Research groups

In the Language and Perception research group we are looking at formal and distributional models (and anything in between) of language used by situated agents interacting with each other and with the physical world around them through action and perception.
We investigate areas such representations of meaning in computational approaches to language, action, and perception, for example of spatial descriptions, generations and interpretation of scene description, multi-modal communication, situated dialogue systems, and other.

The group runs a bi-weekly reading-group and offers two standing PhD courses:

• Language, Action, and Perception
• Representation of Meaning 

In 2018 we also organized (together with the Dialogue Research Group) Workshop on Dialogue and Perception.

Members of the Group:

Researchers:
Simon Dobnik (group leader)
Robin Cooper
Staffan Larsson
Shalom Lappin
Christine Howes
Ellen Breitholtz
Sharid Loáiciga

PhD students:
Bill Noble

and others.

Please find more information on the group's website.

We study dialogue from a number of different perspectives, including experimental, computational, formal and qualitative methods.

We have a dialogue reading group which meets fortnightly, please see our website for more details.

The main people in the dialogue research group are:

Christine Howes (group leader)
Ellen Breitholtz
Robin Cooper
Staffan Larsson
Eleni Gregoromichelaki
Ruth Kempson

PhD students:

Alexander Berman
Bill Noble                                                                                             

In addition, the following members of CLASP have research which overlaps with our area:

Simon Dobnik
Adam Ek
Asad Sayeed

In the "Machine Learning, Cognitive Modeling, and Natural Language Processing" (MLCMNLP) group, we are looking at bringing cognitive modeling and theoretical linguistics together with corpus-based, machine learning approaches to both traditional and recent natural language processing problems.  We cover a variety of activities with a particular emphasis on language resource development and applications of human-collected data, be it annotations or experimental results from psycholinguistic research.

Members of the group: In the "Machine Learning, Cognitive Modeling, and Natural Language Processing"

• Asad Sayeed (group leader)
• More or less everyone else in CLASP (faculty, Ph.D. students, postdocs) who is interested in machine learning approaches and human cognitive plausibility; these days this is literally just everyone.

Ph.D. students (of whom Asad is first supervisor)

• Vidya Somashekarappa
• Axel Almquist

Ph.D. courses

• Machine Learning, Cognitive Modeling, and Natural Language Processing (standing project/reading course)
• It's evaluation's world, we just live in it (to be offered second half of Fall 2020)

International collaborations

• Devdatt Dubhashi's group at Chalmers
• Yuval Marton (Bloomberg/University of Washington)
• Vera Demberg's group at Saarland University
• . . . and others, we are always seeking out collaboration opportunities.

Funded projects

• Gothenburg Research Initiative for Politically Emergent Systems (GRIPES) -- Marianne och Marcus Wallenbergstiftelsen, WASP-HS

The Type Theory group is devoted to the study of Type Theoretical methods for NLP and Formal Semantics. The group is led by Jean-Philippe Bernardy.

Group members:

• Jean-Philippe Bernardy
• Ellen Breitholtz
• Shalom Lappin
• Robin Cooper
• Staffan Larsson
• Bill Noble

The group’s activities involve invited talks by prominent researchers in the field, organizing workshops on Type Theory and exploring connections between Type Theory and Probability and/or Machine Learning.