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Mandy SimonsView profile

Professor

• Linguistic Pragmatics
• Philosophy of Language
• Semantics
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Mandy Simons is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh. She serves as Director of CMU's Program in Linguistics, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration across philosophy, linguistics, and cognitive science. Her research centers on linguistic pragmatics and philosophy of language, with core expertise in presupposition, conversation without common ground, embedded implicature, nominal bridging, and disjunction. She has developed foundational frameworks for projective content taxonomy and conversational dynamics, significantly advancing the semantics-pragmatics interface through rigorous theoretical analysis and empirical investigation. Recent publications reveal deep engagement with computational approaches to pragmatic phenomena, including large language model analysis of presupposition judgments and cognitive mechanisms underlying bridging inferences. Her work consistently bridges theoretical linguistics with philosophical inquiry, examining how context shapes linguistic meaning across diverse discourse environments. In her leadership role directing CMU's Linguistics Program, she cultivates an intellectual hub connecting formal semantics with cognitive and computational approaches to language, hosting workshops and facilitating cross-departmental research initiatives.

• Deep Learning for NLP
• Information Extraction
• Coreference Resolution
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Juntao Yu is a Lecturer in Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London's School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. Previously, he held a Lecturer position at the University of Essex and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Queen Mary University on the ERC-funded DALI project under Professor Massimo Poesio. His PhD from the University of Birmingham focused on out-of-domain dependency parsing under Dr. Bernd Bohnet. Research Interests: Deep Learning for NLP, Coreference Resolution, Conversational AI, Dependency Parsing, Domain Adaptation, and Multi-task Learning. His work emphasizes scalable anaphora resolution systems, hybrid crowdsourcing approaches for corpus development, and cross-linguistic NLP challenges. He has contributed to major frameworks like the Universal Anaphora Scorer and the ARRAU corpus family. Yu's recent research explores large language model capabilities in coreference tasks and dialogue system evaluation. He maintains active collaboration with industry through projects like the CODI-CRAC shared tasks. Labs/Teams: Active member of the School's Natural Language Processing group and collaborator with the DALI project team.

• Information Retrieval
• Natural Language Processing
• Dialogue Systems
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Prof. Dr. Udo Kruschwitz is a Full Professor of Information Science at the University of Regensburg since July 2019. Previously, he held a professorship at the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex. His research bridges Information Retrieval (IR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), focusing on adaptive search systems, dialogue modeling, gamification for annotation, and ethical issues in search technology. Key projects: COURAGE (Volkswagen Stiftung-funded virtual companion for social media safety), SENSEI (Horizon 2020 conversational analytics), and collaborative works with industry (Signal Media, Minority Rights Group). Research themes include: IR/NLP integration Conversational systems Gamified annotation platforms (Phrase Detectives) Arabic language resources Privacy-preserving search strategies His publications span query suggestion algorithms, crowdsourcing validation techniques, and hate speech detection. He has co-organized major events like Search Solutions and GamifIR workshops, and founded the Data Science @ Regensburg meetup. Scientific awards include the 2015 InnovateUK Knowledge Transfer Partnership Project of the Year. Current teaching includes Advanced Topics in IR and Natural Language Engineering modules. Serves as Senior Academic Advisor for Signal AI and mentor for numerous doctoral candidates.

Andrej A. KibrikView profile

Professor

• Linguistic diversity
• Field linguistics
• Language and cognition
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Andrej A. Kibrik is Professor at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of Lomonosov Moscow State University’s Philological Faculty, and concurrently serves as Director of the Institute of Linguistics and Head of the Department of Typology and Areal Linguistics at the Russian Academy of Sciences. A Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and member of Academia Europaea , he has held visiting appointments at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Oregon, University of Arizona, and UC Santa Barbara. Education 1979–1984: M.A. in Linguistics, Moscow State University, Philological Faculty 1984–1988: Ph.D. (Candidate of Science), Institute of Linguistics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR 2003: Doctor of Science dissertation, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences Research Interests His work integrates linguistic diversity , field linguistics , and language & cognition through a functional-typological lens. Core themes include discourse structure , multimodality (prosody, gesture, sign language), corpus linguistics , and computational modeling . Empirically, he focuses on Athabaskan languages (especially Upper Kuskokwim), Caucasian , Turkic , West African , and Russian sign language , producing comprehensive grammatical descriptions and developing theoretical frameworks for non-discrete cognitive structures. Publications Trend Recent monographs and edited volumes (2009–2017) cluster around discourse analysis , corpus construction , and language documentation , with notable works on Ninilchik Russian and spoken-Russian corpora, reflecting an enduring commitment to combining empirical richness with cognitive-theoretical depth. Scientific Awards & Honors Russian Science Support Foundation Award (2008–2010) Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Scholarships (2000, 2006) Fulbright Scholarships (1995, 1996–1997) President’s Scholarship for Outstanding Young Scholars (1994) IREX Scholarships (1991, 1991–1992) Advising, Grants & Leadership He has supervised numerous MA and PhD students, including Ekaterina Èl’bert and Natalia Molchanova, whose diploma theses advanced his multimodal discourse experiments. Since 2011 he coordinates linguistics projects for the Russian Foundation for Basic Research . He served as President of the Interregional Association for Cognitive Studies (2012–2014) and is Editor-in-Chief of the longitudinal Encyclopedia “Languages of the World” . Laboratories & Teams At Moscow State University he heads the Center for Cognitive Studies within the Philological Faculty, fostering interdisciplinary research combining linguistics, psychology, and computational modeling.

Jan DvorakView profile

Lecturer

• Referential Semantics
• Syntax
• Comparative Linguistics
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Dr. Jan Dvorak is a Lecturer in French Linguistics at the Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès , affiliated with the Cognition, Languages, Ergonomics (CLLE) laboratory. He teaches Introduction to French Syntax and Phonetics/Phonology to undergraduate students, while preparing candidates for the 18th-century French language test in modern literature certification. PhD in Linguistics (2021) from ENS de Lyon - Université de Lyon Supervised by Céline Guillot-Barbance and Olga Nádvorníková Research Focus His research operates within Löbner’s Concept Types and Determination Theory , investigating: Grammaticalization of Czech ten into definite articles Deictic semantics in spoken French demonstratives Contrastive referential strategies between Czech and French Pragmatic effects in emotional demonstrative uses Emergent grammatical structures in informal registers Publication Trends Recent work spans 2019–2024 with a focus on: Comparative analysis of Czech-French demonstrative systems Grammaticalization processes in Slavic and Romance languages Corpus-driven studies of spoken language Definiteness markers in superlative constructions Deixis and reference chain dynamics Scientific Recognition Recipient of Prix Gallica for best dissertation in language sciences (2022) Published in Discours , Travaux de Linguistique , Scolia , and conference proceedings Technical Expertise TXM textometric software proficiency Corpus annotation and analysis Functional linguistic theory application Cross-linguistic typology

• Semantics
• Discourse Analysis
• Linguistics
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Josette Rebeyrolle is a Lecturer in Language Sciences at the University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès , affiliated with the Cognition, Languages, Language, Ergonomics (CLLE) research center. Her work spans discourse analysis, semantics, and corpus linguistics, focusing on referential continuity and discourse markers in educational contexts. Research Themes: Referential continuity ties, discourse markers, text world theory, corpus-based studies, and pragmatic markers in French. Collaborations: Frequent collaborator with Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac on annotation methodologies and student narrative analysis. Her recent publications explore the evolution of temporal expressions like "à un moment donné" and the pragmatic functions of discourse markers in both written and oral French. She has developed annotation tools like the RESOLCO and ANNODIS corpora for studying textual cohesion.