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Curriculum Vitae

See my full CV in PDF form.

Contact

Email: kgr at jhu dot edu or rawlins at gmail dot com

Office: Krieger Hall 149

Mailing address:
Kyle Rawlins
Cognitive Science Department
Johns Hopkins University
Room 237 Krieger Hall
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD, 21218

Research interests & publications

Areas of interest: Semantics, pragmatics, computational modeling, philosophy of language, computational semantics, experimental linguistics, crowdsourcing, syntax.

Empirical domains: interrogatives/questions, question-answer discourse, clause-embedding, conditionals, adverbs and modification, lexical semantics, definiteness.

Srinivas & Rawlins 2022; Srinivas & Rawlins 2021; Srinivas, Rawlins & Heller 2021; Talmina & Rawlins 2021; White & Rawlins 2020; Ebner et al. 2020; Rawlins 2020; Bledin & Rawlins 2020; Bledin & Rawlins 2019; Frana & Rawlins 2019; Kim et al. 2019; Rissman, Rawlins & Landau 2019; White et al. 2019

Most recent publications (see all):

  1. Srinivas, Sadhwi & Kyle Rawlins. 2022. Anaphoric variability in Kannada bare nominals. In Ishani Guha, Sana Kidwai, & Martha Schwarz (eds.), Proceedings of (F)ASAL-10, Download: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/jsal/index.php/fasal/article/view/245
  2. Srinivas, Sadhwi & Kyle Rawlins. 2021. On the Indefinite Readings of Kannada Bare Nominals. In D. K. E. Reisinger & Marianne Huijsmans (eds.), Proceedings of the 37th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 214–225. Download: http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/37/abstract3532.html
  3. Srinivas, Sadhwi, Kyle Rawlins & Daphna Heller. 2021. Asymmetries between uniqueness and familiarity in the semantics of definite descriptions. In Joseph Rhyne, Kaelyn Lamp, Nicole Dreier, & and Chloe Kwon (eds.), Proceedings of SALT 30, 694–713. DOI: 10.3765/salt.v30i0.4854
  4. Talmina, Natalia & Kyle Rawlins. 2021. Evidential meaning of English clause-embedding verbs. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Download: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/64r2h2g3
  5. White, Aaron Steven & Kyle Rawlins. 2020. Frequency, acceptability, and selection: a case study of clause-embedding. Glossa 5(1). 1–41. DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.1001
  6. Ebner, Seth, Patrick Xia, Ryan Culkin, Kyle Rawlins & Benjamin Van Durme. 2020. Multi-sentence argument linking. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 8057–8077. DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.718
  7. Rawlins, Kyle. 2020. Biscuit conditionals. In Semantics Companion, Blackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781118788516.sem101
  8. Bledin, Justin & Kyle Rawlins. 2020. Resistance and Resolution in Discourse. Journal of Semantics 37(1). 43–82. DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffz015
  9. Bledin, Justin & Kyle Rawlins. 2019. What if? Semantics & Pragmatics 12(14). DOI: 10.3765/sp.12.14
  10. Frana, Ilaria & Kyle Rawlins. 2019. Attitudes in discourse: Italian polar questions and the particle ‘mica.’ Semantics & Pragmatics 12(16). DOI: 10.3765/sp.12.16
  11. Kim, Najoung, Kyle Rawlins, Benjamin Van Durme & Paul Smolensky. 2019. Predicting argumenthood of English preposition phrases. In Proceedings of the 33rd AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2019), 6578–6585. DOI: 10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33016578
  12. Rissman, Lilia, Kyle Rawlins & Barbara Landau. 2019. Event Participants and Verbal Semantics: Non-Discrete Structure in English, Spanish and Mandarin. In A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 960–966. Download: https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2019/papers/0180/index.html
  13. White, Aaron Steven, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Siddharth Vashishtha, Venkata Govindarajan, Dee Ann Reisinger, Tim Vieira, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Sheng Zhang, Francis Ferraro, Rachel Rudinger, Kyle Rawlins & Benjamin Van Durme. 2019. The Universal Decompositional Semantics Dataset and Decomp Toolkit. Download: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13851

See this page or my PDF CV for a full publications list, as well as the Research pages for a thematic presentation.

Teaching

I regularly teach classes on theoretical and computational semantics, mathematical foundations of cognitive science, and language & advertising. I also teach graduate seminars in special topics related to semantics, pragmatics, and computational semantics.

Spring 2022: Graduate seminar on compositionality.

Fall 2022: First year undergraduate seminar Language, Advertising, and Propaganda. Graduate seminar TBD.

Past: Go here

Background

2017- : Associate Professor, JHU Cognitive Science
2010-2017: Assistant Professor, JHU Cognitive Science
2008-2010: Visiting Assistant Professor, JHU Cognitive Science
2003-2008: PhD in Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz
1998-2003: BA/BS in Linguistics and Computer Science at UMass Amherst

Other

I have been the faculty advisor of the JHU Go Club (facebook group), which is currently dormant.

Hobbies: sometimes I create music; see my music website and soundcloud page. I also sometimes participate in the development of the open source game DCSS, where I am a devteam member since 2017.