Alex Lascarides

Alexandra Lascarides[1] FRSE is a linguist and chair in Semantics at the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. Her research considers computational linguistics and artificial intelligence. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2023.

Alex Lascarides
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
Durham University
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
ThesisA formal semantic analysis of the progressive (1988)

Early life and education

Lascarides graduated from Durham University (Van Mildert College) with a first-class degree in mathematics.[2][1] 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.[3]

Research and career

Her research considers 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.[4] In 2023 she was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[5]

Select publications
  • Asher, Nicholas; Lascarides, Alex (2003). Logics of conversation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-65058-5. OCLC 51607413.
  • Lascarides, Alex; Asher, Nicholas (1993-10-01). "Temporal interpretation, discourse relations and commonsense entailment". Linguistics and Philosophy. 16 (5): 437–493. doi:10.1007/BF00986208. ISSN 1573-0549.
  • Asher, N; Lascarides, Alex (1998-02-01). "Bridging". Journal of Semantics. 15 (1): 83–113. doi:10.1093/jos/15.1.83. ISSN 0167-5133.
  • Asher, N; Lascarides, Alex (1998-08-01). "The semantics and pragmatics of presupposition". Journal of Semantics. 15 (3): 239–300. doi:10.1093/jos/15.3.239. ISSN 0167-5133.

References
  1. "Results of Final Examinations June 1984". University of Durham Gazette 1983/84. Vol. II (Combined Series). 1984. p. 96. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  2. "Alex Lascarides". University of Edinburgh Research Explorer. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  3. Lascarides, Alexandra (1988). Formal semantic analysis of the progressive (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/6736.
  4. "Logics of Conversation | Computational linguistics". Cambridge University Press. June 2015. ISBN 9780521659512. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  5. "Professor Alex Lascarides". Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
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