Cognitive Science & Language Processing

COGNITIVE SCIENCE and LANGUAGE PROCESSING is a multidisciplinary program for students with an interest in computational approaches to intelligence. Cognitive science is the study of mind and intelligence, embracing philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and linguistics. The central hypothesis of cognitive science assumes that the mind has mental representations analogous to computer data structures, and computational procedures similar to computer algorithms. Cognitive theorists have proposed that the mind contains such mental representations as logical propositions, rules, concepts, images, and analogies, and that it uses mental procedures such as deduction, search, matching, rotating, and retrieval.

RESEARCH THEMES

Machine Learning

Language Processing

Sentiment Analysis

Knowledge Engineering

Cyber Infrastructure

Computational Biology

Network Analysis

Cognitive Science and Language Processing is a multidisciplinary program for students with an interest in computational approaches to intelligence. Cognitive science is the study of mind and intelligence, embracing philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and linguistics.

The central hypothesis of cognitive science assumes that the mind has mental representations analogous to computer data structures, and computational procedures similar to computer algorithms. Cognitive theorists have proposed that the mind contains such mental representations as logical propositions, rules, concepts, images, and analogies, and that it uses mental procedures such as deduction, search, matching, rotating, and retrieval.

Our program also includes the inverse direction, using human cognition to improve computer processing within speech and language understanding systems.

People

Area LeadsFaculty AffiliatesPhD Students

NameEmailDepartment John Hummel jehummel@illinois.edu Psychology

NameEmailDepartment Chang-Dae Ham cdham317@illinois.edu Advertising Ewa Maslowska ehm@illinois.edu Advertising Leona Yi-Fan Su lyfsu@illinois.edu Advertising Ben Grosser grosser@illinois.edu Art & Design Lisa Guntzviller guntzvi1@illinois.edu Communication Kevin Chang kcchang@illinois.edu Computer Science David Forsyth daf@illinois.edu Computer Science Julia Hockenmaier juliahmr@illinois.edu Computer Science Alex Kirlik kirlik@illinois.edu Computer Science Chengxiang Zhai czhai@illinois.edu Computer Science Elhan Ersoz ese@illinois.edu Crop Sciences Emma Mercier mercier@illinois.edu Curriculum & Instruction Mark Hasegawa-Johnson jhasegaw@illinois.edu ECE Dan Morrow dgm@illinois.edu Educational Psychology Yi-Cheng Wang ycw@illinois.edu Food Science & Human Nutrition Brandon Batzloff batzloff@illinois.edu iSchool Catherine Blake clblake@illinois.edu iSchool Jessie Chin chin5@illinois.edu iSchool Jing Rui He jingrui@illinois.edu iSchool Halil Kilicoglu halil@illinois.edu iSchool Jodi Schneider jodi@illinois.edu iSchool JooYoung Seo jseo1005@illinois.edu iSchool Dong Wang dwang24@illinois.edu iSchool Jonathan MacDonald jonmacd@illinois.edu Linguistics Cynthia Fisher clfishe@illinois.edu Psychology John Hummel jehummel@illinois.edu Psychology Daniel Simons dsimons@illinois.edu Psychology Chadly Stern chadly@illinois.edu Psychology

NameEmailArea Carter Boyce cboyce@illinois.edu Cognitive Science and Language Processing
Ziyang Gong ziyangg2@illinois.edu Cognitive Science and Language Processing
Design, Technology and Society
Mohit Gupta mohitg2@illinois.edu Cognitive Science and Language Processing
Jamshed Kaikaus kaikaus2@illinois.edu Cognitive Science and Language Processing
Data Analytics and Information Visualization
Haoyang Liu hl57@illinois.edu Cognitive Science and Language Processing
Yiren Liu yirenl2@illinois.edu Cognitive Science and Language Processing
Janina Sarol mjsarol@illinois.edu Cognitive Science and Language Processing
Data Analytics and Information Visualization
Dexter Williams dexterw2@illinois.edu Cognitive Science and Language Processing
Zihan Yan zihan25@illinois.edu Cognitive Science and Language Processing
Zhenrui Yue zhenrui3@illinois.edu Cognitive Science and Language Processing

Courses

Application CoursesFoundation Courses

NumberTitleNotes ECE 537 Speech Processing Fundamentals ECE 598 AL The Speech Chain ECE 598 NA Pattern Recognition IS 590 Self Organizing Information Systems LING 501 Syntax I LING 502 Phonology I LING 506 Topics in Computational Linguistics LING 507 Formal Semantics I LING 520 Acoustic Phonetics LING 591 Natural Language Semantics

NumberTitleNotes CS 546 Machine Learning in NLP ECE 537 Speech Processing Fundamentals ECE 594 Mathematical Models of Language IS 507 (formerly taught as IS 542) Data, Stat and Info IS 556 Implementation of Information Storage and Retrieval IS 590 IRR Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing IS 590 RC Research Methods for Text Corpora PSYC 514 Cognitive Science PSYC 593 CM Connectionist Models in Psychology PSYC 593 ML Models of Language Production and Speech Errors