Introduction
The Language and Learning Lab (founded in 2016) is in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Victoria. We study language by applying machine learning methods to large text datasets and by exploring the way the brain processes language.
One of our main focuses is the representation of meaning (semantics) in language, and how words can be combined to create more complex or nuanced meaning (semantic composition). We study semantic composition in the brain with the hopes that it can help us to build better computer models of semantics.
