I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. My main interest lies in the nature of semantic knowledge that humans use to understand language, with a particular focus on polysemy and lexical ambiguity. Currently, I am investigating various aspects of ambiguous words using computational models. In addition, I explore issues in the philosophy of science and meta-science, particularly the problem of generalization from samples of experimental stimuli to their populations as described in theoretical accounts.
During my PhD in philosophy, I was initially trained as a philosopher of language and worked in formal semantics and pragmatics. Over time, I also became involved in psycholinguistics and computational linguistics and subsequently completed my first postdoc in psychology at the University of Toronto Scarborough. This interdisciplinary experience enabled me to examine semantics from multiple perspectives. As a result, I aim to bridge these fields by using behavioral experiments and computational modeling to test different theories of semantics and pragmatics, while also integrating experimental and computational findings into more philosophically informed work. My long-term goal is to leverage my interdisciplinary background to advance a scientific understanding of language and cognition, grounded in contemporary philosophical theorizing, and to foster collaboration across different areas of language research.
Areas of specialization: Semantics and Pragmatics in Philosophy of Language, Psycholinguistics, Computational Linguistics