About

This site contains materials for a course on Probabilistic dynamic semantics given by Julian Grove and Aaron Steven White at NASSLLI 2025, held at the University of Washington from June 23–27, 2025.

About the instructors

Julian Grove is a postdoctoral researcher in Linguistics at the University of Rochester and a member of the Formal and Computational Semantics lab (FACTS.lab). He is interested in combining computational tools from Bayesian data analysis and programming language theory and bringing them to semantics. He will be an Assistant Professor of Semantics and Computational Linguistics at the University of Florida starting in August, 2025.

Aaron Steven White is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science at the University of Rochester, where he directs the Center for Language Sciences and the Formal and Computational Semantics lab (FACTS.lab). His research investigates the relationship between linguistic expressions and conceptual categories that undergird the human ability to convey information about possible past, present, and future configurations of things in the world.

About the site

The site itself is built using Quarto. The source files for this site are available on github at juliangrove/pds-2025.

Acknowledgments

The materials for Module 3 were developed partly in collaboration with Helena Aparicio.

License

Probabilistic dynamic semantics by Julian Grove and Aaron Steven White is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Based on work at https://github.com/juliangrove/pds-2025.

--- title: "About" --- This site contains materials for [a course](https://juliangrove.github.io/nasslli-2025/) on *Probabilistic dynamic semantics* given by [Julian Grove](http://juliangrove.github.io/) and [Aaron Steven White](http://aaronstevenwhite.io/) at [NASSLLI 2025](https://nasslli25.shane.st/), held at the [University of Washington](https://www.washington.edu/) from June 23–27, 2025. ## About the instructors [Julian Grove](http://juliangrove.github.io/) is a postdoctoral researcher in [Linguistics](http://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/) at the [University of Rochester](https://rochester.edu/) and a member of the [Formal and Computational Semantics lab](http://factslab.io/) (FACTS.lab). He is interested in combining computational tools from Bayesian data analysis and programming language theory and bringing them to semantics. He will be an Assistant Professor of Semantics and Computational Linguistics at the [University of Florida](https://lin.ufl.edu/) starting in August, 2025. [Aaron Steven White](http://aaronstevenwhite.io/) is an Associate Professor of [Linguistics](http://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/) and [Computer Science](https://www.cs.rochester.edu/) at the [University of Rochester](https://rochester.edu/), where he directs the [Center for Language Sciences](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/cls/) and the [Formal and Computational Semantics lab](http://factslab.io/) (FACTS.lab). [His research](http://aaronstevenwhite.io/research) investigates the relationship between linguistic expressions and conceptual categories that undergird the human ability to convey information about possible past, present, and future configurations of things in the world. ## About the site The site itself is built using [Quarto](https://quarto.org/). The source files for this site are available on github at [`juliangrove/pds-2025`](https://github.com/juliangrove/pds-2025.git). ## Acknowledgments The materials for [Module 3](adjectives/) were developed partly in collaboration with [Helena Aparicio](https://lime-lab-cornell.github.io/HelenaWebsite/index.html). ## License <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/80x15.png" /></a> <span xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" property="dct:title" rel="dct:type">Probabilistic dynamic semantics</span> by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://juliangrove.github.io" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">Julian Grove</a> and <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://aaronstevenwhite.io" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">Aaron Steven White</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>. Based on work at <a xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" href="https://github.com/juliangrove/pds-2025" rel="dct:source">https://github.com/juliangrove/pds-2025</a>.