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

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

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 Simon Kirby FBA

The origins and evolution of language; the interactions between individual cognition, cultural transmission and biological evolution in human populations; art / science collaboration

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Professor Adam Ledgeway FBA

The comparative history and morphosyntax of the Romance languages; Italian and Romance dialectology; Latin; Italo-Greek; syntactic theory, linguistic change and language contact

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