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Ponrawee Prasertsom
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Me in Nikko, Japan (2024)

I am a PhD student at the Centre for Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh. My research focuses on explanations for why grammatical concepts appear to be constrained and recur across languages. Supervised by Prof Jennifer Culbertson and Prof Kenny Smith, I explore these questions using experimental and computational methods. More broadly, my research interests are in syntactic and semantic universals.

Prior to my PhD, I did the MSc in Evolution of Language and Cognition at Edinburgh. Before that, I was at Department of Linguistics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, where I earned my MA in linguistics. I was supervised by Prof Attapol T. Rutherford, who I work with on a few natural language processing projects. I am also involved in the annual Thailand Linguistics Olympiad.

PSA: I am committed to higher language data quality in linguistics and cognitive sciences. If you need acceptability judgments for my native language (Bangkok Thai) or need to consult about anything on Thai, please feel free to email me for potential scheduled calls.

Publications

The CogSci 2024 proceeding paper (Prasertsom, Smith & Culbertson, 2024. Domain-general...) contains a minor error found post-publication in the description of the training-to-criteria trials. You can see the corrected version here.

Prasertsom, P., Smith, K., & Culbertson, J. (2024). Domain-general categorisation principles explain the prevalence of animacy and absence of colour in noun classification systems. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2dx4g13f
Prasertsom, P., Jaroonpol, A., & Rutherford, A. T. (2024). The Thai Discourse Treebank: Annotating and classifying Thai discourse connectives. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 12, 613–629. https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00650
Chormai, P., Prasertsom, P., Cheevaprawatdomrong, J., & Rutherford, A. T. (2020). Syllable-based neural Thai word segmentation. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 4619–4637. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.407
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