Christian F. Hempelmann, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics
Phone: (903) 886-5291
Email: c.hempelmann@tamuc.edu
Office: Hall of Languages 226
Education
- Ph.D. in Linguistics, August 2003
Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics at Purdue University.- Dissertation: "Paronomasic Puns: Target Recoverability towards Automatic Generation"
- Dissertation committee: Victor Raskin (chair), Salvatore Attardo, Shaun Hughes, Mary Niepokuj, Sergei Nirenburg
- Primary area: computational linguistics (ontological semantics, NLP for information security); secondary areas: linguistic humor studies, theoretical linguistics, phonology and historical linguistics.
- M.A. in English, June 2000
Specialization in TESOL, Youngstown State University, supervised by Salvatore Attardo - M.A. in English Linguistics, secondary area Religious Studies, June 1998
[Magister Artium der Englischen Sprachwissenschaft, Zweitfach Religionswissenschaft; includes and supercedes the bachelor degree], Leibniz-Universität Hannover, additional areas: Mathematics, German literature, supervised by Rainer Schulze and Peter Antes - Abitur, 1991
[a degree above high school, with 2 years of specialization] Major in mathematics, Ancient Greek, and German literature, Kaiser-Wilhelms-Gymnasium, Hannover, Germany
Teaching Experience
- Computational Linguistics
Fall 2013, graduate linguistics and computer science course - Old English
Texas A&M-Commerce; Summer 2013, graduate language course - Graduate Introduction to Semantics
Texas A&M-Commerce; Spring 2013, graduate linguistics course - Structure of the English Language
Texas A&M-Commerce; Spring 2013, graduate linguistics course - Developing a Course in Statistics for Linguists
Texas A&M-Commerce; Spring 2013, graduate individual studies linguistics course - General Linguistics
Texas A&M-Commerce; Fall 2012, Fall 2013, graduate linguistics course - Psycholinguistics
Texas A&M-Commerce; Fall 2012, graduate linguistics course - Modern Grammar
Texas A&M-Commerce; Fall 2012, undergraduate linguistics course - Introduction to Linguistics, Ontological Semantics, Linguistic Humor Theory
Purdue University; Fall 2008 to Fall 2011, graduate linguistics courses, supplementary teaching for Victor Raskin - Computational Linguistics
Georgia Southern, Spring 2006; undergraduate linguistics course - Semantics
Georgia Southern, Spring 2006; undergraduate linguistics course - Composition I
Georgia Southern, Fall 2005; YSU, Fall 1998 to Spring 1999; Purdue, Fall 2000 - Introduction to Natural Language Processing
Fall 2004, University of Memphis; graduate course, supplementary teaching for Vasile Rus - Introduction to Linguistics
YSU, Spring 1999 to Fall 2000; undergraduate linguistics course - Elements of Linguistics
Purdue, Fall 2002; introductory undergraduate linguistics course - Composition II
Georgia Southern, Spring 2006; Purdue, Spring 2001 - Introduction to Linguistics
Purdue, Fall 2001, Summer 2003; graduate course, supplementary teaching for Victor Raskin - Ontological Semantics
Purdue, Fall 2001; graduate course, supplementary teaching for Victor Raskin.