Linguistics, the systematic study of human language, lies at the crossroads of the humanities and the social sciences, drawing on a special combination of intuition and rigor that the analysis of language demands. With its further goal to model the cognitive mechanisms for acquiring and storing the knowledge of language, linguistics is also closely related to the cognitive sciences.
The department’s focus spans most of the major subfields of linguistics, with particular strengths in areas of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, as well as computational linguistics, historical linguistics and language documentation. Our department integrates a strong theoretical emphasis with experimental approaches and careful attention to language description and documentation. The Cornell Phonetics Laboratory is fully equipped and provides an integrated environment for the experimental study of speech and language, including its production, perception and acquisition. The Computational Linguistics Lab supports theoretical and applied work in the area of computational modeling.
Department websiteMunther A. Younes
Reis Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language and Linguistics
Publications
Books
- RiHla ilaa Bilaad al-‘Arab: A Comprehensive Introductory Course for Arabic Heritage Speakers. Routledge 2021.
- Arabiyyat al-Naas fii MaSr, Part I, with Makda Weatherspoon, Elizabeth Huntley and Jonathan Featherstone, Routledge 2020. (A first-year Arabic textbook with an audio and video component.)
- Kalila wa Dimna for Students of Arabic, Second Edition, Routledge 2020.
- Charging Steeds or Maidens Performing Good Deeds: In Search of the Original Qur’an. Routledge, 2019.
- The Integrated Approach to Arabic Instruction, Routledge 2015.
- Arabiyyat al-Naas, Part III, (for third-year Arabic), with Yomna Chami, Routledge 2014.
- Arabiyyat al-Naas, Part II, (for second-year Arabic), with Hanada al-Masri, Routledge, 2013.
- Arabiyyat al-Naas, Part I (for first-year Arabic), with Makda Weatherspoon and Maha Saliba Foster, Routledge 2013.
- The Routledge Introduction to Qur’anic Arabic, Routledge 2013.
Articles
- “Entering the House through the Front Door: The Integrated Approach to Arabic Instruction”, to appear in Relating Arabic L2 Teaching to CEFR Guidelines: Principles, Approaches, and Practices (Proceedings of the conference “Mastering Arabic Variation” held at the University of Genoa, Italy in September 2018.
- “Solving the Arabic Language Dilemma: First Steps”. In Revisiting Levels of Contemporary Arabic in Egypt: Essays on Arabic Varieties in Memory of El-Said Badawi, edited by Zeinab Taha. The American University in Cairo Press, 2020.
- (With Elizabeth Huntley) “From an MSA-Only to a Fully Integrated AFL Curriculum”. In The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics. Edited by Enam El-Wer and Uri Horesh. Routledge, 2019.
- “To Separate or to Integrate, That Is the Question”. In Arabic Integration. Edited by Mahmoud al-Batal. Georgetown University Press, 2018.
- “Blessing, Clinging, Familiarity, Custom -- or Ship: A New Reading of the Word Īlāf in Q 106”, Journal of Semitic Studies LXII/1 Spring 2017.
- “Angels, Death, the Soul, Stars, Bows--or Women?: The Opening Verses of Qur’an 79.” New Perspectives on the Qur’aan: The Qur’an in Its Historical Context 2”. Edited by Gabriel Said Reynolds. London and New York: Routledge 2011.
- “In Suffering or in Honor: A Reinterpretation of Q 90 (al-Balad)”, Die Entstehung einer Weltreligion I. Edited by Markus Groß and Karl-Heinz Ohlig. Berlin/Tübingen: Verlag Hans Schiller 2010.
- “The Case for Integration” The NECTFL Review. Fall-Winter 2009.
- “Ingrate or Honorable: A reexamination of the word kanuud in Qur’an:100 (Al-‘Aadiyaat)”, Arabica 56, 2009.
- “Charging Steeds or Maidens Doing Good Deeds: A Re-Interpretation Of Qur’an 100 (Al-‘Aadiyaat)”, Arabica 55, 2008.
- “On ’I‘raab, Power, and Language Reform in the Arab World”, Al-‘Arabiyya 40-41, 2008.
- “Bringing Hamza under Control: A Proposal for Simplifying Hamza-Writing Rules in Arabic”. Al-'Arabiyya 38-40, 2008.
- “Integrating the Colloquial with Fusha in the Arabic-as-a-Foreign-Language Classroom”, in Handbook for Arabic language teaching professionals in the 21st century (edited by Kassem M. Wahba, Zeinab A. Taha, Liz England).Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006.
- “Redundancy and productivity in Palestinian Arabic verb derivation”, in Proceedings of the Third International Conference of AIDA (Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe), 2000.
- "An Integrated Curriculum for Teaching Elementary Arabic," The Teaching of Arabic in the 1990’s: Directions and Issues, 1995.
- "On Vowel Shortening in Palestinian Arabic," Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics VII: Papers from the Seventh Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, 1995.
- "On Emphasis and /r/ in Arabic," Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics VI: Papers from the Sixth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, 1994.
- "Emphasis Spread in Two Arabic Dialects," Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics V: Papers from the Fifth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, 1993.
- "An Integrated Approach to Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language," Al-‘Arabiyya 23, 1990.
- "The Stressing of Superheavy Syllables by Saudi Learners of English: Implications for the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis," Proceedings of the Third Annual Yarmouk University Linguistics Conference, Irbid, Jordan, 1984.
- "Emphasis and the Low Vowels in Palestinian Arabic”, Texas Linguistics Forum 23, 1984.
Education
- Ph.D. Department of Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin, 1982.
- Diploma, 1975, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan (English as a second language)
- B.A., 1974 University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan (English Language and Literature)
Departments and programs
John B. Whitman
Professor
Publications
Publications on Syntactic Variation:
- The position and interpretation of neʔ-headed nominal constituents in Gayogohó꞉nǫʔ (Cayuga). (2023). with Henhawk, S. In Huijsmans, Marianne , D. K. E. Reisinger, and Rose Underhill (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas 25, Vancouver, BC: UBCWPL.
- Neural correlates of semantic number: A cross-linguistic investigation. (2022). with Dunagan, D., Zhang, S., Li, J., Bhattasali, S., Pallier, C., Yang, Y. & Hale, J. Brain and Language, 229.
- Conditional conjunctions informed by Japanese and Korean. (2022). with Kaufmann, M. Linguistics Vanguard 8(s4): 479–490.
- A multiple correspondence analysis of the latent structure of features in Linguistic Typology (2). (2018). with О̄no, Y., Yoshino, R., & Hayashi, F. Mathematical Linguistics 31.4, 261-280.
- Topic prominence. (2017). with Paul, W. In Everaert, Martin and Henk C. van Riemsdijk (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition, 4473-4504. New York: Wiley and Sons.
- Diachronic interpretations of word order parameter cohesion. (2017). with О̄no, Y. In Mathieu, Eric and Robert Truswell (Eds.), From Micro-change to Macro Change, 43-60. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
- Deconstructing clausal noun modifying constructions. (2015). with Bugaeva, A. In Kenstowicz, Michael, Theodore Levin, and Ryo Masuda (Eds). Japanese/Korean Linguistics 23. Stanford: CSLI.
- Uncertainty in processing relative clauses across East Asian languages. (2015). with Yun, J., Chen, Z., Hunter, T., & Hale, J. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 24(2), 113-148.
- Iwayuru ajia-siki kankeisetsu ni tsuite いわゆるアジア式関係節について [On so-called Asian-type relative clauses]. (2015). In Fukuda, S., Nishida, K., and Tamura, T. (Eds.), Gengo kenkyū no shiza 言語研究の視座 [Perspectives of Linguistic Research]. Tokyo: Kaitakusha, 188-203.
- The prehead relative clause problem. (2013). In Özge, U. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistic (pp. 361-380). Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
- Postpositions vs. prepositions in Mandarin Chinese: The articulation of disharmony. (2013). with Djamouri, R. & Paul, W. In Biberauer, T (Ed.) Theoretical approaches to disharmonic word orders, 74-105. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Introduction: Nominalizations in syntactic theory. (2011). with Kornfilt, J. In J. Kornfilt & J. Whitman (Eds.), Lingua, 121(7), 1160-1163.
- Afterword: Nominalizations in syntactic theory. (2011). with Kornfilt, J. In J. Kornfilt & J. Whitman (Eds.), Lingua, 121(7), 1297-1313.
- Applicative structure and Mandarin ditransitives. (2010). with Paul, W. In Huidbro, S. et al (Eds.) Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations, 261-282. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- The classification of constituent order generalizations and diachronic explanation. (2008). In J. Good (Ed.), Linguistic universals and language change, 233-252. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Shi… de focus clefts in Mandarin Chinese. (2008). with Paul, W. The Linguistic Review, 25(3-4), 413-451.
- Expletive and thematic applicatives. (2008). with Georgala, E. & Paul, W. In Proceedings of WCCFL 26, 181-189.
- Ditransitives and applicative structure in Greek. (2007). with Georgala, E. In Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 43.1, 77-91. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
- Preverbal elements in Korean and Japanese. (2005). In G. Cinque & R. Kayne (Eds.), Handbook of Comparative Syntax, 880-902. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Kayne 1994: p. 143, fn. 3. (2001). In G. Alexandrova & O. Artunova (Eds.), The Minimalist Parameter, 77-100. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- A type of head-in-situ construction in English. (2000). with Tsubomot, A. Linguistic Inquiry, 31(1), 176-183.
Publications on Diachronic Topics:
- Syntactic glosses and historical syntax. (2022), with Troberg, M. In L. Grestenberger, C. Reiss, H. A. Fellner, and G. Z. Pantillon (Eds.), Ha! Linguistic Studies in Honor of Mark R. Hale, 369-394. Weisbaden: Reichert Verlag.
- Glossing and reading in western Europe and East Asia: a comparative case study. (2022). with Moran, P. Speculum 97.1, 112-139.
- Gloss to Lexicon East and West: A comparison of the relationship between glossing and lexicography in medieval East Asia and Europe, with a translation of the preface to the Shinsen jikyō (898-901). (2020). In Wada, Yoko (ed.) Trends in Eastern and Western Literature, Medieval and Modern, 11, 43-72. Osaka: Kansai University Tōzai gakujutsu kenkyūsho.
- A comparative approach to the vowel systems and harmonies in the Transeurasian languages and beyond. (2020). with Joseph, A. & Ko, S. In Robbeets, Martine, Alexander Savelyev, and Nataliia Hübler (Eds.) Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages, 486-508. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- On the Significance of the Glosses in Vietnamese Classical Chinese Texts. (2018). with Kosukegawa, T. Journal of Vietnamese Studies 13.3, 28-49.
- Comparative consequences of the tongue root harmony analysis for proto-Tungusic, proto-Mongolic, and proto-Korean. (2014). with Ko, S. & Joseph, A. In M. Robbeets & B. Bickel (Eds.), Paradigm Change: In the Transeurasian languages and beyond (pp. 141-176). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- The diachronic consequences of the RTR analysis of Tungusic vowel harmony. (2012). with Joseph, A. In Özge, U. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics, Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
- Misparsing and syntactic reanalysis. (2012). In A. van Kemenade & N. de Haas (Eds.). Historical Linguistics 2009: Selected Papers from the 19th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, 69-87. John Benjamins Publishing.
- Syntactic change in Chinese and the argument-adjunct asymmetry. (2013). with Djamouri, R. & Paul, W. In G. Cao, H. Chappell, R. Djamouri, & T. Wiebusch, Breaking down the barriers: Interdisciplinary studies in Chinese linguistics and beyond (557-594).
- Introduction. (2012). with Jonas, D. & Garrett, A. Grammatical change: origins, nature, outcomes (pp. 1-12). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- The formal syntax of alignment change. (2012). with Yanagida, Y. In C. Galves, S. Cyrino, R. Lopes, F. Sandalo, J. Avelar (Eds.), Parameter theory and dynamics of change, 177-195. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Reanalysis and conservancy of structure in Chinese. (2005). with Paul, W. In M Batlori (Ed.), Grammaticalization and parametric change (pp. 82-94). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Relabeling. (2001). In S. Pintzuk, G. Tsoulas, & A. Warner (Eds.), Diachronic Syntax: Models and Mechanisms. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Publications on Japanese Synchrony:
- Gengo shigen toshite no Nihongo (Japanese as a linguistic resource). (2011). with Kinsui, S., Shimizu, Y., & Yada, T. KinIn Bungaku (Iwanami Shoten), 12(3), 2-51.
- Prenominal complementizers and the derivation of complex NPs in Japanese and Korean. (2011). with Frellesvig, B. In W. McClure (Ed.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 18, 73-87. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
- Clefts in Japanese and Korean. (2008). with Cho, S. & Yanagida, Y. In Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 44(1), 61-77. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
- Give as a Higher Verb: Reassessing Nakau. (2001). In Minoru Nakau Festschrift Editorial Committee (Eds.), Imi to katachi no intaafeesu (The interface of meaning and form) (pp. 445-470). Tokyo: Kuroshio Press.
- Right dislocation in English and Japanese. (2000). In K. Takami & J. Whitman (Eds.), Syntactic and Functional Exploration: In Honor of Susumu Kuno (pp. 445-470). Kuroshio Press.
- Gojun to kukōzō 語順と句構造 [Word order and phrase structure]. (1998). In Takezawa, K. and J. Whitman, Kaku to gojun to tōgo kōzō 『格と語順と統語構造』[Case, word order, and syntactic structure]. Nakau, M. (Ed.), Nichieigosensho 『日英語選書 9』. Tokyo: Kenkyusha.
Publications on Japanese Diachrony:
- Contested vernacular readings, c. 800-830 CE: the Satō-bon Kegon mongi yōketsu and the Tōdaiji fujmonkō. (2022). In Clarke, Michael and Ní Mhaonaigh, Máire (eds.) Medieval Multilingual Manuscripts: Case Studies from Ireland to Japan, 13-33. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
- The evolving Japanese: The dual structure hypothesis at 30. (2020). with Hudson, M. & Nakagome, S. Evolutionary Human Sciences 2, E6.
- The Transitivization/Detransitivation Profile of Japanese and Korean. (2020). with Cho, S. In Barrie, Michael (ed.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics 27. Stanford: CSLI.
- Grammaticalization in Japanese and Korean. (2018). with Narrog, H. & Rhee, S. In Narrog, Heiko and Bernd Heine (Eds.) Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, 166-188. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
- Raten-go kyōten no dokuhō to butten no kundoku ラテン語教典の読法と仏典の訓 (The reading of sacred texts in Latin and vernacular reading of Buddhist texts). (2015). In Niikawa, T. 新川登亀男 (Ed.) Bunmei idō tosite no "bukkyō jō : Zōkei, gengo, moji 『文明移動としての「仏教」上〜造形・言語・文字』(Buddhism as movement of civilization: The plastic arts, language, and writing). Tokyo: Benseisha.
- A Korean grammatical borrowing in Early Middle Japanese kunten texts and its relation to the syntactic alignment of earlier Korean and Japanese. (2012). with Yanagida, Y. In S. Nam, H. Ko, & J. Jun (Eds.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 21. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
- The relationship between Japanese and Korean. (2012). In D. N. Tranter (Ed.), The Languages of Japan and Korea, 24.
- Genesis of indefinite pronouns in Japanese and Korean. (2011). with Kinuhata, T. In W. McClure (Ed.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 18, 88-100. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
- Hiteikōzō to rekishiteki henka – shuyōbu to hitei kyokusei hyōgen o chūsin ni (The structure of negation and historical change – with a focus on headedness and negative polarity expressions). (2010). In Y. Katō et al (Eds.), Hitei to gengo riron (Negation and linguistic theory) (141-169). Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
- Ninshō to kakkaku ruikei – Jōdai Nihongo no daimeishi taikei no kanten kara (Person and active typology – from the standpoint of the pronominal system of Old Japanese). (2009). with Yanagida, Y. In A. Tsubomoto et al (Eds.), Uchi to soto no gengogaku (The linguistics of “inside” and “outside”). Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
- Alignment and word order in Old Japanese. (2009). with Yanagida, Y. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 18(2), 101-144.
- Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects, 294. (2009). with Frellesvig, B. John Benjamins Publishing.
- The Japanese/Korean vowel correspondences. (2008). with Frellesvig, B. In M. E. Hudson et al (Eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 13, 15–28. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
- Evidence for seven vowels in proto-Japanese. (2008). with Frellesvig, B. Proto-Japanese (15-41). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- The source of the bigrade conjugation and stem shape in pre-Old Japanese. (2008). In B. Frellesvig & J. Whitman (Eds.), Proto-Japanese, 159-174. Amsterdam, John Benjamins.
- The vowels of proto-Japanese. (2004). with Frellesvig, B. Japanese language and literature, 281-299.
- Personal pronoun shift in Japanese: A case study in lexical change and point of view. (1999). Function and Structure: In Honor of Susumu Kuno (pp. 357-386). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Publications on Korean:
- Old Korean. (2015). In L. Brown & J. H. Yeon (Eds.), The Handbook of Korean Linguistics (pp. 421-438). London: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Subject-object asymmetries in Korean sentence comprehension. (2010). with Yun, J. & Hale, J. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
- The syntax of overmarking and kes in child Korean. (2009). In C. Lee et al. (Eds.) The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics (221-230). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Licensing of multiple negative polarity items. (2004). with Kuno, S. In Y. Kim-Renaud & J. Whitman (Eds.), Studies in Korean Syntax and Semantics by Susumu Kuno, 207-228.
- Direct movement passives in Korean and Japanese. (2003). with Park, S. D. In W. McClure (Ed.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 12, 307-321. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
- The proto-Korean shape of ha-‘do'. (2003). In S.O. Lee (Ed.), Pathways into Korean Language and Culture: Essays in Honor of Young-Key Kim-Renaud (pp. 463-470). Seoul: Pajigong Press.
Other Topics:
- The ubiquity of the gloss. (2011). Scripta, 3, 95-121.
- Northeast Asian linguistic ecology and the advent of rice agriculture in Korea and Japan. (2011). Rice, 4(3-4), 149-158.
- Toward an international vocabulary for research on vernacular readings of Chinese texts (漢文訓讀 Hanwen Xundu). (2010). with Alberizzi, V. L., Tsukimoto, M., Kosukegawa, T., Takada, T., Oh, M., & Park, J. Scripta, 2, 61-83.
- Kokugogaku versus Genogaku: Language process theory and Tokieda’s construction of Saussure sixty years later. (2009). In M. Bourdaghs (Ed.), The Linguistic Turn in Contemporary Japanese Literary Studies: Textuality, Language, Politics. Michigan: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Literary Studies.
Reviews:
- [Review of A history of Korean, by K.M. Lee & S.R. Ramsey]. (2013). In Korean Linguistics, 15(2).
- [Review of The Role of Contact in the Origins of the Japanese and Korean Languages, by J. Marshall Unger]. (2010). The Journal of Asian Studies, 69(4), 1268-1270.
- [Review of Issues in East Asian Language acquisition, by M. Nakayama (Ed.)]. (2006). Language, 82(3), 662-665.
- [Review of Ruins of identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands, by M. Hudson]. (2002). Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 62(1), 256-265.
Departments and programs
Links
Michael L Weiss
Professor
Departments and programs
Samuel Tilsen
Professor
W. Starr
Associate Professor
Mats Rooth
Professor
Publications
Abusch, Dorit and Mats Rooth (2023). Parallel and differential contributions from language and image in the discourse representation of picturebooks. To appear in proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 27 (preprint).
Abusch, Dorit and Mats Rooth (2022). Pictorial free perception. Linguistics & Philosophy (s10988-022-09370-1, 1813/111282).
Rooth, Mats (2022). Adverbs of quantification. In A Reader's Guide to Classical Papers in Formal Semantics, edited by Zoltan Szabo and Luise McNally (10.1007/978-3-030-85308-2, 1813/69894).
Abusch, Dorit and Mats Rooth (2022). Temporal and intensional pictorial conflation. Sinn und Bedeutung 26 (1813/111128).
Campbell, Eric and Mats Rooth (2021). Epistemic semantics in guarded string models. SCiL 2021 (preprint).
Abusch, Dorit and Mats Rooth (2021). Modalized normality in pictorial narratives. Sinn und Bedeutung 25 (preprint).
Rooth, Mats and Dorit Abusch (2019). Indexing across media. Proceedings of 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium (1813/69652).
Rooth, Mats and Dorit Abusch (2018). Picture descriptions and centered content. Sinn und Bedeutung 21 (1813/69892).
Abusch, Dorit and Mats Rooth (2017). The formal semantics of free perception in pictorial narratives. 21st Amsterdam Colloquium, Dec. 2017 (pdf).
Rooth, Mats (2017). Finite state intensional semantics. International Conference on Computational Semantics, Montpellier, Sept. 2017 (1813/52500).
Howell, Jonathan, Mats Rooth, and Michael Wagner (2017). Acoustic classification of focus: On the web and in the lab. Laboratory Phonology 8(1), 16 (10.5334/labphon.8).
Rooth, Mats and Dorit Abusch (2017). Picture descriptions and centered content. Sinn und Bedeutung 21 (pdf).
Rooth, Mats (2016). Alternative semantics. In Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Information Structure . Oxford University Press. (book info, preprint).
Rooth, Mats (2015). Representing focus scoping over new. In Thuy Bai and Deniz Özyildiz (eds.) Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth Annual Meeing of the North East Linguisic Society. (1813/40860)
Rooth, Mats (2014). Operators for definition by paraphrase. In a Festschrift for Ede Zimmermann: Approaches to Meaning: Composition, Values, and Interpretation, edited by Daniel Gutzmann, Jan Kopping and Cécile Meier (book info, postprint).
Lutz, David, Parry Cadwallader and Mats Rooth (2013). A web application for filtering and annotating web speech data. Web as Corpus 8, July 2013 (1813/33464).
Data and Software
Rooth, Mats, (2015). Kaldi-alignments-matlab. Display and play Kaldi phone alignments. Github.
Rooth, Mats, (2014). Replication data for: Operators for definition by paraphrase, doi:10.7910/DVN/25512 Harvard Dataverse Network [Distributor] V1 [Version].
Recent and Upcoming Presentations
Semantic ellipsis after all? Evidence from focus and Boolean antecedents. Colloquium, Tel Aviv University, June 22, 2023.
Parallel and differential contributions from language and image in the discourse representation of picturebooks. Sinn und Bedeutung 27, September 2022.
Intensional and temporal pictorial conflation. Sinn und Bedeutung 26, September 2021.
Epistemic semantics in guarded string models. SCiL 2021, Feb. 15-19 2021.
Modalized normality in pictorial narratives. Sinn und Bedeutung 25, September 2020 (slides).
Is there reference to questions in the grammar of focus? Workshop on Focus, Alternative Semantics and Information Structure at SALT30, August 2020 (slides).
Indexing across media. 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium, 2019.
Formal semantics of pictorial narratives. ESSLLI 2018, 30th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Sofia, August 2018 (course description).
Departments and programs
Links
Alan Jeffrey Nussbaum
Professor
Publications
- academic article
- Arcadian λευτον (IG V.ii.3, 3) Plus/Minus λευτοντες (IG V.ii.16, 10). Scripta Classica Israelica. 32:1-19. 2013
- PIE ‑Cmn- and Greek τρᾱνής ‘clear’. Ex Anatolia Lux: Anatolian and Indo-European studies in honor of H. Craig Melchert. 269-277. 2010
- book
- Two Studies in Greek and Homeric Linguistics. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 1998
- Head and Horn in Indo-European. Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter. 1986
- chapter
- Feminine, Abstract, Collective, Neuter Plural. Studies on the Collective and Feminine in Indo-European from a Diachronic and Typological Perspective. Boston. 273-306. 2014
Departments and programs
Keywords
Greek and Latin Linguistics
Sarah Murray
Associate Professor
Departments and programs
Links
Lillian Lee
Professor
Publications
General audience
- "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that": Linguistics, statistics, and natural language processing circa 2001.
Lillian Lee.
Computer Science: Reflections on the Field, Reflections from the Field, National Academies Press, pp. 111–118, 2004. - A matter of opinion: Sentiment analysis and business intelligence (position paper).
Lillian Lee.
Written for the IBM Faculty Summit on the Architecture of On-Demand Business, 2004.
Sentiment analysis
- Opinion mining and sentiment analysis.
Bo Pang and Lillian Lee.
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval 2(1-2), pp. 1&ndash135, July 2008.
A monograph surveying the field (note the singular). - The power of negative thinking: Exploiting label disagreement in the min-cut classification framework.
Mohit Bansal, Claire Cardie, and Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of COLING, 2008. Poster paper. - Using very simple statistics for review search: An exploration.
Bo Pang and Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of COLING, 2008. Poster paper. - Get out the vote: Determining support or opposition from Congressional floor-debate transcripts.
Matt Thomas, Bo Pang, and Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of EMNLP, pp. 327–335, 2006. - Seeing stars: Exploiting class relationships for sentiment categorization with respect to rating scales.
Bo Pang and Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of the ACL, pp. 115–124, 2005. - A sentimental education: Sentiment analysis using subjectivity summarization based on minimum cuts.
Bo Pang and Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of the 42nd ACL, pp. 271–278, 2004. - Thumbs up? Sentiment classification using machine learning techniques.
Bo Pang, Lillian Lee, and Shivakumar Vaithyanathan.
Proceedings of EMNLP 2002, pp. 79–86.
Information retrieval
- IDF revisited: A simple new derivation within the Robertson-Spärck Jones probabilistic model.
Lillian Lee.
Procedings of SIGIR, pp. 751–752, 2007. Poster paper. - Respect my authority! HITS without hyperlinks, utilizing cluster-based language models.
Oren Kurland and Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of SIGIR, pp. 83–90, 2006. - PageRank without hyperlinks: Structural re-ranking using links induced by language models.
Oren Kurland and Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of SIGIR, pp. 306–313, 2005. - Better than the real thing? Iterative pseudo-query processing using cluster-based language models.
Oren Kurland, Lillian Lee, and Carmel Domshlak.
Proceedings of SIGIR, pp. 19–26, 2005. - Corpus structure, language models, and ad hoc information retrieval.
Oren Kurland and Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of SIGIR, pp. 194–201, 2004. - Iterative residual rescaling: An analysis and generalization of LSI.
Rie Kubota Ando and Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of the 24th SIGIR, pp. 154–162, 2001.
Generation
- Catching the drift: Probabilistic content models, with applications to generation and summarization.
Regina Barzilay and Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of HLT-NAACL, pp. 113–120, 2004. - Learning to paraphrase: An unsupervised approach using multiple-sequence alignment.
Regina Barzilay and Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of HLT/NAACL 2003, pp. 16–23. - Bootstrapping lexical choice via multiple-sequence alignment.
Regina Barzilay and Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of EMNLP, pp. 164–171, 2002.
Distributional similarity
- On the effectiveness of the skew divergence for statistical language analysis.
Lillian Lee.
Artificial Intelligence and Statistics 2001, pp 65–72, 2001. - Measures of Distributional Similarity.
Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of the 37th ACL, pp 25–32, 1999. - Distributional similarity models: Clustering vs. nearest neighbors.
Lillian Lee and Fernando Pereira.
Proceedings of the 37th ACL, pp 33–40, 1999. - Similarity-based models of word cooccurrence probabilities (pre-publication version).
Ido Dagan, Lillian Lee, and Fernando Pereira.
Machine Learning 34(1-3), special issue on natural language learning, pp 43–69, 1999. - Similarity-Based Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation.
Ido Dagan, Lillian Lee, and Fernando Pereira.
Proceedings of the 35th ACL/8th EACL, pp 56–63, 1997. - Similarity-Based Approaches to Natural Language Processing.
Lillian Lee.
Ph.D. thesis.
Harvard University Technical Report TR-11-97. - Similarity-Based Estimation of Word Cooccurrence Probabilities.
Ido Dagan, Fernando Pereira, and Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of the 32nd ACL, pp 272–278, 1994. - Distributional clustering of English words.
Fernando Pereira, Naftali Tishby, and Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of the 31st ACL, pp 183–190, 1993.
Of related interest: Baker and McCallum's SIGIR '98 paper, Distributional Clustering of Words for Text Classification, favorably compares [PTL 93] to LSI and other algorithms. Segmentation
- Mostly-Unsupervised Statistical Segmentation of Japanese Kanji Sequences (pre-publication version).
Rie Kubota Ando and Lillian Lee.
Natural Language Engineering 9(2), pp. 127–149, 2003. - Mostly-Unsupervised Statistical Segmentation of Japanese: Applications to Kanji.
Rie Kubota Ando and Lillian Lee.
First Conference of the NAACL, pp. 241–248, 2000. - Unsupervised Statistical Segmentation of Japanese Kanji Strings.
Rie Ando and Lillian Lee.
Cornell University CS Technical Report TR99-1756, 1999.
Context-free languages
- Fast Context-Free Grammar Parsing Requires Fast Boolean Matrix Multiplication.
Lillian Lee.
Journal of the ACM 49(1), pp. 1-15, 2002.
Conference version appeared in the Proceedings of the 35th ACL/8th EACL, pp 9–15, 1997. - Learning of Context-Free Languages: A Survey of the Literature.
Lillian Lee.
Harvard University Technical Report TR-12-96 (written in 1994).
Reviews and pedagogy
- A new start: Innovative introductory AI-centered courses at Cornell.
Eric Breck, David Easley, K-Y Daisy Fan, Jon Kleinberg, Lillian Lee, Jennifer Wofford, and Ramin Zabih.
AAAI Spring Symposium on Using AI to Motivate Greater Participation in Computer Science, AAAI Technical Report SS-08-08, pp. 8-13, 2008. - A non-programming introduction to computer science via NLP, IR, and AI.
Lillian Lee.
ACL Workshop on Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics, pp 32–37, 2002. - Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing by Christopher D. Manning and Hinrich Schütze [review] (prepublication version).
Lillian Lee.
Computational Linguistics 26(2), pp 277–279, 2000.