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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

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’