Yoad Winter's work studies the communicative import of natural language, especially logical meaning and its cognitive aspects. He has worked on a variety of topics in theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and natural language processing. Until 2009 Winter was an associate professor of Computer Science at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. In 2010-2014 he was an associate professor at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视, and the leader of the NWO VICI program 鈥淏etween language and common sense鈥�, which integrates knowledge from cognitive science with state-of-the-art research in formal semantics. In 2014 he was appointed professor in computational semantics and AI at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视. Winter is in the editorial boards of some principal linguistic journals, including Linguistics and Philosophy, Linguistic Inquiry, Journal of Semantics and Semantics and Pragmatics. Between 2016 and 2023, Winter led the ERC Advanced Project "Forests and Trees: the Formal Semantics of Collective Categorization (ROCKY)". Since 2016, he has led the NWO Free Competition project "When language has a beat".
At Utrecht 木瓜福利影视, Winter lectures in the Linguistics program (BA and MA) and the Artificial Intelligence program (BA and MSc). He is a member of the at the Institute for Language Sciences and of the focus area Human-Centered AI.
Selected publications :
Y. Winter: Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics. MIT Press, 2001.
Y. Winter: Elements of Formal Semantics. To appear in Edinburgh 木瓜福利影视 Press, 2016.
J. Zwarts and Y. Winter: "Vector space semantics: a modeltheoretic analysis of locative prepositions", Journal of Logic, Language and Information 9 (2000): 171-213.
R. Bekkerman, R. El-Yaniv, N. Tishby and Y. Winter: 鈥淒istributional Word Clusters vs. Words for Text Categorization鈥�. Journal of Machine Learning Research 3 (2003):1183-1208.
Y. Winter: 鈥淥n the grammar of a Senegalese Drum Language鈥�, Language, 9.3 (2014): 644-668.
For further details see Yoad Winter's webpage: http://www.phil.uu.nl/~yoad
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