Mats Rooth
Professor, Director of Computational Linguistics Lab
(PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1985)
Department of Linguistics
203A Morrill Hall
mr249@cornell.edu 607 255-0716
Additional affiliation: Faculty of Computing and Information
Research
I do research in two areas, computational linguistics and natural language semantics. I have worked extensively on mixed symbolic/probabilistic models of syntax and the lexicon, on contrastive intonation (what is called focus), and on related phenomena such as ellipsis and presupposition. In addition to these, I am currently working on finite state optimality theory and web harvesting of intonational data.
Selected Publications
Rooth, Mats (2010). Second occurrence focus and relativized stress F . In Fery, Caroline and Zimmermann, Malte (eds.) Information Stucture: Theoretical, Typological, and Experimental Perspectives. Oxford University Press. Preprint doi 1813/13092.
Deoskar, Tejaswini, Mats Rooth, and Khalil Sima'an, Khalil (2009). Smoothing fine-grained PCFG lexicons. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of Parsing Technologies. (pdf)
Howell, Jonathan and Mats Rooth (2009). Web harvest of minimal intonational pairs. Web as Corpus 5, September 2009. doi 1813/13079.
Howell, Jonathan and Mats Rooth (2009). A corpus search methodology for focus realization. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Volume 125, Issue 4, pp. 2573-2573. Abstract and poster at doi 1813/13093 .
Rooth, Mats (2008). Notions of Focus Anaphoricity. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, Vol. 55 (3–4), pp. 277–285 (2008). doi 10.1556/ALing.55.2008.3-4.3. (pdf)
Deoskar, Tejaswini and Mats Rooth (2008). Induction of Treebank-Aligned Lexical Resources. Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Marrakech. Morocco. (pdf)