Teaching

Courses taught at SFU

Syllabi available for some instances of each course (not always the most recent)

• LING 100 — Communication and Language

  •    Fall 2002, Fall 2009, Spring 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022

• LING 200 — Introduction to the Description of English Grammar

  •    Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2009, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2019

• LING 220 — Introduction to Linguistics

  •    Fall 2012

• LING 222 — Introduction to Syntax

  •    Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2006, Spring 2011, Fall 2016

• LING 250/SDA 250 — Computational Text Analysis

  •    Spring 2021, Spring 2022

• LING 280 — Topics in Linguistics: The Language of Social Media

  •    Fall 2017

• LING 301 W — Linguistic Argumentation (Writing-intensive)

  •    Fall 2008, Spring 2013, Spring 2015

• LING 450 — Computational Linguistics
  

  •    Fall 2022

• LING 480/812 — Approaches to Discourse

  •    Spring 2002

• LING 481/812 — Discourse Analysis

  •    Fall 2005, Fall 2008

• LING 481/812 — Corpus Linguistics

  •    Fall 2013

• LING 482 W — Discourse Analysis (Writing-intensive)

  •    Fall 2012, Spring 2018

• LING 481/811 W — Functional Linguistics (Writing-intensive)

  •    Fall 2003

• LING 803 — Discourse and Pragmatics

  •    Fall 2014, Fall 2022

• LING 807 — Computational Linguistics

  •    Spring 2011, Spring 2017, Fall 2019, Fall 2022

• COGS 300 — Discourse and Dialogue Processing

  •    Spring 2005

Courses and seminars at other institutions

• Tutorial — International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), New York
  

  •    Tutorial: Affect detection from spoken and written text
  •    Co-taught with Alexandra Balahur and Björn Schuller
  •    July 2016

• LOT Winter School — University of Leiden, The Netherlands

  •    Course: Computational analysis of discourse
  •    Master class: Coherence relations
  •    January 2013

• Erasmus Mundus International Masters in Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technology
  University of Wolverhampton, UK

  •    Masters tutorials on: Dialogue Agents and Sentiment Analysis
  •    April 2011

• Hauptseminar — Discourse and Dialogue Processing — University of Potsdam, Germany

  •    Summer 2004

• SPAN 100 — Beginners' Spanish — Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, Canada

  •    Fall 1999 — Spring 2000

• LING 204 — Modern English Syntax — Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta, Canada

  •    Spring 1999

• Departamento de Filología Inglesa — Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

  •    English Morphosyntax
  •    Methods of Teaching English as a Second Language
  •    Fundamental Concepts of English Language Teaching
  •    Fall 1997 — Spring 1998