Rafael Fernando
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Born in the Philippines, educated mainly in California, and subsequently employed at various institutions in Europe and the States.
Research Interest
Applications of logic to natural and programming languages, and related cognitive issues. Knowledge representation and reasoning with contexts. Non-monotonic reasoning, probabilistic and modal methods. Discourse: anaphora, underspecification, ambiguity and disambiguation. Computational linguistics: formal semantics and pragmatics. RESEARCH GROUP: Artificial Intelligence Group (AIG), Computational Linguistics Group (CLG)
Publications
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Tim Fernando, Regular relations for temporal propositions, Natural Language Engineering, 17, (2), 2011, p163 - 184,
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Tim Fernando, Constructing situations and time, Journal of Philosophical Logic, 40, (3), 2011, p371 - 396,
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Tim Fernando, Strings over intervals, Proceedings, TextInfer 2011, Workshop on Textual Entailment, EMNLP 2011, Edinburgh, July 30, 2011, 2011, pp50 - 58,
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Tim Fernando, Finite-state representations embodying temporal relations , Proceedings, 9th International Workshop on Finite State Methods and Natural Language Processing, Blois, France, July 12-15, 2011, 2011, pp12 - 20
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Situation types subatomically in, editor(s)Staffan Larsson, Lars Borin , From quantification to conversation, London, College Publications, 2012, pp129 - 144,
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Compositionality in discourse from a logical perspective in, editor(s)Markus Werning and Wolfram Hinzen and Edouard Machery , The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp279 - 304
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Steedmans temporality proposal and finite automata in, editor(s)Maria Aloni et al , Logic, Language and Meaning, Berlin, Springer Verlag, 2012, pp301 - 310,
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Ruth Kempson, Tim Fernando, Nicholas Asher (editors), Philosophy of Linguistics, 1, Oxford, Elsevier, 2012, vii - 574pp, Book,
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Tim Fernando, Dowtys aspect hypothesis segmented, 19th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, December 18-20, 2013, University of Amsterdam, 2013, pp107 - 114
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Tim Fernando, Finite State Methods and Description Logic, 11th International Conference on Finite State Methods and Natural Language Processing, St Andrews, Scotland, July 15-17, 2013, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013, pp63 - 71