Semantics etc.

[I know that this blog is being frustratingly silent these days. I'll have to figure out what to do about that, but I'm too busy even for that. In the mean time, I'll try to post a few snippets.]

The 2007 “Lifetime Achievement Award” of the Association for Computational Linguistics went to Lauri Karttunen. There is a video of the award ceremony (the award was announced by ACL Chair Mark Steedman) and Lauri’s acceptance speech. The written version of the talk appeared in the December 2007 issue of Computational Linguistics:

Karttunen, Lauri. 2007. Word play. Computational Linguistics 33(4): 443–467. doi:10.1162/coli.2007.33.4.443.

Lauri has posted the pdf of the article on his website. It’s a delightful read, somewhat along the lines of Barbara Partee’s reminiscences. Highly recommended.