My name is Simon Charlow. I'm an Associate Professor in the Rutgers Department of Linguistics.
I'm working on computational tools for doing natural language semantics. I use type theory and functional programming (now usually Haskell, previously OCaml) to develop models of how complex linguistic expressions come to have the meaning (or, often, meanings) they do, given the meanings of their parts. I'm interested in...
- Using monads and applicative functors to structure theories of meaning
- Parsing and/as type inference, and combinatory categorial grammar
- State and nondeterminism, scope and continuations
- Ambiguity, under-specification, and anaphora resolution
- Dynamic theories of semantics, and of discourse
- NLP, distributional models of meaning, and their role in compositional semantics
Aside from the code here, I have some gists. My contact info is on my website. Feel free to get in touch.