Mark Steedman's Home Page

Address:
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh
Informatics Forum 415
10 Crichton Street
Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Scotland, United Kingdom
Email: If you aren't a robot, and/or you are equipped with a parser that can handle long-range dependencies, you will be able to email me at an address formed by concatenating my surname, the "at" thingy, the subject that the address above says I'm in the school of, and the string dot ed dot ac dot uk, all in lower case.
Tel: +44 (131) 650 4631
FAX: +44 (131) 650 6626
My calendar::
Autumn Semester 2008 I have classes at 11:00 and 2:00 Tuesday and Friday, (my 2008/9 courses are all this semester). I tend to be in seminars 4-6 Tuesdays and Thursdays, and in committee meetings 2-4 Wednesdays. Most other times I'm at my desk.
Office Hour::
My office hour for students is 10:00 Monday during the Semester.

Mark Steedman is Professor of Cognitive Science in the School of Informatics, working in Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Science, on Generation of Meaningful Intonation for Speech by Artificial Agents, Animated Conversation, The Communicative Use of Gesture, Tense and Aspect, and Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG). Also interested in Computational Musical Analysis and Combinatory Logic.

Affiliated to the Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS) within the Division of Informatics, and to the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) and the interdisciplinary Human Communications Research Center (HCRC).
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I sometimes teach or co-teach Informatics 2A, Introduction to Cognitive Science, and Advanced Natural Language Processing.

Here are some Recent Papers and a CV.
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I'm also an adjunct professor in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, which looks like this, right now. My home page there is here The weather there is like this today.
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Here is something really useful---get yourself in tune

In Memoriam: Christopher Longuet-Higgins (1923--2004) ps.gz pdf
Mark Steedman