About
Mark Steedman is a Professor of Cognitive Science at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research bridges Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, and Computational Linguistics, with a focus on Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG), Prosody and Intonation, and Temporal Semantics. He has led the Institute for Language, Cognition, and Computation and contributed to interdisciplinary research at the Human Communications Research Center and Centre for Speech Technology Research.
Research Interests: Steedman's work explores the intersection of formal grammar, computational models, and cognitive processes. He investigates how CCG parsing can enhance semantic inference, how prosodic features improve speech processing, and the role of temporal semantics in language understanding. His projects often integrate language models with entailment graphs for question answering and dialogue systems.
Scientific Awards:
- Fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (1993)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2002)
- Fellow of the British Academy (2002)
- Member of Academia Europaea (2006)
- Best Paper Awards at ACL 2023 and AACL/IJCNLP 2023
- Influential Paper Award (IFAAMAS 2017)
Recent Trends in Publications: His recent work emphasizes language models for semantic inference, entailment graphs in multilingual settings, and incremental parsing for brain-language interfaces. Papers address challenges in hallucination, cross-lingual transfer, and prosody-text alignment.
