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Alex Lascarides | |
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Born | Alexandra Lascarides |
Alma mater | Durham University (BSc) University of Edinburgh (MSc, PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computational Linguistics Semantics Pragmatics[1] |
Institutions | University of Edinburgh |
Thesis | A formal semantic analysis of the progressive (1988) |
Doctoral advisor | Barry Richards[2] |
Website | homepages |
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]
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]
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]
Lascarides’ publications[1][6] include:
In 2023 she was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).[7]