Alex Lascarides

Alex Lascarides FRSE
Born	Alexandra Lascarides
Alma mater	Durham University (BSc) University of Edinburgh (MSc, PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Computational Linguistics Semantics Pragmatics [1]
Institutions	University of Edinburgh
Thesis	A formal semantic analysis of the progressive  (1988)
Doctoral advisor	Barry Richards [2]
Website	homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/alex

Alexandra Lascarides is a linguist and chair in Semantics in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research investigates computational linguistics and artificial intelligence. ^[1]

Early life and education

Lascarides graduated from Durham University where she was a student of Van Mildert College, Durham with a first-class degree in mathematics. ^{[3] [4]} 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. ^[2]

Research and career

Her research investigates 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. ^[5]

Select publications

Lascarides’ publications ^{[1] [6]} include:

• 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.

Awards and honours

In 2023 she was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE). ^[7]

References

1. Alex Lascarides publications indexed by Google Scholar
2. Lascarides, Alexandra (1988). Formal semantic analysis of the progressive. ed.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl: 1842/6736 . OCLC   21008059. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.234152.
3. "Results of Final Examinations June 1984". University of Durham Gazette 1983/84. Vol. II (Combined Series). 1984. p. 96. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
4. "Alex Lascarides". University of Edinburgh Research Explorer. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
5. "Logics of Conversation | Computational linguistics" . Cambridge University Press. June 2015. ISBN   9780521659512 . Retrieved 2023-04-29.
6. Alex Lascarides at DBLP Bibliography Server
7. "Professor Alex Lascarides". rse.org.uk. Royal Society of Edinburgh . Retrieved 2023-04-29.