Laura Rimell

Linguistics Department
New York University
726 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York NY 10003
USA

laurarimell@yahoo.com

Status: PhD student (ABD). I am also currently a Research Assistant in computational linguistics in the Computing Laboratory at Oxford University.

Research interests:

In linguistics, my main field of interest is semantics. My dissertation addresses the syntax, semantics, and morphology of conversion (zero-derivation) and related processes cross-linguistically. I also have an enduring interest in the semantics of habituals and other generics.

In computational linguistics, I am working on porting the C&C parser to the biomedical domain. I am interested in parsing and related machine learning problems.

In Spring 2005 I was a visiting Ph.D. student at the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation at the University of Amsterdam.

Papers and Presentations:

"Adapting a Lexicalized-Grammar Parser to Contrasting Domains" (with Stephen Clark). Poster, to appear in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-08), Honolulu, Hawaii, 2008. (Poster) (Paper)

"Constructing a Parser Evaluation Scheme" (with Stephen Clark). In Proceedings of the COLING Workshop on Cross-Framework and Cross-Domain Parser Evaluation, pp.44-50, Manchester, UK, 2008. (Paper)

"Linguistically Motivated Parsing of Biomedical Text" (with Stephen Clark). Poster, Finding the Hidden Knowledge: Text Mining for Biology and Medicine, Glasgow, February 21-22, 2008. (Poster)

"Split Antecedents in VP Ellipsis". Poster, NELS 37, UIUC, October 13-15, 2006. (Abstract) (Paper)

"Greek Demonstratives: Binding, Reference, and Ostension". University of Leiden Centre for Linguistics Wednesday Syntax Meeting, May 11, 2005. (Handout) (Paper available upon request)

"Habitual Sentences and Generic Quantification". WCCFL 23, Davis, April 23-25, 2004. (Paper)

"Habitual Sentences and Generic Quantification". Linguistics Association of NYU (LANYU) Forum, NYU, April 16, 2004. (See WCCFL paper)

"VP-Preposing and Relative Scope" (with Thomas Leu). Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC) 28, University of Pennsylvania, February 27-29, 2004. (Paper)

"English VP-Preposing and Relative Scope" (with Thomas Leu and Erez Levon). ConSOLE XI, Padova, December 4-6, 2002. (Paper)

"Towards a Stochastic OT Model of French Variable Liaison Using the Gradual Learning Algorithm". Long Island Sound Meeting, New York, May 10, 2002. (Paper available upon request)

"Subjects and Local Movement". University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics (UTASCIL) 9, Arlington, February 22-23, 2002. (Paper available upon request)