Nick Pendar is Assistant Professor with the Applied Linguistics and Technology Program and the interdisciplinary graduate program in Human Computer Interaction. His specialty is computational linguistics and natural language processing. He teaches courses in theoretical and computational linguistics. Nick's research interests include the use of machine learning techniques in natural language processing, constraint-based theories of natural language, intelligent tutoring systems, as well as automatic error diagnosis and analysis. He has published in The International Journal of Corpus Linguistics and Oceanic Linguistics. He has also presented papers in such conferences as The International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, The American Association of Applied Linguistics, and The Canadian Linguistic Association. Nick has served as a referee for Routledge Publishing as well as the journals Computational Linguistics, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, and The Iranian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has also been on the program committees of several conferences and workshops including The Workshop on the Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages.

Contact Information

• office: 355 Ross
• office phone: (515) 294-3368
• Email: pendar (AT iastate . edu)
• fax: (515) 294-2282
• home page: http://pendar.public.iastate.edu

Affiliations

• Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) (member)
• Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA) (member)
• Linguistics Society of America (LSA) (member)