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Guest Speaker: Professor Erhard Hinrichs

October 4, 2024

Wordnets such as the Princeton WordNet for English and GermaNet for German provide useful digital resources for Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, and beyond.  The basic building blocks of a wordnet are word senses which are clustered by synonymy and … Read more

Friday Colloquium: Prof. Kristen Syrett, Rutgers

August 5, 2024

Categorizing and quantifying parts of objects: A window into how children and adults interpret count nouns and their reference   Count nouns such as ‘cup’ and ‘ball’ are among the first words that children correctly interpret and produce. One might, … Read more

Friday Colloquium: Prof. Paul Portner

October 25, 2023

Social Presuppositions Paul Portner, Georgetown University The presuppositions of a conversation are the propositions that the participants mutually (if tacitly) agree to treat as true for purposes of the conversation (Stalnaker, 1974).  Linguists usually think of presuppositions as being motivated by the … Read more

Friday Colloquium: Prof. Paul Portner Talk Prep

October 25, 2023

Prep for Prof. Portner’s Nov 3 Talk   Social Presuppositions Paul Portner, Georgetown University The presuppositions of a conversation are the propositions that the participants mutually (if tacitly) agree to treat as true for purposes of the conversation (Stalnaker, 1974).  Linguists usually … Read more

Computational Linguistics Brown Bag: Elias Stengel-Eskin

October 15, 2023

We will hear from Elias Stengel-Eskin who is a new postdoc in the CS department (working with Mohit Bansal), focusing on how AI models represent meaning. Abstract: The mapping between language and meaning is not always clear. This is especially true of … Read more