Prof. Dr. Roni Katzir from Tel Aviv University is currently a visiting scholar at the ZAS, funded by the prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He will be collaborating primarily in the research area “Semantics and Pragmatics.”
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation annually awards the prize to internationally recognized researchers from abroad in recognition of their outstanding scientific achievements. The prize money of €60,000 enables the award winner to carry out self-chosen research projects at a scientific institution in Germany in cooperation with local colleagues.
Katzir earned his PhD from MIT in 2008 and subsequently taught at Cornell University before joining Tel Aviv University in 2010. He currently heads the Computational Linguistics Lab at Tel Aviv University as well as the undergraduate program in Computational Linguistics there.
Roni Katzir’s research spans computational linguistics, with a focus on modeling grammar learning, and theoretical linguistics, where he investigates alternative-sensitive processes in semantics and pragmatics.
On Thursday, October 23, Prof. Dr. Katzir will give a public lecture on the topic of "Gaps and doublets, rational learning, and a knowledge norm on forms" as part of his stay. More details can be found here: https://www.leibniz-zas.de/de/das-zas/veranstaltungen/details/events/7956-bessel-award-lecture-gaps-and-doublets-rational-learning-and-a-knowledge-norm-on-forms