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Language and Perception (L&P) research group

In the Language and Perception research group we are looking at formal and distributional models (and anything in between) of language used by situated agents interacting with each other and with the physical world around them through action and perception. We investigate areas such as representations of meaning in computational approaches to language, action, and perception, for example of spatial descriptions, generation and interpretation of scene descriptions, multi-modal communication, situated dialogue systems, among others.

Members

Researchers:

  • Simon Dobnik (group leader)
  • Robin Cooper
  • Staffan Larsson
  • Shalom Lappin
  • Christine Howes
  • Ellen Breitholtz
  • Sharid Loaíciga

Doctoral students:

  • Mehdi Ghanimifard
  • Wafia Adouane
  • Yuri Bizzoni
  • Sylvie Saget
  • Vladislav Maraev
  • Bill Noble
  • Felix Morger (Språkbanken)

and others.

Participation in the group is open. Criteria for membership in this list is collaboration in a joint publication or for students attendance of a PhD course organised by the group.

Publications

The research activities can be broadly categorised into the following areas: (i) computational models of language, action and perception and in particular spatial language (Dobnik, Ghanimifard, Howes), (ii) semantic models of language and perception (Dobnik, Cooper, Larsson, and Lappin), (iii) visual co-references (initial work by Dobnik and Loaíciga), (iv) processing contextually diverse language in the case of Algerian (Adouane, Dobnik and Bernardy), (v) organisation of the dialogue and perception workshop and publication of proceedings (Howes, Dobnik, and Breitholtz).

For specific publications please see the individual publication lists of the members attached in the appendix.

The research interests of the group overlap with other groups in the following areas: (i) Type Theory group: formal semantic models of language, perception and action; (ii) Dialogue group: the interactive nature of language; (iii) Machine Learning group: computational models of language and perception.

Groups activities

The group runs a bi-weekly [https://gu-clasp.github.io/language-and-perception/meetings/](reading group) attended by both its senior and junior members and other members.

The group also currently offers two PhD courses:

The courses can be taken by students as (i) individual course, (ii) seminar course with a reading group, (iii) with a corresponding masters course, or a combination of several of all.

Other courses:

  • Type Theory with Records: From Perception to Communication (https://gul.gu.se/public/courseId/82209/coursePath/85951/ecp/lang-en/publicPage.do, [https://flov.gu.se/digitalAssets/1675/1675144_type-theory-with-records-from-perception-to-communication.pdf](course plan)), 7.5 hec, organised by Larsson
  • Language, Action and Perception (APL-ESSLLI), a shorter version of the local courses to be given at ESSLLI-2019 by Dobnik, Kelleher and Ghanimifard

In 2018 we have organised two workshops in this area:

Research visits to the group/talks

  • Andy Luecking, 12 December
  • Ielka van der Sluis, 20 November
  • Marco Baroni, 24 October

Active collaborations

  • John D. Kelleher, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
  • ?

Popular science presentations

  • Dobnik, Breitholtz, Ghanimifard and Adouane gave popular science talks at [http://vetenskapsfestivalen.se/](Vetenskapsfestivalen 2018) on 22 April 2018
  • Dobnik, Ghanimifard and Adouane presented a popular science presentations at departmental open house (Öppet hus) on 15 March

Group's [https://gu-clasp.github.io/language-and-perception/](wiki page).

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