On July 26th, Alex Nazarov successfully defended his dissertation “Extending Hidden Structure Learning: Features, Opacity, and Exceptions”. The committee consisted of Gaja Jarosz (co-chair), John McCarthy, Joe Pater (co-chair), David Smith (Computer Science) and Kristine Yu. He’s taking up a lectureship at Harvard this academic year. Congratulations Alex!
Category Archives: Computational linguistics
Deniz Özy?ld?z awarded EACL grant to attend ESSLLI 2016 at Bolzano
Deniz Özy?ld?z has been awarded a grant from the European Association of Computational Linguistics to attend the 28th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) at Bolzano (Italy). Deniz will also present a paper on knowledge reports without truth at the ESSLLI Student Session. Earlier this summer, Deniz attended the Göttingen Spirit Summer School on Complex Clauses (Göttingen, Germany) and the African Linguistics School in Abidjan (Ivory Coast).
Craige Roberts, Kyle Rawlins & Daniel Altshuler at NASSLLI
Craige Roberts (Ohio State University, 1986 UMass PhD), Kyle Rawlins (Johns Hopkins, 2003 UMass BA in Linguistics & BS in Computer Science), and Daniel Altshuler (Hampshire College, brand new UMass Adjunct Professor) were all active at the North American Summer School in Language, Logic, and Information (NASSLLI 2016) at Rutgers University this past July. Craige taught a class on Questions under Discussion with long-time collaborators David Beaver, Mandy Simons and Judith Tonhauser. Their course materials are here. Kyle taught a class on Modeling Questions and Responses in Discourse. Kyle’s course materials are here. Both Craige and Kyle also participated in a workshop on Anaphora & Coherence that Daniel had co-organized.