Talha Bedir

About Talha Bedir

I am a PhD student in Computational Linguistics and I am working on processing of generic and normative statements. The most cliché example being "You do not shout in a library". Processing of such sentences not only requires a smart analysis of deontic and epistemic modality types but also awareness of affordances and their meaning with respect to the environment. Lately, I started to expand my work towards human-robot interaction as well. Examining the relationship between humans and robots with respect to processing and the generation of these generic statements are truly interesting for me--and getting scarily relevant for the world as well.

My work is primarily comprised of following areas of linguistics:

• Semantics & Pragmatics

• Interactional Linguistics

• Computational Linguistics

My current research interests are:

• human robot interaction

• processing and generation of ethical and normative statement

• formalization of ethical and normative statements