Professor Robin Cooper

Linguistics

Elected 1993

Year elected: 1993
Subjects: Linguistics
Website: http://www.ling.gu.se/~cooper/

Robin Cooper has an undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has taught at the following universities: Universität Freiburg, University of Texas at Austin, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Stanford University, Lund University, Edinburgh University and University of Gothenburg where he was previously Professor of Computational Linguistics and is now Senior Professor. He has held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg and a member of Academia Europaea. He holds an honorary doctorate from Uppsala. His main research interests are semantics (both theoretical and computational), dialogue semantics and computational dialogue systems. Currently he is working on a type theoretical approach to language.

Current post

Professor of Computational Linguistics, University of Gothenburg

Past appointments

Göteborg University, Sweden Professor of Computational Linguistics

Jan 1995 -

University of Edinburgh Lecturer, Reader in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence

Jan 1986 - Jan 1996

University of Wisconsin, Madison Assistant, Associate Professor of Linguistics

Jan 1977 - Jan 1987

Publications

Type Theory with Records for Natural Language Semantics

by Robin Cooper, Jonathan Ginzburg - Published in 2015 by Wiley

The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory (2nd edition)

Probabilistic Type Theory and Natural Language Semantics

by Robin Cooper, Simon Dobnik, Shalom Lappin, Staffan Larsson - Published in 2015 by CSLI Publications

Linguistic Issues in Language Technology – LiLT

Language in Flux: Dialogue Coordination, Language Variation, Change and Evolution (Communication, Mind and Language)

by Ed. Robin Cooper and Ruth Kempson - Published in 2008 by College Publications

The Role of Situations in Generalized Quantifiers

by Robin Cooper - Published in 1995

Quantification and Syntactic Theory

by Robin Cooper - Published in 1983 by Springer

Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language

by Jon Barwise and Robin Cooper - Published in 1981 by Springer

Linguistics and Philosophy, Vol. 4, No. 2

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