Programme Committee

Simon Dobnik (Co-chair)

Simon is completing his DPhil thesis in computational linguistics. His work involves using machine learning techniques "to teach" mobile robots referential expressions about space. His other interests include natural language syntax and semantics.

Miltiadis Kokkonidis (Co-chair)

Miltiadis is in his second year of a DPhil course at Oxford. His prime area of investigation is computational semantics and its interfaces with syntax and pragmatics.
His work proposes first-order type-systems for dealing with different aspects of language and ultimately demonstrates how logic can benefit the study of language in
a wide range of linguistic inquiry.

Cristina Psomadakis (Secretary)

Cristina Psomadakis is in the process of completing her MSt in Linguistics. Her interests include sociolinguistics, bilinguism and language & identity. Currently, she is researching metaphors in Modern Greek, although she is also looking at Khmer and Spanish.

Sandra Kotzor

Sandra is in the first year of her DPhil at Oxford and her main areas of interest are lexical semantics and pragmatics as well as cognitive semantics. She is currently looking at antonymy and its definitions and is attempting to determine what it might be that makes antonymy such a fundamental sense relation.

Olivia Lam

Olivia is in her second year of DPhil at Oxford. Her research interest lies
mainly in syntax. Currently, she is investigating double object constructions
and the object functions within the LFG framework.

Jakob Leimgruber

Jakob is in his second year at Oxford, where he is researching for a DPhil on variation in Singapore English. His areas of interest include sociolinguistics and contact linguistics, and his work currently tries to find a reliable way to defining this variety's sociolinguistic typological status.

Anastassia Loukina

Anastassia is finishing her DPhil at Oxford. She is working on the phonetics and phonology of Modern Greek. Her work is based on experimental analysis of phonetic variation in several regional varieties. She is interested in interfaces between phonetics and phonology, language variation and change and sociolinguistics.

Rada Mihalcea

Rada's main research interests are in computational linguistics. In particular, she works on topics in lexical semantics, graph-based algorithms for text processing, multilingual language processing, and various linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects related to understanding humour.

Sarah Ogilvie

Sarah is in the first year of her DPhil at Oxford and her main areas of interest are descriptive linguistics (especially the Aboriginal languages of Australia), World Englishes, and lexicography.

Ekaterina "Katya" Samoylova

Katya is in the last year of her DPhil in experimental phonetics. Her works examines whispered speech and particular features that characterise production, acoustics and perception of whispered vowels in English. Her other interests include acoustic phonetics, phonology and typology.

Loukia Taxitari

Loukia is in her third year of her DPhil in Experimental Psychology. For the past three years, she has been a member of the Oxford Babylab, where language development is being explored by testing babies in their first years of life. Loukia focuses on semantic development, and more precisely the formation of linguistic categories in early word learning.

Lindsay Weichel

Lindsay Weichel is in the first year of her DPhil at Oxford. Her interests include aboriginal languages of the Americas, linguistic typology, language universals, morphology, and grammatical description. She is currently researching the universality of lexical categories and the demarcation of lexical categories in Amerindian languages.