Mats Rooth

Mats Rooth is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Cornell University and Director of the Computational Linguistics Lab. He holds a PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1985). His research focuses on computational linguistics and natural language semantics, with notable work on mixed symbolic/probabilistic models, intonation, ellipsis, and presupposition. Current projects include finite state optimality theory and web-based intonational data harvesting.

Education: PhD in Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst (1985).

Research Interests: Computational semantics, formal semantics, phonology, syntax, and discourse representation. His work bridges theoretical linguistics with computational methods, particularly in analyzing intonation patterns and cross-media semantics.

Lab Leadership: Leads the Computational Linguistics Lab at Cornell, fostering interdisciplinary research in language technology and formal semantics.