Biography
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 and in 2010 was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).
Research interests
- Computational linguistics
- Formal and computational semantics
- Logic
- Cognitive modelling of linguistic knowledge
Expertise and public engagement
Issues relating to natural language, linguistics, computational linguistics, language and human cognition, and natural language technology
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Lappin, S., Aug 2013, In: Linguistic Issues in Language Technology. 9, p. 1-12 12 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Clark, A., Giorgolo, G. & Lappin, S., Aug 2013, Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL). 2013 ed. Sofia: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 28-36 9 p. (Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics). Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
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Clark, A., Giorgolo, G. & Lappin, S., 31 Jul 2013, Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society 2013. Berlin: Cognitive Science Society. , p. 2064-2069 6 p. (Proceeding of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society). Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Poster abstract › peer-review
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Clark, A. & Lappin, S., Jan 2013, In: Topics in Cognitive Science. 5, 1, p. 89-110 22 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12001
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Clark, A. & Lappin, S., 2012, Philosophy of Linguistics. Kempson, R., Asher, N. & Fernando, T. (eds.). Amsterdam: Elsevier, p. 445-475 31 p. Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Fox, C. & Lappin, S., 2010, In: Linguistic Analysis. 36, 1-4, p. 1 - 33 33 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Clark, A. (ed.), Fox, C. (ed.) & Lappin, S. (ed.), 2010, First ed. Oxford and Malden MA: WILEY-BLACKWELL. Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Clark, A. & Lappin, S., 2010, First ed. Oxford and Malden MA: WILEY-BLACKWELL. Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Clark, A. (ed.), Fox, C. (ed.) & Lappin, S. (ed.), 2010, WILEY-BLACKWELL. Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Clark, A., Lappin, S. & Fox, C., 2010, Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. Clark, A., Fox, C. & Lappin, S. (eds.). Oxford and Malden MA: WILEY-BLACKWELL, p. 197 - 220 24 p. Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter