The ILST is proud to co-sponsor the symposium, The Past, Present and Future of Formal Semantics, in honor of Barbara Partee, the 2021 laureate of the Benjamin Franklin Medal in computer and cognitive science, for her foundational contributions that synthesize insights...

The first Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) conference, co-organized by ILST faculty Florian Schwarz and Anna Papafragou, was hosted virtually by the University of Pennsylvania, September 16-18, 2020. The schedule is available here. The conference is dedicated...

On Friday, March 6th, Jami Fisher (Penn), Julie Hochgesang (Gallaudet), and Meredith Tamminga (Penn) will be hosting a workshop at Penn called “Building Connections with ASL Corpora.”  Please join them for a series of talks about the linguistics and documentation of American Sign Language (ASL) that morning. The talk session will feature invited and local sign language researchers and will be followed by a pizza lunch. The presentations will be given in a mix of ASL and English and will also be interpreted.  This event is open to the public, with no advance registration necessary. Thanks to MindCORE’s Integrated Language Sciences and Technology (ILST) initiative for supporting the workshop!