Gemma Boleda, ICREA Research Professor in the Department of Translation and Language Sciences of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain); co-director of the Computational Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (COLT) research group. You can reach me via email at firstname.lastname@upf.edu or snail mail here.

I want to understand how language works; in particular, how humans convey meaning through language, how the formal properties of language support communication, and how languages are shaped by both cognitive and communicative factors. I study these dynamics in a range of domains and phenomena, with special emphasis on the lexicon (vocabulary), and I investigate which aspects are universal across languages, and what governs variation. My team and I work with a cross-disciplinary approach that integrates methodologies from Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Science. Our approach requires large amounts of data, and part of our work involves gathering linguistic data on a large scale.

I teach Computational Semantics in the Master's in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.

I suffer from a psychiatric illness, and I didn't dare put this on my webpage until I got a permanent position.

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