Laboratory for Language, Computation, and Cognition (L2C2)
Co-Directors: Mitch Marcus and Charles Yang
We are a group of computational linguistics researchers that seek to blend the boundaries between the science of language and natural language processing. We are convinced that human language follow strong cognitive constraints, some of which are unique to language while others are quite possibly domain general, and that such constraints can fruitfully studied with computational means and shamelessly exploits in engineering applications.
A major focus of our work in the past ten years or so has been language learning. We believe the unique conditions of child language acquisition, an unsupervised learning situation with very modest amount of data, provides important clues on why human languages are the way they are, and how linguistic and cognitive constraints may be integrated into machine learning approaches.
Current Members
Ryan Budnick: Language change, computational linguistics
Spencer Caplan: Computational linguistics, language acquisition
Andrea Ceolin: Computational linguistics, historical linguistics
Aletheia Cui: Phonetics, historical linguistics, language acquisition
Ava Irani: Language acquisition, syntax, sign language
Jordan Kodner: Computational linguistics, language acquisition, historical linguistics
Caitlin Richter: Historical linguistics
Hongzhi Xu: Computational linguistics, morphology, Chinese linguistics
Recent Collaborators
Alumni