Professor Shalom Lappin

Shalom Lappin is Professor of Computational Linguistics. He received his BA in Philosophy at York University, Toronto Canada (1970), and his MA (1973) and PhD (1976) in Philosophy at Brandeis University. He taught philosophy at Ben Gurion University of the Negev (1974-1980), Linguistics at the University of Ottawa (1980-84), where he was Chair of the Linguistics Department (1981-84), and linguistics at the University of Haifa (1984-88) and Tel Aviv University (1988-89).

He was a Research Staff Member in the Natural Language Group of the Computer Science Department at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (1989-93). He then took up a position in the Linguistics Department at SOAS, University of London (1993-99). He came to the Philosophy Department at King's in 1999, and then moved to the Computer Science Department, where he was head of the Natural Language Processing Group (2000-05). In September, 2005 he returned to the Philosophy Department.

His areas of research and teaching are formal and computational semantics, formal grammar, natural language processing, and logic. His current research activities include the formal foundations of semantics, type theory, machine learning, and the cognitive basis of natural language.

Selected publications

Contact Details
Telephone: 020 7848 2541
Email: shalom.lappin@kcl.ac.uk