Shalom Lappin#
Membership Number: | 3726 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
Elected: | 2014 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | https://clasp.gu.se/about/people/shalom-lappin |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 Professor of Computational Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability, University of Gothenburg
- 2005 - present Professor of Computational Linguistics, Department of Philosophy, King’s College London
- 2000 - 2005 Professor, Department of Computer Science, King’s College London
- 1999 - 2000 Professor, Department of Philosophy, King’s College, University of London
- 1993 - 1999 Professor (from 1995), Department of Linguistics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
- 1990 - 1993 Research Staff Member, Natural Language Group, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY
- 1990 - 1993 Adjunct Professor, Linguistics Program, Graduate Center, City University of New York
- 1989 - 1990 Visiting Scientist, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY
- 1988 - 1990 Associate Professor (tenured from October, 1988), Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University
- 1984 - 1988 Associate Professor (tenured from January, 1986), Department of English, University of Haifa
- 1981 - 1984 Associate Professor, Chair of Department, (tenured from July, 1982), Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa
Fields of Scholarship
- Syntax
- Probabilistic modelling of linguistic knowledge
- Semantics
- Computational linguistics
- Philosophy of language
- Computational learning theory applied to grammar induction
Honours and Awards
- 2012 - 2015 ESRC Professorial Fellowship funding the project The Probabilistic Representation of Linguistic Knowledge
- 2011 - 2014 Elected Chair of the Linguistics and Philology Section (H4) of the British Academy
- 2010 Elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)