The semantics lab, headed by Kyle Rawlins, is a forum for research in semantics and related fields.
The semantics lab’s physical space in Krieger 105 is a resource for doing both computational and experimental work in semantics. The lab space has a testing room, a meeting room, and a common area with computers. Keys are available for affiliated graduate students as well as undergraduate RAs; contact Kyle for more information.
The semantics lab has regular weekly meetings during the semester, and somewhat less regularly at other times. These lab meetings provide a space for participants to discuss their research as well as others’, in semantics, pragmatics, syntax, and related fields. We often have co-run seminars with the Van Durme lab in CS, or the Textual Choreography group. In F2015, we are jointly running a seminar on computational lexical semantics, organizers are: Kyle Rawlins, Ben Van Durme, Aaron Steven White.
If you’re interested in hearing about semantics lab-related events, you can join the semlab mailing list. This is primarily an announcement list, not a discussion list.
Current members & affiliates
- Emory Davis (Ph.D student)
- Matthias Lalisse (Ph.D student)
- Dee Ann Reisinger (Ph.D student)
- Aaron Steven White (Science of Learning Postdoctoral Fellow, co-mentored with Ben Van Durme)
Alums:
- Kristen Johannes, PhD 2015 (co-advised with Barbara Landau, Colin Wilson). Currently STEM Research Associate
WestEd - Charley Beller, PhD 2013. Currently an Natural Language Processing Analysit, Watson Transformations, IBM.
- Lilia Rissman, PhD 2013. Currently Postdoctoral, Scholar Dept of Psychology, University of Chicago.
- Erin Zaroukian, PhD 2013. Currently postdoctoral fellow, US Army Research Laboratory.
- Monica Lopez-Gonzalez, PhD 2010. Currently postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Otolaryngology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, working with Charles Limb.
- Julian Grove, BA 2010 (undergrad RA). Currently Ph.D student in the Linguistics Department, U Chicago.
Affiliates:
- Ben Van Durme (Computer Science faculty / HLTCOE)
- Geraldine Legendre (CogSci faculty)
- Justin Bledin (JHU Philosophy)
Affiliated labs:
- Language Acquisition lab (Geraldine Legendre head)
- Language and Cognition lab (Barbara Landau head)
- CogNeuro lab (Brenda Rapp head)
- IGERT lab