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TED GIBSON

 

GRAD STUDENTS
[in order of seniority, starting with least senior]

 

Steve Piantadosi

Steve is interested in using methods from information theory, machine
learning, and Bayesian modeling to understand language processing and
acquisition. He is currently working on information-theoretic methods to
quantify the usefulness and interaction of information sources in
disambiguation, and a Bayesian model of the acquisition of compositional
semantics.
Steve’s webpage

 

Mike Frank

Mike is interested in the mechanisms of language acquisition: the tools that infants and young children bring to bear on the problems of word segmentation, word learning, and grammar learning.  In order to learn to communicate, learners must combine distributional information about the language they hear with other information about the physical and social world around them.  Mike looks at this puzzle using a variety of methods, including behavioral experiments with adults, children, and infants, and computational models of corpus data.
Mike’s webpage

 

John Kraemer

John is interested in how top-down semantic intentions interact with bottom-up structural constraints to determine the surface forms of linguistic expression.  He is currently investigating how this class of phenomenon is expressed in readers' use of statistical information in sentence comprehension, as well as in the structural patterns governing discourse production.

 

AFFILIATES/COLLABORATORS

 

Ev Fedorenko

Ev is interested in the question of the extent of domain-specificity in the mind and brain with regard to language and other cognitive systems. She is currently pursuing a postdoc in Nancy Kanwisher's lab investigating the functional architecture and the extent of domain-specificity of the language system using fMRI. She is also continuing to pursue a number of projects aimed at understanding the memory systems underlying language processing at TedLab.
Ev's webpage

Tyler Perrachione

Tyler's webpage

Florian Jaeger (University of Rochester)

Florian's webpage

Roger Levy (UCSD)

Roger's webpage

 

POSTDOCS

We are currently living in a postdoc-free environment.

We are collaborating with Virginia Savova (of Josh Tenenbaum’s lab).

 

VISITORS

Meredith Brown
Fall 2006 – present

 

 

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Spring 2008
TBD

 

ALUMS

• Ex-grad students:

Mara Breen (2007)
Current location: University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA)
Website: http://www.people.umass.edu/mbreen/

Ev Fedorenko (2007)
Current location: MIT (Cambridge, MA)
Website: http://web.mit.edu/evelina9/www

Florian Wolf (2004)
Current location: Munchen, Germany
Website: http://www.mergeflow.com/aboutUs.aspx

Ken Nakatani (2004)
Current location: Japan
Website: n/a

Franny Hsiao (2003)
Current location: Dallas, TX
Website: n/a

Dan Grodner (2002)
Current location: Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
Website: n/a

Duane Watson (2002)
Current location: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, IL)
Website: http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~dgwatson/

Tessa Warren (2001)
Current location: University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)
Website: http://www.pitt.edu/~tessa/

Edson Miyamoto (1998)
Current location: University of Tsukuba (Japan)
Website: http://www.lingua.tsukuba.ac.jp/etm/

Masha Babyonyshev (1996)
Current location: Yale University (New Haven, CT)
Website: http://www.yale.edu/linguist/faculty/masha.html

Carson Schutze (1995)
Current location: UCLA (Los Angeles, CA)
Website: http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/cschutze/

Colin Phillips (1995)
Current location: University of Maryland (College Park, MD)
Website: http://www.ling.umd.edu/colin/

 

• Ex postdocs:

Jared Novick
Current location: University of Maryland (College Park, MD)
Website: n/a

Michael Wagner
Current location: Cornell University, NY (Ithaca, NY)
Website: http://ling.cornell.edu/people/chael/

Doug Rohde
Current location: Google, NYC
Website: http://tedlab.mit.edu/~dr/
Real Website: http://www.google.com

San Tunstall
Current location: Cambridge, MA
Website: n/a

Edith Kaan
Current location: University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ekaan/

Whitney Tabor
Current location: University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT)
Website: http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~ps300vc/tabor.html

 

• Ex visitors:

Harry Tily
Current location: Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
Webpage: http://www.stanford.edu/~hjt/

Atanas Chanev
Current location: University of Trento (Italy)
Webpage: http://web.hit.bg/chanev/

Florian Jaeger
Current location: Rochester University (Rochester, NY)
Webpage: http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/fjaeger/index.html

Emannuel Bellengier
Current location: France
Webpage: n/a

Timmy Desmet
Current location: Belgium (We have lost Timmy to the business world)
Webpage: http://users.ugent.be/~tidesmet/

John Hale
Current location: Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)
Webpage: http://www.msu.edu/~jthale/

 

• Ex UROPs still working on language (to the best of our knowledge)

Erin Conwell
Current location: Brown University (Providence, RI)
Webpage: http://www.cog.brown.edu/~econwell/

Christina Kim
Current location: Rochester University (Rochester, NY)
Webpage: http://csk1.bol.ucla.edu/

 

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