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71
Citations
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1739
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2002 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 1993 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For contributions to the integration of syntax, semantics, and prosody in human language processing, using the framework of categorial grammars.

Overview

Mark Steedman is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily centers on the field of Computer Science, with a strong emphasis on Artificial Intelligence. Additional areas of specialization include Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their work addresses a variety of topics, including:

  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Topic Modeling
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Text Readability and Simplification
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Steedman has coauthored research extensively with several collaborators, notably:

  • Liane Guillou
  • Omri Abend
  • Louis Mahon
  • Mark Johnson
  • Nikita Moghe

Their publications frequently appear in the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  • Language Resources and Evaluation
  • Cognitive Science

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored include:

  • "Modeling Structure-Building in the Brain With CCG Parsing and Large Language Models", 2023, Cognitive Science
  • "Sources of Hallucination by Large Language Models on Inference Tasks", 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "A formal universal of natural language grammar", 2020, Language
  • "Cross-lingual Intermediate Fine-tuning improves Dialogue State Tracking", 2021, Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  • "Formal Basis of a Language Universal", 2021, Computational Linguistics

Throughout their career, Steedman has been recognized with several awards, including:

  • Member of Academia Europaea (2006)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2002)
  • Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (1993), for contributions to the integration of syntax, semantics, and prosody in human language processing, using the framework of categorial grammars

Best Publications

  • The syntactic process

    Mark Steedman

  • Temporal ontology and temporal reference

    Marc Moens;Mark Steedman

  • Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

    Christos Christodoulopoulos;Sharon Goldwater;Mark Steedman

  • Animated conversation: rule-based generation of facial expression, gesture & spoken intonation for multiple conversational agents

    Justine Cassell;Catherine Pelachaud;Norman Badler;Mark Steedman

  • Surface Structure and Interpretation

    Mark Steedman

  • Information Structure and the Syntax-Phonology Interface

    Mark Steedman

  • On the order of words

    Anthony E. Ades;Anthony E. Ades;Mark J. Steedman;Mark J. Steedman

  • Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

    Christos Christodoulopoulos;Sharon Goldwater;Mark Steedman

  • Dependency and Coordination in the Grammar of Dutch and English

    Mark Steedman

  • Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

    Yonatan Bisk;Siva Reddy;John Blitzer;Julia Hockenmaier

  • Structure and Intonation

    Mark Steedman

  • Combinatory grammars and parasitic gaps

    Mark Steedman;Mark Steedman

  • CCGbank: A Corpus of CCG Derivations and Dependency Structures Extracted from the Penn Treebank

    Julia Hockenmaier;Julia Hockenmaier;Mark Steedman;Mark Steedman

  • Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

    Bharat Ram Ambati;Tejaswini Deoskar;Mark Johnson;Mark Steedman

  • The psychology of syllogisms

    Philip N Johnson-Laird;Mark Steedman

  • Example selection for bootstrapping statistical parsers

    Mark Steedman;Rebecca Hwa;Stephen Clark;Miles Osborne

  • Combinatory Categorial Grammar

    Mark Steedman;Jason Baldridge

  • Generating facial expressions for speech

    Catherine Pelachaud;Norman I. Badler;Mark Steedman

  • A Generative Grammar for Jazz Chord Sequences

    Mark J. Steedman

  • Inducing Probabilistic CCG Grammars from Logical Form with Higher-Order Unification

    Tom Kwiatkowksi;Luke Zettlemoyer;Sharon Goldwater;Mark Steedman

  • APML, a Markup Language for Believable Behavior Generation

    Berardina De Carolis;Catherine Pelachaud;Isabella Poggi;Mark Steedman

  • Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing

    Michael Collins;Mark Steedman

  • Wide-coverage semantic representations from a CCG parser

    Johan Bos;Stephen Clark;Mark Steedman;James R. Curran

  • Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

    Tejaswini Deoskar;Christos Christodoulopoulos;Alexandra Birch;Mark Steedman

Frequent Co-Authors

Julia Hockenmaier
Julia Hockenmaier University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sharon Goldwater
Sharon Goldwater University of Edinburgh
Norman I. Badler
Norman I. Badler University of Pennsylvania
Catherine Pelachaud
Catherine Pelachaud Sorbonne University
Stephen Clark
Stephen Clark Cambridge Quantum Computing
Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson Macquarie University
Norbert Krüger
Norbert Krüger University of Southern Denmark
Bonnie Webber
Bonnie Webber University of Edinburgh
Tamim Asfour
Tamim Asfour Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Luke Zettlemoyer
Luke Zettlemoyer University of Washington

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