James Cooper Roberts has been awarded a summer UROP fellowship, to work on the project of automatically generating referring expressions for objects in complex scenes. He will be developing an annotated corpus. Welcome!
Ying Gong and Elizabeth Coppock presented a talk entitled “Mandarin has degree abstraction after all” at the LSA in January 2021. If you missed it, don’t worry — you can watch it here! http://eecoppock.info/LSA-Ying+Liz.mp4 And here are the slides: http://eecoppock.info/Ying+Coppock-LSA2021Slides-Mandarin_Degree_Abstraction.pdf
We gave a talk at the Probability and Meaning conference, hosted by the University of Gothenburg in October 2020. In this talk, we undertake a side-by-side comparison between image captioning and reference game human datasets and show that they differ systematically with respect to informativity. The related paper can be found here: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.pam-1.14.pdf It […]
An article entitled “Universals in Superlative Semantics” by Elizabeth Coppock, Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten, and Golsa Nouri-Hosseini has been published in Language, the official journal of the Linguistic Society of America! Click here to read it. Abstract: This article reports on the results of a broad crosslinguistic study on the semantics of quantity words such as many […]
On Wednesday, September 23rd, Ying Gong presented her work in progress on degree abstraction in Mandarin at LFRG (LF Reading Group) at MIT. Abstract: According to Beck et al. (2004), not all languages with degree predicates have degree abstraction. A language with a negative setting of their degree abstraction parameter (DAP) is one in which […]
Prof. Elizabeth Coppock was honored to win a UROP Outstanding Mentor Award for Summer 2020!
Danielle Dionne and Elizabeth Coppock will be giving a poster called “Tattoos as a window onto cross-linguistic differences in scalar implicature” at the first annual Experiments in Linguistic Meaning conference, to be hosted virtually by the University of Pennsylvania, September 16-18: https://www.elm-conference.net/2020-conference/program/poster-sessions/
Huge congratulations to Ph.D. student Danielle Dionne, who won ‘Best Lightning Talk’ at the Web Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (hosted by Brandeis this summer, in lieu of NASSLLI). She presented her research on cross-linguistic variation in pragmatics, focussing on what happens when one language lacks a simple, one-word equivalent for a single […]
We are very lucky to have BU Ph.D. student Ying Gong working with us this summer. She will be concentrating on degree abstraction especially in Mandarin.
We are thrilled to be welcoming Tomiris Kaumenova to our group for the summer. She will be investigating degree abstraction in Mooré and Ende. Congratulations to Tomiris and to us!