Aaron White

Prof. Aaron White is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Rochester since 2017. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Maryland, College Park (2015), advised by Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz. Prior to Rochester, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University's Science of Learning Institute, affiliated with the Department of Cognitive Science and the Center for Language and Speech Processing. His research focuses on computational linguistics, syntax, semantics, and natural language processing, particularly in syntactic bootstrapping, propositional attitude verbs, and event structure decomposition.

Key research projects include leadership of the MegaAttitude Project and contributions to the JHU Decompositional Semantics Initiative. He teaches courses on statistical methods in linguistics, computational linguistics, and deep learning applications. His work bridges formal semantics, syntax, and computational models, emphasizing cross-linguistic analysis and parser development.

Publications span document-level information extraction, neg-raising inferences, and semantic typology. He has developed tools like the Decomp Toolkit for decompositional semantics. Current research explores lexicalization processes in parsers and temporal reasoning in NLI tasks.

Labs/Teams: JHU Decompositional Semantics Initiative, MegaAttitude Project.