Kees van Deemter

Date: 16:00 – 16:30, Thursday, 15.10.2020
Location: Teams ICS Colloquium

Title: Linking linguistics and computation: the case of quantified expressions.
Abstract: Large areas of Natural Language Processing have grown further and further apart from the concerns of researchers whose main interest is in language and communication. In this talk I will explore the question of what an optimal collaboration between linguists and computer scientists might look like, in light of the research questions, methods, and tools that both sets of researchers can now offer. The focus of my exploration will be the notion of quantification, which has long been studied by linguists and logicians, but which has not often been the focus of attention in modern NLP.