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Nicholas A. Lester

Title: Adjunct Faculty

Department: Linguistics

College: College of Information

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

  • PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2018
    Major: Linguistics
    Dissertation: The Syntactic Bits of Nouns: How Prior Syntactic Distributions Affect Comprehension, Production, and Acquistion

Current Scheduled Teaching

LING 5412.001Advanced Models of LanguageSpring 2025
LING 2060.001Language and ComputersSpring 2025
LING 5405.001Programming for LinguisticsFall 2024
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Previous Scheduled Teaching

LING 2060.001Language and ComputersSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
LING 5412.001NLP in LinguisticsSpring 2024 SPOT
LING 4135.001Python Programming for TextFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
LING 5405.001Python Programming for TextFall 2023 SPOT
CSCE 6290.001Advanced Topics in Human/Machine IntelligenceSpring 2023 SPOT
LING 5415.001Computational Linguistics IISpring 2023 SPOT
LING 4950.002Senior Capstone Field ExperienceSpring 2023 SPOT
LING 5900.003Special ProblemsSpring 2023
LING 5412.001NLP in LinguisticsFall 2022 SPOT
LING 4135.001Python Programming for TextFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
LING 5405.001Python Programming for TextFall 2022 SPOT
CSCE 6290.001Advanced Topics in Human/Machine IntelligenceSpring 2022 SPOT
LING 4140.001Computational LinguisticsSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
LING 5410.001Computational Linguistics 1Spring 2022 SPOT
LING 5415.001Computational Linguistics IISpring 2022 SPOT
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.
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Overall
Summative Rating		 Challenge and
Engagement Index		 Response Rate

out of 5
out of 7		 %
of
students responded
  • Overall Summative Rating (median):
    This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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