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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