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David Beaver is a Professor and the Director of the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on linguistic meaning, particularly the subfields of semantics and pragmatics. He employs computational studies of large text corpora, combined with experimental work and theoretical modeling using logic and statistics. His main empirical interests include presupposition, anaphora, topic/focus, and the semantics of temporal events. Additionally, he works on automatic extraction of psychological and social features from dialogue text, engaging broader themes in cognitive science.
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