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Kyle Rawlins is a Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), where he heads the Semantics Lab located in Krieger Hall 105. His research focuses on semantics, pragmatics, syntax, and their intersections, often collaborating with labs like the Van Durme Lab in Computer Science. The Semantics Lab facilitates weekly meetings for discussing research, structured as seminars or traditional lab sessions, and co-organizes projects such as the Decomp Project and MegaAttitude Project.
- Current lab members include PhD students Karl Mulligan and Natalia Talmina.
- Notable collaborators: Ilaria Frana (University of Enna), Barbara Landau (JHU), Ben Van Durme (JHU CS), and Aaron Steven White (Rochester).
His research spans topics like:
- Questions Under Discussion (QUD) frameworks
- Evidentiality and bias in language
- Multimodal semantic parsing
- Decompositional semantics
- Pragmatic particles in Italian
Recent publications analyze polar questions, neural network representations, and discourse particles. The lab maintains a mailing list for event announcements, emphasizing collaborative research in semantics and computational linguistics.
