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Aaron Steven White is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Rochester, with secondary appointments in the Department of Computer Science and affiliation with the Goergen Institute for Data Science. He directs the Center for Language Sciences (CLS) and the Formal and Computational Semantics Lab (FACTS.lab). His research focuses on computational semantics, exploring syntactic and semantic relationships in natural language, particularly through projects like the MegaAttitude Project (analyzing clausal predicates) and the Decompositional Semantics Initiative (annotating corpus data for semantic parsers). He holds a PhD from the University of Maryland (2015) and was a postdoc at Johns Hopkins University (2015–2017).
Research Interests:
- Formal semantics and computational models
- Syntax-semantics interface
- Natural language understanding systems
- Event structure decomposition
- Neuroimaging of linguistic processing
Recent Work Trends: His publications emphasize computational models of clause selection, temporal interpretation in nonfinite clauses, and large-scale corpus annotation frameworks. Key contributions include the Universal Decompositional Semantics dataset and tools for cross-lingual information extraction.
Lab & Affiliations: Leads CLS (an interdisciplinary language sciences hub) and FACTS.lab (specializing in formal semantics). Collaborates widely, including with Julian Grove on summer schools.
