Shalom Lappin

Publications



BOOKS:

 

Alexander Clark and Shalom Lappin (2011), Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the  Stimulus, Wiley-Blackwell,

    Oxford.

Chris Fox and Shalom Lappin (2005), Foundations of Intensional Semantics, Blackwell, Oxford.

David Johnson and Shalom Lappin (1999), Local Constraints vs Economy,  CSLI Monographs in Linguistic

    Series, CSLI, Stanford, CA.

Shalom Lappin (1981), Sorts, Ontology,  and Metaphor: The Semantics of Sortal Structure, de Gruyter, Berlin.

Asa Kasher and Shalom Lappin (1977), Philosophical Linguistics: An Introduction, Scriptor Verlag, Kronberg.

 

EDITED BOOKS:

 

Alexander Clark, Chris Fox, and Shalom Lappin (eds.) (2010), The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and

    Natural Language Processing, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.

Shalom Lappin and Elabbas Benmamoun (eds.) (1999), Fragments: Studies in Ellipsis and Gapping, Oxford

    University Press, New York.

Shalom Lappin (ed.) (1996), The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory, Blackwell, Oxford.

Asa Kasher and Shalom Lappin (eds) (1985), New Trends in Philosophy II, (in Hebrew), Yachdav, Tel Aviv.

Asa Kasher and Shalom Lappin (eds) (1982), New Trends in Philosophy I, (in Hebrew), Yachdav, Tel Aviv.

 

EDITED SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES:

 

Maribel Fernandez, Chris Fox, and Shalom Lappin (2008), special issue of Journal of Logic and

     Computation on lambda calculus, type theory, and natural language II, Vol 18, No. 2.

Maribel Fernandez, Chris Fox, and Shalom Lappin (2005), special issue of Journal of Logic and

    Computation on lambda calculus, type theory, and natural language I, Vol 15, No. 2.   

Ruslan Mitkov, Bran Bugraev, and Shalom Lappin (2001), special issue of Computational

    Linguistics on anaphora resolution, vol 27, No. 4.

Shalom Lappin (ed.) (1988), Special issue of Linguistics, with an introduction on the syntax and

    semantics of NP's, Vol. 26, No. 6.

    

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS:

 

Chris Fox and Shalom Lappin (2010), “Expressiveness and Complexity in Underspecified

    Semantics”, Linguistic Analysis 36.

Raquel Fernandez, Jonathan Ginzburg, and Shalom Lappin (2007), “Classifying Non-

    Sentential Utterances in Dialogue: A Machine Learning Approach”, Computational

    Linguistics 33, No. 3, pp. 397-427.

Shalom Lappin and Stuart Shieber (2007), “Machine Learning Theory and Practice as a

    Source of Insight into Universal Grammar”, Journal of Linguistics 43, pp. 393-427. 

Chris Fox and Shalom Lappin (2005), “Underspecified Intepretation in a Curry-Typed

    Representation Language”, Journal of Logic and Computation, pp.131-143.

Chris Fox and Shalom Lappin (2004), “An Expressive First-Order Logic with Flexible

    Typing for Natural Language Semantics”, Logic Journal of the International Group for

    Pure and Applied Logic 12, 2004, pp. 135-168.

Shalom Lappin, Robert Levine and David Johnson (2001), “The Revolution Maximally

    Confused”, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 19, pp. 901-919.

Shalom Lappin (2000), “An Intensional Parametric Semantics for Vague Quantifiers”,

    Linguistics and Philosophy 23, pp. 599-620.

Shalom Lappin, Robert Levine and David Johnson (2000), “The Revolution Confused: A

    Response to Our Critics”, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 18, pp. 873-890

Shalom Lappin, Robert Levine and David Johnson (2000), “The Structure of Unscientific

    Revolutions”, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 18, pp. 665-771.

David Johnson and Shalom Lappin (1997), "A Critique of the Minimalist Program", Linguistics

    and Philosophy 20, pp. 273-333.

Shalom Lappin (1996), "Generalized Quantifiers, Exception Phrases, and Logicality ", The

    Journal of Semantics 13, pp. 197-220.

Ido Dagan, John Justeson, Shalom Lappin, Herbert Leass, and Amnon Ribak (1995),  "Syntax

    and Lexical Statistics in Anaphora Resolution", Applied Artificial Intelligence 9, pp. 633-644.

Shalom Lappin and Herbert Leass (1994), "A Syntactically Based Algorithm for Pronominal

    Anaphora Resolution, Computational Linguistics 20, pp. 535-561.

Shalom Lappin and Nissim Francez (1994), "E-Type Pronouns, I-Sums, and Donkey Anaphora",

    Linguistics and Philosophy 17, pp. 391-428.

Shalom Lappin and U. Shlonsky (1993), "Impersonal Passives", Linguistics 31, pp. 5‑24.

Michael McCord, Arendse Bernth, Shalom Lappin, and Wlodek. Zadrozny (1992), "Natural

    Language  Processing within the Slot Grammar Framework", International Journal of Tools

    for Artificial Intelligence 1, pp. 229‑277.

Shalom Lappin and Michael McCord (1990), "Anaphora Resolution in Slot Grammar",

    Computational Linguistics 16, pp. 197‑212.

Shalom Lappin (1989), "Donkey Pronouns Unbound", Theoretical Linguistics 15,

    pp. 263‑286

Shalom Lappin and T. Reinhart (1988), "Presuppositional Effects of Strong Determiners: A

    Processing Account", Linguistics, special issue on the syntax and semantics of NP's, Vol. 26,

    No. 6, pp. 1021‑137.

Shalom Lappin (1988), "The Semantics of 'Many' as a Weak Determiner", Linguistics, special

    issue on the syntax and semantics of NP's, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 977‑998.

Nomi Erteschik‑Shir and Shalom Lappin (1987), "Dominance and Modularity", Linguistics 25,

    pp. 671‑685.

Shalom Lappin (1985), "Pronominal Binding and Coreference", Theoretical Linguistics 12,

    pp. 241‑263.

Shalom Lappin (1984), "VP Anaphora, Quantifier Scope, and Logical Form" Linguistic Analysis

    13, pp. 273-315. 

Nomi Erteschik‑Shir and Shalom Lappin (1983), "Under Stress: A Functional Explanation of

    English Sentence Stress", Journal of Linguistics 19, pp. 419‑453.

Nomi Erteschik‑Shir and Shalom Lappin (1983), "Dominance and Extraction: Reply to A. Grosu",

   Theoretical Linguistics 10, pp. 81‑96.

Shalom Lappin (1982), "Quantified Noun Phrases and Pronouns in Logical Form", Linguistic

    Analysis 10, pp. 131‑159.

Shalom Lappin (1982), "On the Pragmatics of Mood", Linguistics and Philosophy 4,

    pp. 559‑578.

Shalom Lappin (1982), "Classical Logic and Existentially Quantified Noun Phrases", Theoretical

    Linguistics 7, pp. 145‑155.

Shalom Lappin (1980), "Why One Ought to Care about Identity across Possible Worlds in Moral

    Judgements: Reply to Freundlich", Ratio, Vol. XXII, No. 2, pp.167‑169.

Nomi Erteschik‑Shir and Shalom Lappin (1979), “Dominance and the Functional Explanation of

    Island Phenomena”, Theoretical Linguistics 6, pp. 41‑86.

Shalom Lappin (1978), "Sortal Incorrectness, Bivalence, and Classical Validity", Manuscrito,

    Vol. II, No. 1, pp. 89‑104.

Shalom Lappin (1978), "Moral Judgements and Identity across Possible Worlds", Ratio, Vol.

    XX, No. 1, pp. 69‑74. (An earlier version of this paper appeared in Hebrew in M. Dascal (ed.)

    (1978), Ha‑Tzodek  ve Ha‑Bilti‑Tzodek, University Publishing Projects, Tel Aviv,

     pp. 173-178.)

Shalom Lappin (1976), "Goodman and Katz on Synonymy", Philosophical Studies 29,

    pp. 279‑281.

 

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:

 

Alexander Clark and Shalom Lappin (2011), “Computational Learning Theory and Language

    Acquisition” in Ruth Kempson, Tim Fernando, and Nicholas Asher (eds.), Handbook of  the

    Philosophy of Science, Volume 14: Philosophy of Linguistics, Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 441-471.

Alexander Clark and Shalom Lappin (2010), “Unsupervised Learning and Grammar Induction” in

    Alexander Clark, Chris Fox, and Shalom Lappin (eds.), The  Handbook of Computational Linguistics

    and Natural Language Processing, Wiley Blackwell, Malden MA and Oxford, pp. 197-220.

Raquel Fernandez, Jonathan Ginzburg, Howard Gregory, and Shalom Lappin

    (2007),“SHARDS: Fragment Resolution in Dialogue” in H. Bunt and R. Muskens (eds.),

    Computing Meaning Vol 3, Springer, Berlin and New York, pp. 125-144.

Chris Fox and Shalom Lappin (2005), “Polymorphic Quantifiers and Underspecification in

    Natural Language” in S. Artemov, H. Barringer, A. d’Avilla Garcez, L. Lamb, and J.

    Woods (eds.), We Will Show Them: Essays in Honour of Dov Gabbay, Vol 1, College

    Publications, London, pp. 687-700.

Shalom Lappin (2005), “A Sequenced Model of Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution” in A.

    Branco, A, McEnery, and R. Mitkov (eds.), Anaphora Processing: Linguistic, Cognitive,

    and Computational Modelling, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 3-16.

Christian Ebert, Howard Gregory, Shalom Lappin, and Nicolas Nicolo (2003), “Full

    Paraphrases for Fragments in Dialogue” in J. van Kuppevelt and R. Smith (eds.), Current

    and NewDirections in Discourse and Dialogue, Kluwer, pp.161-181.

Shalom Lappin (2003), “Semantics” in R. Mitkov (ed.), The Handbook of Computational

    Linguistics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 91-111.

Chris Fox and Shalom Lappin (2001), “A Framework for the Hyperintensional Semantics of

    Natural Language with Two Implementations” in Groote, P. de, G. Morrill, and C. Retore

    (eds.), Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial

    Intelligence, Berlin and New York, pp. 175-192.

Shalom Lappin (2000), "An Introduction to Formal Semantics" in M. Aronoff and J. Rees-Miller

    (eds.),  The Blackwell Handbook of Linguistics, Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 369-393.

Shalom Lappin (2000), "Logicality and Semantic Types for Natural Language" in H. Bennis, M.

    Everaert, and E. Reuland (eds.), Interface Strategies, Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences,

    Amsterdam, pp. 223-238.

Howard Gregory and Shalom Lappin (1999), "Antecedent Contained Ellipsis in HPSG" in  G.

    Webelhuth, J.P. Koenig, and A. Kathol (eds.), Lexical and Constructional Aspects of

    Linguistic Explanation, CSLI, Stanford, CA, pp. 331-356.

Shalom Lappn (1999), "An HPSG Account of Antecedent Contained Ellipsis" in S. Lappin and

    E. Benmamoun (eds.), Fragments: Studies in Ellipsis and Gapping, Oxford University Press,

    New York, pp. 68-97.

Shalom Lappin (1996), "The Interpretation of Ellipsis" in S. Lappin (ed.), Handbook of

    Contemporary Semantic Theory, Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 145-175.

Shalom Lappin (1993), "||Many|| as a Two‑Place Determiner Function" in J. Yan and M. Cobb

    (ed)., SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, pp. 337-358.

Shalom Lappin (1991), "Concepts of Logical Form in Linguistics and Philosophy" in Asa Kasher

    (ed.), The Chomskyian Turn, Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 300‑333.

Shalom Lappin (1983), "Truth, Correspondence, and Meaning" (in Hebrew) in L. Rauch (ed.),

    Readings in Contemporary Philosophy, Yachdav, Tel Aviv, pp. 97‑115.

Shalom Lappin (1979), "Spinoza's Theory of Innate Ideas" (in Hebrew) in M. Brinker, M. Dascal,

    and D. Nesher (eds.), Baruch Spinoza, University Publishing Projects, Tel Aviv, pp.53‑59.

 

PAPERS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

 

Alexander Clark and Shalom Lappin (2009), “Restricting Probability Distributions to Expand

    The Class of Learnable Languages”, Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing

    2009, Borovetz, Bulgaria (abstract with slides, invited keynote talk).

Alexander Clark and Shalom Lappin (2009), “Another Look at Indirect Evidence”,

    Proceedings of the EACL Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computatial Language

    Acquisition, Athens, pp. 26-33.

Shalom Lappin (2005) “Machine Learning and the Cognitive Basis of Natural Language” in

    Proceedings of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2004, Leiden, pp. 1-11

    (invited keynote lecture).  

Chris Fox and Shalom Lappin (2005), “Achieving Expressive Completeness and

    Computational Efficiency for Underspecified Semantic Representations” in Proceedings of

    The Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, pp. 77-82.

Raquel Fernandez, Jonathan Ginzburg, and Shalom Lappin (2005), “Using Machine Learning

     for Non-Sentential Utterance Classification” in Proceedings of ACL SIGdial Workshop on

    Discourse and Dialogue  6, Lisbon, pp. 77-86.

Raquel Fernandez, Jonathan Ginzburg, and Shalom Lappin (2005), “Automatic Bare Sluice

    Disambiguation in Dialogue” in Proceedings of IWCS-6, Tilburg, pp. 115-127.

Chris Fox and Shalom Lappin (2004), “A Type-Theoretic Approach to Ellipsis Resolution” in

    N. Nicolov, K. Botcheva, G. Angelova, and R. Mitkov (eds.), Recent Advances in Natural

    Language Processing III: Selected Papers from RANLP 2003, John Benjamins,

    Amsterdam, pp. 1-16 (invited keynote talk).

Raquel Fernandez, Jonathan Ginzburg, and Shalom Lappin (2004), “Clarifying Ellipsis in

    Dialogue: A Machine Learning Approach” in Proceedings of COLING 2004, Geneva,

    pp. 240-246.

Chris Fox and Shalom Lappin (2003), “Doing Natural Language Semantics in an Expressive

    First-Order Logic with Flexible Typing” in G. Jaeger, P. Monachesi, G. Penn, and S.

    Wintner (eds.), Proceedings of Formal Grammar 2003, Vienna, pp. 89-102.

Chris Fox, Shalom Lappin, and Carl Pollard (2002) “Intensional First-Order Logic with

    Types” in G. Alberti, K. Balough, and P. Dekker (eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh

    Symposium for Logic and Language, Pecs, Hungary, pp. 47-56.

Chris Fox, Shalom Lappin, and Carl Pollard (2002) “A Higher-Order Fine-Grained Logic for

     Intensional Semantics” in G. Alberti, K. Balough, and P. Dekker (eds.), Proceedings of the

     Seventh Symposium for Logic and Language, Pecs, Hungary, pp.37-46.

Chris Fox, Shalom Lappin, and Carl Pollard (2002), “First-Order Curry-Typed Logic for

    Natural Language Semantics”in S. Wintner (ed.), Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on

    Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming, Copenhagen, pp. 87-102.

Jonathan Ginzburg, Howard Gregory, and Shalom Lappin (2001), “SHARDS: Fragment

    Resolution in Dialogue” in H. Bunt, I. van der Slius, and E. Thijsse (eds.), Proceedings of the

    Fourth International Conference on Computational Semantics, Tilburg, pp. 156-172.

Jonathan Ginzburg, Howard Gregory, and Shalom Lappin (2000), “A Dialogue System for

    Interpreting Fragments”, in Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2000 Workshop on Linguistic Theory

    and Grammar Implementation, ESSLLI, Birmingham, UK, pp. 187-199.

Howard Gregory and Shalom Lappin (1997), "A Computational Model of Ellipsis" in G-J Kruiff,

    G. Morrill, and R. Oehrle (eds.), Proceedings of the Conference on Formal Grammar,

    ESSLLI, Aix-en-Provence.

David Johnson and Shalom Lappin (1997), "Wh-Questions: Unification in a Typed Feature

    Structure Grammar vs. Feature Checking in the Minimalist Program" in E. Doron and S.

    Wintner (eds.), Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Israel Association for

    Theoretical  Linguistics, pp. 91-99.

Shalom Lappin and Hsue-Hueh Shih (1996), "A Generalized Reconstruction Algorithm for

    Ellipsis Resolution in Proceedings of COLING-96, pp. 687-692.

Shalom Lappin (1995), "Logicality and the Determination of Syntactic Categories in Natural

    Language" in Proceedings of the Fourth Bar-Ilan Symposium on Foundations of Artificial

    Intelligence, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

Shalom Lappin (1993), "Ellipsis Resolution at S‑Structure" in A Schafer (ed.) Proceedings of

    NELS 23, GLSA, University of Massachusetts, pp. 255‑269.

Shalom Lappin (1992), "The Syntactic Basis of Ellipsis Resolution" in S. Berman and A. Hestvik

    (eds.), Proceedings of the Stuttgart Workshop on Ellipsis, Arbeitspapiere des

    Sonderforschungsbereich 340, Bericht Nr. 29‑1992.

Shalom Lappin and Michael McCord (1990), "A Syntactic Filter on Pronominal Anaphora for

    Slot Grammar", Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational

    Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh, pp. 135‑142.

Igal Golan, Shalom Lappin, and M. Rimon (1988), "An Active Bilingual Lexicon for Machine

    Translation", Proceedings of COLING '88, Budapest, pp. 205‑211.

Shalom Lappin (1984), "Predication and Raising" in C. Jones and P. Sells (eds.), Proceedings of

    NELS 14, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, pp. 236‑252.

Shalom Lappin (1983), "The Theta‑Criterion and Pronominal Binding" in P. Sells and C. Jones

    (eds.), Proceedings of  NELS 13, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, pp. 121‑128.

 

TECHNICAL REPORTS:

 

Arendse Bernth and Shalom Lappin (1991), A Meaning Postulate Based Inference System for   

    Natural Language, Technical Report RC 16947, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY.

Igal Golan, Shalom Lappin, and M. Rimon (1989), Computing Grammatical Functions from

    Configurational Parse Trees, Technical Report 88.268, IBM Science and Technology and

    Scientific Center, Haifa.