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= Shalom Lappin =

Shalom Lappin is a professor of computational linguistics at Kings college London. He studied a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy at York University in Toronto, graduating in 1970. Lappin then went onto study a Master of Arts and a PhD in philosophy before teaching philosophy at Ben Gurion University of the Negev (1974-1980) in Israel. Lappin then became the chair of the linguistics department at University of Ottawa (1980-1984).

Notable Works
Lappin focus' primarily on computational linguistics, a subfield of linguistics that specialises in the scientific process of understanding written and spoken language from a computational perspective. This includes the study of how computers process natural language, with the rapid growth of computer text generators its becoming a more researched subfield of linguistics. Computational linguistics has been around since the 1950's just after the development of the first computers in the early 1940's. Lappin has published many books and scholarly articles in his specialised field. Most notable works include; The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (2013), The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory (2019) and Complexity in Language Acquisition (2013).

Selected Publications

 * The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory (2019)
 * Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (2013)
 * Statistical Representation of Grammaticality Judgements: the Limits of N-Gram Models (2013)
 * Complexity in Language Acquisition (2013)
 * Computational Learning Theory and Language Acquisition (2012)
 * Expressiveness and Complexity in Underspecified Semantics (2010)
 * Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus (2010)
 * Another Look at Indirect Negative Evidence (2009)