Jakub Szymanik

Meaning and Computation Lab

Output of ERC grant Cognitive Semantics and Quantities summing up much of my research on up to 2022.

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I am an Associate Professor at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CiMeC) and the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Trento. Before joining CiMeC through a direct call in 2022, I held the same position at the University of Amsterdam (2013–2022), where I led research projects at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation. I hold the Italian National Scientific Qualification as a Full Professor in Linguistics (10/G1) and as an Associate Professor in Computer Science (INF01).

Ease of Learning Explains Semantic Universals

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Finally, the Cognition paper with Shane is out. We argue that ease of learnability explains cross-linguistic universals across various semantics domains, including content and function words. We first recall our …

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A new class on Semantics & Cognition

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The past decade has seen increasing interaction between cognitive science and formal semantics and the emergence of the new field of experimental semantics. It feels like the ties between semantics …

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Learnability of Quantifiers @ESSLLI 2019

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I have just arrived in Riga for ESSLLI 2019. Tomorrow, Shane and I start teaching the class on the learnability of quantifiers. Only a very limited subset of the mathematically …

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Summer School on Interacting Minds

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To kick-off the Interacting Minds Joint Research Center of University of Amsterdam and Edinburgh University we organize a summer school. We decided on the Dutch Coast, just that everyone feels …

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