karl mulligan
I’m a Postdoc in the Cognitive Science and Pragmatics lab at the University of Tübingen, where I work with Michael Franke.
I study representations of meaning in natural language discourse, with particular interests in discourse structure and the language of causality. My work draws on methods from formal semantics and pragmatics, computational modeling, and human subjects experiments.
Prior to coming to Tübingen, I did my PhD in Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University, advised by Kyle Rawlins.
Outside of research, I like to cook, garden, and read. I also run, a lot.
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publications
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Shifting Topic.
Doctoral dissertation. 2025.
(Committee: Justin Bledin, Jennifer Hu, Pasha Koval, Kyle Rawlins, Benjamin van Durme). -
Analyzing naturally-sourced Questions Under Discussion.
With Kyle Rawlins. Proceedings of ELM 3. 2025. -
Identifying Questions Under Discussion in Naturalistic Discourse.
With Kyle Rawlins. Proceedings of SCiL 7. 2024. -
Perspectival biscuits.
With Kyle Rawlins. Proceedings of SALT 33. 2023. -
A compositional semantics for spatial perspective-shifting adjuncts.
With Kyle Rawlins. Proceedings of WCCFL 40. 2022. -
Structure here, bias there: Hierarchical generalization by jointly learning syntactic transformations.
With Robert Frank and Tal Linzen. Proceedings of SCiL 4. 2021. -
Grounded Sequence to Sequence Transduction.
With Lucia Specia et al. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. 2020.