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 Eleanor Dickey FBA

Greek and Latin languages and literature; ancient scholarship; ancient bilingualism and second-language learning; politeness and forms of address in Latin and Greek; sociolinguistics of ancient languages

Professor Mary Dalrymple FBA

Descriptive and theoretical syntax and semantics; language documentation; Austronesian and Papuan languages; grammatical analysis within the theory of Lexical Functional Grammar

Professor Rajend Mesthrie FBA

Rajend Mesthrie FBA has published extensively on the socio-historical linguistics of Indian languages, African languages and English and Afrikaans in South Africa. At the same time his work on English as a global language and the sociolinguistics of Language Contact and Variation is widely recognised internationally.

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