MATS DAHLLÖF
Universitetslektor i datorlingvistik, fil. dr.(Senior lecturer in computational linguistics, Ph. D.)
Ställföreträdande prefekt (Vice-head of Department).
Affiliation and postal address: Dept of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, Box 635, SE-751 26 UPPSALA, Sweden. Office: Engelska parken Humanistiskt centrum, Villavägen 4 (Hus 9), Uppsala, room 9-2034. E-mail: matsd at stp.lingfil.uu.se. Telephone: + 46 18 471 14 15.
Academic background
M.A. in in computational linguistics, Göteborg University, 1989. Ph. D. studies at the Dept of Linguistics, Göteborg University, 1989-1994. Ph. D. in general linguistics (allmän språkvetenskap), 1994. Teaching in general and computational linguistics, 1994-1997. Director of studies for the Göteborg programme in computational linguistics 1995-1997. Senior lecturer in computational linguistics (universitetslektor i datorlingvistik) at the Dept of Linguistics, Uppsala University from 1997.
Research
I am currently working on unsupervised induction of morphological and dependency-based syntactic structure from large corpora.
I have also worked on Token Dependency Semantics (take a look here).
Publications
2003, “An Annotational Approach to Compositional Semantics”, in J. Nivre and E. Hinrichs (eds.) Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2003), Växjö University Press, 33-44. [pdf]
2003, Two Reports on Computational Syntax and Semantics (RUUL vol. 36) (“Prolog-Embedding Typed Feature Structure Grammar (PETFSG-II.2) and Grammar Tool”, “An Implementation of Token Dependency Semantics for a Fragment of English”), Dept of Linguistics. [ps - pdf]
2002, “Token Dependency Semantics and the Paratactic Analysis of Intensional Constructions”, Journal of Semantics 19, 333-368.
1999, Three Papers on Computational Syntax and Semantics (RUUL vol. 34) (“Prolog-embedding feature structure grammar”, “Implementing token-based minimal recursion semantics”, “Predicate-functor logic”), Uppsala University, Dept of Linguistics. [ps - pdf]
1999, Språklig betydelse. En introduktion till semantik och pragmatik, Lund: Studentlitteratur. [pdf]
1995, On the Semantics of Propositional Attitude Reports (dissertation 1994, revised 1995, Gothenburg Monographs in Linguistics, vol. 13), Göteborg University, Dept of Linguistics (210 p.). [ps - pdf]
1994, “Språklig betydelse - vad är det”, i Från runor till Modesty Blaise, Humanistdag-boken nr 7, Göteborg university, 57-63.
1992, “Mats Dahllöf svarar Joachim Israel”, Göteborgs universitets tidning, nr 5 11 Sept 1992, 19-20.
1992, “Hur uttrycks kunskap?”, Göteborgs universitets tidning, nr 4 15 Maj 1992, 16-17.
1992, “En variant av Lambek-kalkyl som tillåter härledning av den semantiska operation som svarar mot en kategorialgrammatisk regel”, Gothenburg Papers in Theoretical Linguistics, Nr. S18, Göteborg University, Dept of Linguistics.
1989, “En lexikonorienterad parser för svenska” (M.A. thesis), Göteborg University, Dept of Computational Linguistics. [html - ps - pdf]
Co-authored
1999, Lars Borin and Mats Dahllöf, A Corpus-Based Grammar Tutor for Education in Language and Speech Technology, i Proceedings of the EACL '99 Post-Conference Workshop on Computer and Internet Supported Education in Language and Speech Technology, Bergen. [ps - pdf]
1989, Anna Sågvall Hein, Mats Dahllöf and Sofia Hörmander, Studies of Grammars, Formalisms, and Parsing, a Report from the Project Grammar Models for Natural Language Processing (Rapporter från Språkdata, nr 25), Göteborg University, Dept of Computational Linguistics.
Other writings
“Akademiska uppsatsers uppbyggnad” (teaching material, 2009). [pdf]
“Token-based minimal recursion semantics” (talk given at the 13th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, NoDaLiDa '01, May 22, 2001, in Uppsala) [pdf]