Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG)
University of Groningen
Postbus 716
9700 AS Groningen
Netherlands
phone: +31 (0)50 363 6642
email: Johan.Bos@rug.nl
office: Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26, rm 1311.418
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Current Activities
- PC chair of ESSLLI 2013
- Tutorial chair of ACL 2013
- President of SIGSEM
Research Interests
- Computational Semantics, Discourse Semantics, Lexical Semantics
- Formal Semantics, Statistical Semantics, Applied Semantics
Key Publications
J. Bos (2003): Implementing the Binding and Accommodation Theory for Anaphora Resolution and Presupposition Projection. Computational Linguistics 29(2): 179–210. [PDF] [BibTeX]
J. Bos (2004): Computational Semantics in Discourse: Underspecification, Resolution, and Inference. Journal of Logic, Language and Information 13(2): 139–157. [BibTeX]
J. Bos (2009): Applying automated deduction to natural language understanding. Journal of Applied Logic 7(1): 100–112. [PDF] [BibTeX]
J. Bos, J. Spenader (2011): An annotated corpus for the analysis of VP ellipsis. Language Resources and Evaluation 45(4): 463–494. [PDF] [BibTeX]
J. Bos, T. Oka (2007): Meaningful Conversation with Mobile Robots. Advanced Robotics 21(2): 209–232. [PDF] [BibTeX]
Books
Research Software
- Curt, and other software of the Representation and Inference book
- Boxer, wide-coverage semantic interpretation
- Wordrobe, linguistic games with a purpose
Annotated Corpora
Teaching
- I teach in the Bachelor's and Master's programmes of Information Science.
- I will teach a course at the LOT summerschool this year
- I gave tutorials at EKAW-2008 (Catania), and COLING/ACL-1998 (Montreal).
- I have taught courses at ESSLLI-2011 (Ljubljana), Linguistic Institute 2007 (Stanford), ESSLLI-2006 (Malaga), EURON 2003 (Hamburg), NASSLLI-2003 (Bloomington), ESSLLI-2001 (Helsinki), EUROLAN-1999 (Iasi), and ESSLLI-1997 (Aix-en-Provence).