Mats Rooth's research areas are in computational linguistics and semantics, more specifically: ellipsis, intonation, lexicon induction, parse forest algorithms, and statistical parsing.

John Hale's research investigates parsing from mathematical as well as cognitive perspectives.

Marisa Boston focuses her research on the computational modeling of human language processing. She is also actively involved in interdisciplinary work in other cognitive science fields such as computer science and psycholinguistics.

Zhong Chen's research focuses primarily on Computational Psycholinguistics, which builds computational models in the domain of human language processing. Working in this area helps people to better answer questions like "How can we understand language?" and "How to generate language?". He is most interested in exploring topics related to Chinese sentence processing modelling, which has not been systematically studied yet. His work uses statistical approaches such as machine learning, and he is also interested in topics such as multilingual information retrieval and machine translation.

Effi Georgala is working on Syntax and Computational Linguistics. Her dissertation topic is on the automatic classification of transitive verbs in English and German. She has also been working on the syntax of applicatives in Greek and other languages.

Kyle Grove is interested in the competence, processing, and computation of semantics, the syntax of the vP shell, causatives, unaccusatives and unergatives, and ergative languages. He has been working with John Hale on formalizing event structure for unaccusatives, unergatives, and caused unergatives, and the implications this could have for explicating the processing difficulty of some garden-path constructions. He has been classifying types of causation and transitivization, and how these types can be classified aspectually and thematically.

Jiwon Yun's research interests are semantics and computational linguistics. She is interested in mathematical properties of human language and computational applications of linguistic theories. She is also interested in corpus linguistics of East Asian languages including Korean, Japanese, and Chinese.

Tejaswini Deoskar, Ph.D. 2008, Chair: Mats Rooth

Dissertation topic: Corpus induction of lexicons with Inside-Outside and frequency transformations.

Yuping Zhou, Ph.D. 2008, Chair: Mats Rooth

Dissertation topic: Towards a dynamic, ambiguity-rich semantics - Inspired by a corpus study on the negation~quantifier scope ambiguity.