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Overview

Alex Lascarides is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of Computer Science, with a focus on artificial intelligence and related interdisciplinary areas.

Their research spans multiple subfields including:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Key topics of their work include:

  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Topic Modeling
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Speech and Dialogue Systems
  • Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies
  • Video Analysis and Summarization

Lascarides has authored several papers published in various venues, with notable recent works such as:

  • Understanding focus: Pitch, Placement and Coherence (2020) in Semantics and Pragmatics
  • Interactive task learning via embodied corrective feedback (2020) in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
  • Interactive Symbol Grounding with Complex Referential Expressions (2022) in Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
  • Dynamic Planning with a LLM (2023) in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Learning the Effects of Physical Actions in a Multi-modal Environment (2023) in arXiv (Cornell University)

The frequent publication venues where Lascarides's work appears include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Semantics and Pragmatics
  • Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
  • Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Their collaborations involve multiple frequent co-authors such as:

  • Emily M. Bender
  • Subramanian Ramamoorthy
  • Rimvydas Rubavicius
  • Gautier Dagan
  • Frank Keller

In addition to journal and conference publications, Lascarides has contributed to academic books, including a publication with Morgan & Claypool Publishers titled Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing II (2020).

Best Publications

  • Logics of conversation

    Nicholas Asher;Alex Lascarides

  • Temporal interpretation, discourse relations and commonsense entailment

    Alex Lascarides;Nicholas Asher

  • The semantics and pragmatics of presupposition

    Nicholas Asher;Alex Lascarides

  • DISCOURSE RELATIONS AND DEFEASIBLE KNOWLEDGE

    Alex Lascaridest;Nicholas Asher

  • Pragmatics and word meaning

    Alex Lascarides;Ann Copestake

  • Indirect Speech Acts

    Nicholas Asher;Alex Lascarides

  • Lexical Disambiguation in a Discourse Context

    Nicholas Asher;Alex Lascarides

  • Using automatically labelled examples to classify rhetorical relations: An assessment

    Caroline Sporleder;Alex Lascarides

  • Segmented Discourse Representation Theory: Dynamic Semantics With Discourse Structure

    Alex Lascarides;Nicholas Asher

  • An Algebra for Semantic Construction in Constraint-based Grammars

    Ann Copestake;Alex Lascarides;Dan Flickinger

  • Strategic conversation

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  • Questions in Dialogue

    Nicholas Asher;Alex Lascarides

  • A Formal Semantic Analysis of Gesture

    Alex Lascarides;Matthew Stone

  • A Statistical Approach to the Semantics of Verb-Particles

    Colin Bannard;Timothy Baldwin;Alex Lascarides

  • Probabilistic Head-Driven Parsing for Discourse Structure

    Jason Baldridge;Alex Lascarides

  • Default representation in constraint-based frameworks

    Alex Lascarides;Ann Copestake

  • A probabilistic account of logical metonymy

    Maria Lapata;Alex Lascarides

  • Order independent and persistent typed default unification

    Alex Lascarides;Ted Briscoe;Ted Briscoe;Nicholas Asher;Ann Copestake;Ann Copestake

  • Learning sentence-internal temporal relations

    Mirella Lapata;Alex Lascarides

  • Agreement, Disputes and Commitments in Dialogue

    Alex Lascarides;Nicholas Asher

  • Inferring Sentence-internal Temporal Relations

    Mirella Lapata;Alex Lascarides

  • Abducing Temporal Discourse

    Alex Lascarides;Jon Oberlander

  • Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics

    Julie Hunter;Nicholas Asher;Alex Lascarides

  • Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

    Alex Lascarides;Nicholas Asher

  • Metaphor in Discourse

    Nicholas Asher;Alex Lascarides

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas Asher
Nicholas Asher Toulouse Institute of Computer Science Research
Ann Copestake
Ann Copestake University of Cambridge
Jon Oberlander
Jon Oberlander University of Edinburgh
Mirella Lapata
Mirella Lapata University of Edinburgh
Oliver Lemon
Oliver Lemon Heriot-Watt University
Matthew Stone
Matthew Stone Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Verena Rieser
Verena Rieser Heriot-Watt University
Ted Briscoe
Ted Briscoe Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Jason Baldridge
Jason Baldridge Google (United States)
Dan Flickinger
Dan Flickinger Stanford University

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