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natural language semantics, computational linguistics, natural language processing, computational semantics, information extraction, event extraction, event semantics, propositional attitude predicates, clause embedding, event structure
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Employment (2)

University of Rochester: Rochester, NY, US

2017-07 to present | Assistant Professor (Linguistics)
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Aaron Steven White

Johns Hopkins University: Baltimore, Maryland, US

2015-07 to 2017-06 | Postdoctoral Fellow (Science of Learning Institute)
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Aaron Steven White

Education and qualifications (2)

University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, Maryland, US

2010 to 2015 | PhD (Linguistics)
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Aaron Steven White

University of California, Santa Cruz: Santa Cruz, California, US

2006 to 2009 | BA (Linguistics)
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Aaron Steven White

Funding (3)

Collaborative Research: Computational Modeling of the Internal Structure of Events

2021-09-15 to 2025-02-28 | Grant
Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (Arlington, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: 2040831
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Aaron Steven White via DimensionsWizard

Collaborative Research: The MegaAttitude Project: Investigating selection and polysemy at the scale of the lexicon

2018-09-01 to 2022-02-28 | Grant
Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (Arlington, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: 1748969
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Aaron Steven White via DimensionsWizard

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Learning attitude verb meanings

2015-03-01 to 2016-08-31 | Grant
Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (Arlington, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: 1456013
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Aaron Steven White via DimensionsWizard

Works (39)

Lexicalization in the developing parser

Glossa Psycholinguistics
2022-03-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2767-0279
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Aaron Steven White

Decomposing and Recomposing Event Structure

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
2022-01-28 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2307-387X
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Aaron Steven White

Intensional Gaps: Relating veridicality, factivity, doxasticity, bouleticity, and neg-raising

Semantics and Linguistic Theory
2022-01-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2163-5951
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Aaron Steven White

Syntactic bootstrapping attitude verbs despite impoverished morphosyntax

Language Acquisition
2022-01-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1048-9223
Part of ISSN: 1532-7817
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Aaron Steven White

Montague Grammar Induction

Semantics and Linguistic Theory
2021 | Journal article
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Aaron Steven White

Joint Universal Syntactic and Semantic Parsing

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
2021-08-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2307-387X
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Aaron Steven White

On believing and hoping whether

Semantics and Pragmatics
2021-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1937-8912
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Aaron Steven White

The source of nonfinite temporal interpretation

Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society
2020 | Conference paper
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Aaron Steven White

Natural Language Inference with Mixed Effects

Proceedings of the Ninth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics
2020-12 | Conference paper
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https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.starsem-1.9

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Aaron Steven White

Frequency, acceptability, and selection: A case study of clause-embedding

Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
2020-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2397-1835
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Aaron Steven White

Reading the Manual: Event Extraction as Definition Comprehension

Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Structured Prediction for NLP
2020-11 | Conference paper
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https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.spnlp-1.9

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Aaron Steven White

Temporal Reasoning in Natural Language Inference

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020
2020-11 | Conference paper
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https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.findings-emnlp.363

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Aaron Steven White

Universal Decompositional Semantic Parsing

Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
2020-07 | Conference paper
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Aaron Steven White

The Universal Decompositional Semantics Dataset and Decomp Toolkit

Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
2020-05 | Conference paper
Part of ISBN: 979-10-95546-34-4
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Aaron Steven White

MegaAttitude/frequency-acceptability-selection: Analysis Code for "Frequency, Acceptability, and Selection" (v1.0.0)

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Aaron Steven White

The lexical and grammatical sources of neg-raising inferences

Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics
2020-01 | Journal article
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Aaron Steven White

Lexically triggered veridicality inferences

Handbook of Pragmatics
2019 | Book chapter
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Aaron Steven White

Fine-Grained Temporal Relation Extraction

Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
2019-07 | Conference paper
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https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1280

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Aaron Steven White

A Framework for Decoding Event-Related Potentials from Text

Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
2019-06 | Conference paper
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Aaron Steven White

Decomposing Generalization: Models of Generic, Habitual, and Episodic Statements

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
2019-03 | Journal article
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Aaron Steven White

Question agnosticism and change of state

Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21
2018 | Conference paper
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Aaron Steven White

Semantic Information and the Syntax of Propositional Attitude Verbs

Cognitive Science
2018 | Journal article
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Aaron Steven White

The labeling problem in syntactic bootstrapping: Main clause syntax in the acquisition of propositional attitude verbs

Semantics in Acquisition
2018 | Book chapter
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Aaron Steven White

The role of veridicality and factivity in clause selection

Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society
2018 | Conference paper
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Aaron Steven White

Collecting Diverse Natural Language Inference Problems for Sentence Representation Evaluation

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
2018-10 | Conference paper
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Aaron Steven White

Lexicosyntactic Inference in Neural Models

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
2018-10 | Conference paper
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Aaron Steven White

Neural Models of Factuality

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers)
2018-06 | Conference paper
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Aaron Steven White

Pseudogapping does not involve heavy shift

Proceedings of the 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
2017 | Conference paper
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Aaron Steven White

The contextual modulation of semantic information

2017 | Other
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Aaron Steven White

Inference is Everything: Recasting Semantic Resources into a Unified Evaluation Framework

Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
2017-11 | Conference paper
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https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/I17-1100

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Aaron Steven White

The role of incremental parsing in syntactically conditioned word learning

Cognitive Psychology
2017-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0010-0285
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Aaron Steven White

The Semantic Proto-Role Linking Model

Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers
2017-04 | Conference paper
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https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/E17-2015

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Aaron Steven White

Universal Decompositional Semantics on Universal Dependencies

Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
2016-11 | Conference paper
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Aaron Steven White

A computational model of S-selection

Semantics and Linguistic Theory
2016-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2163-5951
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Aaron Steven White

Information and Incrementality in Syntactic Bootstrapping

2015 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Aaron Steven White

On double access, cessation and parentheticality

Semantics and Linguistic Theory
2015-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2163-5951
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Aaron Steven White

An experimental investigation of partial control

Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
2014 | Conference paper
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Aaron Steven White

Discovering classes of attitude verbs using subcategorization frame distributions

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society
2014 | Conference paper
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Aaron Steven White

Factive-implicatives and modalized complements

Proceedings of the 44th annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society
2014 | Conference paper
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Aaron Steven White