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Professor Shalom Lappin FBA

Computational learning theory and machine learning applied to grammar induction and natural language processing, computational and formal semantics, and computational modeling of cognitive processes
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2010
Subjects
Linguistics
Sections
Linguistics and Philology
Website
https://sites.google.com/view/shalomlappin/home

Summary

My area of research is computational linguistics. My current work focuses on the application of probabilistic methods and machine learning to problems in syntax, semantics, and language acquisition.

Current post

Queen Mary, University of London Professor of Natural Language Processing in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science

King’s College London Emeritus Professor of Computational Linguistics, Informatics

Publications

Probabilistic Type Theory and Natural Language Semantics

Published in 2015 by Linusitic Issues in Language Technology

Unsupervised Prediction of Acceptability Judgements

Published in 2015 by Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics

Curry Typing, Polymorphism, and Fine-Grained Intensionality In The Handbook of Contemorary Semantic Theory

Published in 2015 by Wiley-Blackwell

Second Edition

The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing

Published in 2010 by Wiley-Blackwell

Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus

Published in 2010 by Wiley-Blackwell

The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory

Published in 2015 by Wiley-Blackwell

Second Edition

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Bill Hardcastle FBA

Theoretical and clinical phonetics and phonology, particularly experimental studies of speech production processes in typical and disordered speech

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Professor Ianthi Tsimpli FBA

First and second language acquisition, multilingualism, language impairment, language attrition and language development in exceptional circumstances; the interface between language and cognition and the role of the language of education in linguistic and cognitive development

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Professor Terttu Nevalainen FBA

The history of the English language, particularly of the Early Modern English period; historical sociolinguistics; language variation and change; corpus linguistics; design and compilation of digital text corpora

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