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

King's College London Emeritus Professor of Computational Linguistics

Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability, University of Gothenburg Director

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 Barbara Partee FBA

Professor Jane Stuart-Smith FBA

Phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics, sociophonetics; language variation and change, speech and social meaning, media influence on language change; English, especially Scottish English/Scots and British Asian

Jane Stuart-Smith FBA (credit (credit Elizabeth Stuart-Smith))

Professor Almut Hintze FBA

The languages, religions and history of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia with special attention to Zoroastrianism; Ancient and Middle Iranian philology and linguistics

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