About CoLa Lab
The Computation of Language Laboratory investigates the complex system we call human language, focusing on information acquisition and extraction. Under the direction of
Dr. Lisa Pearl, members of CoLa Lab attempt to answer questions such as these:
- How do children acquire the information about language that they do from the data that they have?
- How do people acquire the information about the world that they do from the language data that they have? Can machines be made to do it as well?
The main technique of investigation we use is empirically-grounded computational modeling, drawing on constraints from realistic examples of human language and what we know about how humans process language information. Complementary techniques include psycholinguistic methodologies to assess knowledge in children and adults, and human computation methodologies for gathering realistic samples of language use and interpretation.
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