Computational

The application of computer science algorithms to the analysis and comprehension of natural language.

People

Formal & Computational Semantics

Simon Charlow

Associate Professor

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Computational & Mathematical Linguistics, Syntax

Robert Frank

Professor

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Computational

Tom McCoy

Assistant Professor

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Ayla Karakaş

Graduate Student

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Richard Luo

Graduate Student

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Isabella Senturia

Graduate Student

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Emanuel Souza de Quadros

Graduate Student

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Lena Strobl

Visiting Graduate Student

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Alessio Tosolini

Postgraduate Associate

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Herbert Zhou

Graduate Student

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Miranda Zhu

Graduate Student

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Recent News

Lecturer position in Computational Linguistics and/or Syntax

April 11, 2025
Tom McCoy gives talk at UMass Lowell

March 28, 2025
Tom McCoy and collaborators publish paper in PNAS

December 17, 2024
Research by Tom McCoy and collaborators receives coverage in The Atlantic

December 6, 2024

Related Events

Past Event: Monday Colloquium: Do the syntactic abilities of generative AI systems falsify fundamental principles of generative linguistics? (Paul Smolensky, Johns Hopkins University)

Mon Mar 31, 2025
Friday Lunch Talk: QPFest

Fri Mar 28, 2025
Past Event: Monday Colloquium: Using articulatory-informed neural network models to understand gradient phonetic variation (Kevin Tang, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf)

Mon Feb 17, 2025
Past Event: The 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 55)

Thu Oct 17, 2024

Labs & Reading Groups

Computational Linguistics at Yale (CLAY)

Bob Frank
Language Dynamics

A forum for reading and discussing papers pertaining to the dynamics of language and dynamic field theory (DFT).