Alex Lascarides

Alex Lascarides
FRSE
Born
Alexandra Lascarides
Alma materDurham University (BSc)
University of Edinburgh (MSc, PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsComputational Linguistics
Semantics
Pragmatics[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
ThesisA formal semantic analysis of the progressive (1988)
Doctoral advisorBarry Richards[2]
Websitehomepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/alex Edit this at Wikidata

Alexandra Lascarides is a linguist and chair in Semantics in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research investigates computational linguistics and artificial intelligence.[1]

Early life and education

Lascarides graduated from Durham University where she was a student of Van Mildert College, Durham with a first-class degree in mathematics.[3][4] She moved to the University of Edinburgh for her graduate studies, earning a master's degree in cognitive science in 1985. She stayed at Edinburgh for her doctoral research on semantic analysis.[2]

Research and career

Her research investigates the semantics of communicative actions in conversation. She explored the science of conversation in the Logics of Conversation, and presented a framework known as Segmented Discourse Representation Theory to better understand linguistics and language.[5]

Select publications

Lascarides’ publications[1][6] include:

  • Asher, Nicholas; Lascarides, Alex (2003). Logics of conversation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-65058-5. OCLC 51607413.
  • Lascarides, Alex; Asher, Nicholas (1993-10-01). "Temporal interpretation, discourse relations and commonsense entailment". Linguistics and Philosophy. 16 (5): 437–493. doi:10.1007/BF00986208. ISSN 1573-0549.
  • Asher, N; Lascarides, Alex (1998-02-01). "Bridging". Journal of Semantics. 15 (1): 83–113. doi:10.1093/jos/15.1.83. ISSN 0167-5133.
  • Asher, N; Lascarides, Alex (1998-08-01). "The semantics and pragmatics of presupposition". Journal of Semantics. 15 (3): 239–300. doi:10.1093/jos/15.3.239. ISSN 0167-5133.

Awards and honours

In 2023 she was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).[7]


References

  1. ^ a b c Alex Lascarides publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b Lascarides, Alexandra (1988). Formal semantic analysis of the progressive. ed.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/6736. OCLC 21008059. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.234152.
  3. ^ "Results of Final Examinations June 1984". University of Durham Gazette 1983/84. Vol. II (Combined Series). 1984. p. 96. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  4. ^ "Alex Lascarides". University of Edinburgh Research Explorer. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  5. ^ "Logics of Conversation | Computational linguistics". Cambridge University Press. June 2015. ISBN 9780521659512. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  6. ^ Alex Lascarides at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  7. ^ "Professor Alex Lascarides". rse.org.uk. Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2023-04-29.