Donkey sentences: From computational and experimental perspectives

22 November 2023, 2:00 pm–5:00 pm

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A workshop with speakers Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge), Lachlan McPheat (UCL) and Daphne Wang (UCL)

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to: All | UCL staff | UCL students
Cost: Free
Organiser: Institute of Advanced Studies

instituteofadvancedstudies@ucl.ac.uk
Location: IAS Forum

G17, ground floor, South Wing

UCL, Gower Street, London

WC1E 6BT

United Kingdom

This workshop is organised by the UCL Language and Meaning Centre

Programme

2pm – Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge), ‘Linguists who use probabilistic models love them: On thresholds, scope DAGs, and priming’

3pm - Lachlan McPheat & Daphne Wang (UCL), ‘Distributional Compositional Categorical Semantics for Donkey Sentences’

4pm – Richard Breheny & Yasu Sudo (UCL), ‘Donkey sentences in context – experimental research’