Shane Steinert-Threlkeld

Assistant Professor at UW Professional & Continuing Education

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  • UW Professional & Continuing Education

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Biography

UW Professional & Continuing Education

Research

Journal Articles

Referential and General Calls in Primate Semantics Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Philippe Schlenker, Emmanuel Chemla, Linguistics and Philosophy, forthcoming.

Ease of Learning Explains Semantic Universals Shane Steinert-Threlkeld and Jakub Szymanik, Cognition, vol 195, no. XX, pp. XX.

Semantic Expressivism for Epistemic Modals Peter Hawke and Shane Steinert-Threlkeld (alphabetical order), Linguistics and Philosophy, forthcoming.

Towards the Emergence of Non-trivial Compositionality Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Philosophy of Science, forthcoming.

An Explanation of the Veridical Uniformity Universal Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Journal of Semantics, vol 37 no 1, pp. 129-144.

Learnability and Semantic Universals Shane Steinert-Threlkeld and Jakub Szymanik, Semantics & Pragmatics, vol 12 issue 4.

Informational Dynamics of Epistemic Possibility Modals Peter Hawke and Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Synthese, vol 195 no 10, pp. 4309-4342.

Compositional Signaling in a Complex World Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Journal of Logic, Language, and Information, vol 25 no 3, pp. 379-397.

Compositionality and Competition in Monkey Alert Calls Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Theoretical Linguistics, vol 42 no 1-2, pp. 159-171.

Some Properties of Iterated Languages Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Journal of Logic, Language, and Information, vol 25 no 2, pp. 191-213.

Iterating semantic automata Shane Steinert-Threlkeld and Thomas F. Icard, III., Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 36 no 2, pp. 151-173.

ADC Method of Proof Search in Intuitionistic Propositional Natural Deduction Grigori Mints and Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Journal of Logic and Computation, vol 26 no 1, pp. 395-408.

Ontological Labels for Automated Location of Anatomical Shape Differences Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Siamak Ardekani, Jose L.V. Mejino, Landon Todd Detwiler, James F. Brinkley, Michael Halle, Ron Kikinis, Raimond L. Winslow, Michael I. Miller, and J. Tilak Ratnanather, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, vol 45 no 3, pp. 522-527.

Conference Proceedings

Linguistically-Informed Transformations (LIT): A Method for Automatically Generating Contrast Sets Chuanrong Li, Lin Shengshuo, Zeyu Liu, Xinyi Wu, Xuhui Zhou, and Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, BlackboxNLP

On the Spontaneous Emergence of Discrete and Compositional Singals Nur Lan, Emmanuel Chemla, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

Complexity/informativeness trade-off in the domain of indefinite pronouns Milica Denic, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld Jakub Szymanik, Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 30)

Most, but not more than half is proportion-dependent and sensitive to individual differences Sonia Ramotowska, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Leendert van Maanen, Jakub Szymanik, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB 24)

Quantifiers in natural language optimize the simplicity/informativeness trade-off Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Proceedings of the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium, eds. Julian J. Schlöder, Dean McHugh & Floris Roelofsen, pp. 513-522.

The emergence of monotone quantifiers via iterated learning Fausto Carcassi, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld (co-first), and Jakub Szymanik, Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2019).

Complexity and learnability in the explanation of semantic universals Iris van de Pol, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, and Jakub Szymanik, Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2019).

Neural Models of the Psychosemantics of "Most" Lewis O'Sullivan and Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL2019).

Paying Attention to Function Words Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Emergent Communication Workshop @ 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2018).

Some of them can Be Guessed! Exploring the Effect of Linguistic Context in Predicting Quantifiers Sandro Pezzelle, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Raffaella Bernardi, Jakub Szymanik, Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018).

Uniform Definability in Assertability Semantics Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium, eds. Alexandre Cremers, Thom van Gessel, and Floris Roelofsen, pp. 445-454.

Alternative Representations in Formal Semantics: A case study of quantifiers Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Gert-Jan Munneke, and Jakub Szymanik, Proceedings of the 20th Amsterdam Colloquium, eds. Thomas Brochhagen, Floris Roelofsen, and Nadine Thelier, pp. 368-379.

Informational Dynamics of `Might' Assertions Peter Hawke and Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Proceedings of Logic, Rationality, and Interaction (LORI-V), eds. Wiebe van der Hoek, Wes Holliday, and Wen-fang Wang, pp. 143-155.

Learning to Use Function Words in Signaling Games Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Proceedings of Information Dynamics in Artificial Societies (IDAS-14), eds. Emiliano Lorini and Laurent Perrussel.

On the Decidability of Iterated Languages Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Proceedings of Philosophy, Mathematics, Linguistics: Aspects of Interaction (PhML2014), ed. Oleg Prosorov, pp. 215-224.

Automata and Complexity in Multiple-Quantifier Sentence Verification Jakub Szymanik, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Marcin Zajenkowski, and Thomas F. Icard, III., Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM).

Ontological Labels for Automated Location of Left-Ventricular Remodeling Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Siamak Ardekani, Jose L.V. Mejino, Landon Todd Detwiler, James F. Brinkley, Michael Halle, Ron Kikinis, Raimond L. Winslow, Michael I. Miller, and J. Tilak Ratnanather, Proceedings of 2011 Fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, pp. 572- 573.

Other Publications

Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, "Communication and Computation: New Questions About Compositionality", PhD Dissertation, Stanford University (reprinted as ILLC Dissertation Series 2017-05).

Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, "Lambda Calculi", Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Shane Steinert-Threlkeld and J Tilak Ratnanather, "Open standards, web-based mathlets: making interactive tutorials using the html5 canvas element, Loci/JOMA.

Preprints

Learning Compositional Negation in Populations of Roth-Erev and Neural Agents Graham Todd, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Christopher Potts

The emergence of monotone quantifiers via iterated learning Fausto Carcassi, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Jakub Szymanik

A Masked Segmental Language Model for Unsupervised Natural Language Segmentation C.M. Downey, Fei Xia, Gina-Anne Levow, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld

Bilingual alignment transfers to multilingual alignment for unsupervised parallel text mining Chih-chan Tien, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld

A multilabel approach to morphosyntactic probing Naomi Tachikawa Shapiro, Amandalynne Paullada, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld

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