Shalom Lappin

Recent Papers

 

Clark, A. and S. Lappin (2013), Complexity in Language Acquisition, Topics in Cognitive Science 5,  pp. 89-110.

Clark, A. and S. Lappin (2012), Computational Learning Theory and Language Acquisition in R. Kempson, N. Asher, and T. Fernando (eds.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Volume 14: Philosophy of Linguistics, Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 445-475.

Fox, C. and S. Lappin (2010), Expressiveness and Complexity in Underspecified Semantics, Linguistic Analysis 36, Festschrift for Joachim Lambek, pp. 385-417 (information about this volume of Linguistic Analysis is available from info@linguisticanalysis.com).                                   

Clark, A. and S. Lappin (2010), Unsupervised Learning and Grammar Induction in A. Clark, C. Fox, and S. Lappin (eds.), The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden MA and Oxford, pp. 197-220.

Clark, A. and S. Lappin (2009), Another Look at Indirect Negative Evidence, Proceedings of the EACL Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition, Athens, March 2009, pp. 26-33.

Fernandez, R., J. Ginzburg, and S. Lappin (2007), Classifying Non-Sentential Utterances in Dialogue: A Machine Learning Approach, Computational Linguistics 33(3), pp. 397-427. 

Lappin, S. and S. Shieber (2007), Machine Learning Theory and Practice as a Source of Insight into Universal Grammar, Journal of Linguistics 43(2), pp. 393-427. Copyright Cambridge University Press. Online issue of the Journal of Linguistics 43(2).

Fernandez, R., J. Ginzburg, H. Gregory, and S. Lappin (2007), SHARDS: Fragment Resolution in Dialogue in H. Bunt and R. Muskens (eds.), Computing Meaning Vol. 3, Springer, pp. 125-144.

Fox, C. and S. Lappin (2005), Achieving Expressive Completeness and Computational Efficiency for  Underspecified Semantic Representations, Proceedings of The Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, pp. 77-82.

Lappin, S. (2005), Machine Learning and the Cognitive Basis of Natural Language, Proceedings of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2004, Leiden, pp. 1-11.  

 

Fernandez, R., J. Ginzburg, and S. Lappin (2005), Using Machine Learning for Non-Sentential Utterance Classification , Proceedings of SIGdial 6, Lisbon, pp. 77-86.

Fox, C. and S. Lappin (2005), Underspecified Interpretations in a Curry-Typed Representation Language, Journal of Logic and Computation 15, pp. 129-141.

Lappin, S. (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.

Fernandez, R., J. Ginzburg, and S. Lappin (2005), Automatic Bare Sluice Disambiguation in Dialogue, Proceedings of the IWCS-6, Tilburg, pp. 115-127.

Fernandez, R., J. Ginzburg, and S. Lappin (2004), Classifying Ellipsis in Dialogue: A Machine Learning Approach, Proceedings of COLING 2004, Geneva, pp. 240-246.

Fox, C. and S. Lappin (2004), An Expressive First-Order Logic for Natural Language Semantics, Logic Journal of the International Group for Pure and Applied Logic 12, pp. 135-168.

Fox, C. and S. Lappin (2004), A Type-Theoretic Approach to Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution, in  N. Nicolov, R. Mitkov, G. Angelova, and K. Botcheva (eds.),  Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing III:  Selected Papers from RANLP 2003, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 1-16.

Fox, C. and S. 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.

Ebert, C., S. Lappin, H. Gregory, and N. Nicolov (2003), Full Parapharase Generation for Fragments in Dialogue in J. van Kuppevelt and R. Smith (eds.), Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue, Kluwer, pp.161-181.

Fox, C., S. Lappin, and C. 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.

Fox, C., S. Lappin, and C. 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.

Fox, C., S. Lappin, and C. Pollard (2002), First-Order Curry-Typed Logic for Natural Language Semantics in S. Wintner (ed.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming, Copenhagen, pp. 87-102.

Fox, C. and S. Lappin (2001), A Framework for the Hyperintensional Semantics of Natural Language with Two Implementations in P. de Groote, G. Morrill, and C. Retore (eds.), Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Berlin and New York, pp. 175-192.