in Historical Linguistics, 1 course.
LING 5405, Python Programming for Text, 1 course.
LING 5410, Computational Linguistics 1, 4 courses.
LING 5412, NLP in Linguistics, 2 courses.
LING 5415, Computational Linguistics II, 2 courses.
LING 6040, Introduction to Computational Linguistics, 1 course.

Teaching at Other Institutions

University of Tuebingen, Germany, Statistical Phylogenetics, Spring 2016.

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Conference Proceeding
Kasicheyanula, T. R., Beinborn, L., Eger, S. (2020). Probing Multilingual BERT for Genetic and Typological Signals. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 1214--1228. Barcelona, Spain (Online): International Committee on Computational Linguistics. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.coling-main.105
Cathcart, C., Kasicheyanula, T. R. (2020). Disentangling dialects: a neural approach to Indo-Aryan historical phonology and subgrouping. Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning. 620--630. Online: Association for Computational Linguistics. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.conll-1.50
Aiken, B., Kelly, J., Palmer, A. M., Polat, S. O., Kasicheyanula, T. R., Nielsen, R. D. (2019). Sigmorphon 2019 Task 2 system description paper: Morphological analysis in context for many languages, with supervision from only a few. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-4211.pdf
Kasicheyanula, T., List, J. (2019). An Automated Framework for Fast Cognate Detection and Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference in Computational Historical Linguistics. 11. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1627.pdf
Journal Article
Kasicheyanula, T. R., Wichmann, S. (2020). A test of Generalized Bayesian dating: A new linguistic dating method. PLOS One. 15(8), 1-18. Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236522

Presentations Given

Oral Presentation

Smith, A. (Author & Presenter), Kasicheyanula, T. (Author & Presenter), 11th annual DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference, Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Bornean languages, UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (20192019).

Poster

Kasicheyanula, T. (Author & Presenter), 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Probing Multilingual BERT for Genetic and Typological Signals, International Committee on Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain. (20202020).

Kasicheyanula, T. (Author & Presenter), (Formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages 10 Use Enter or Space to activate links. Use appropriate arrow key to open or close submenus., A Bayesian investigation of the origin hypotheses of the Dravidian family, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America. (20202020).

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research
Palmer, A. M., Kasicheyanula, T. R., "nVidia Accelerated Data Science GPU Grant," Sponsored by nVidia, International, $12000 Funded. (20192019).

Service

University Service

Committee Member, Scholarship Committee. (September 1, 2019 – Present).

Committee Member, Admissions. (September 1, 2020December 31, 2021).

Committee Chair, Website. (May 1, 2020December 31, 2020).