Research

Current grants

• SNF Advanced Grant

                  Disentangling linguistic intelligence:

automatic generalisation of structure and meaning across languages

• NCCR Evolving Language

Research Topics

• Compositionality and generalisation in distributed representations.
• Lexical and syntactic notions of similarity in distributed spaces

• The Grammatical Basis of Linguistics Frequencies
• Corpus and computational investigations of intervention effects

• Multi-lingual Propagation of Syntactic and Semantic Role Annotation

• Function and Semantic Role Parsing

• Corpus-based Techniques for the Acquisition of Verb's Argument Structure applied to Several Language

• Architecture and Frequency in Human Acquisition and Sentence Processing

• Computational Learning in Adaptive Systems for Spoken Conversation