Aaron Steven White
Computational semanticist.
News
Gave a talk at Penn on Characterizing uncertainty in lexically triggered inferences as part of the MindCORE/ILST seminar series.
Gave a talk at ATScience 2026 on Chive, a decentralized eprint service on ATProto.
Giving a demo of FOVEA (Flexible Ontology Visual Event Analyzer) at CVPR 2026.
Giving two posters at ELM4: The context-sensitivity of subordinate clause selection and Aspectual similarity predicts sense similarity.
Giving a poster with Julian Grove at SALT36 on Arrows for Conventional Implicature.
About
I'm an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Rochester, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science and an affiliation with the Goergen Institute for Data Science. I'm also Director of the Center for Language Sciences and the Formal and Computational Semantics Lab (FACTS.lab).
Selected Papers
Selected Code
Web-based tool for developing annotation ontologies for video data with automated video analysis, object detection, and intelligent ontology suggestions.
Decentralized eprints on ATProto
A functional probabilistic programming language for PyTorch, with surface syntax familiar from Pyro, NumPyro, Stan, and PyMC.
Mutual intelligibility for schema idiolects. A federated substrate for sharing schemas, lenses, and conventions across communities on atproto.
Recent Presentations
Grove, Julian and Aaron Steven White. 2026. Arrows for conventional implicature. Poster to be presented at the 36th Semantics and Linguistic Theory, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 29-31, 2026.
White, Aaron Steven. 2026. Aspectual similarity predicts sense similarity. Poster to be presented at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 4, Philadelphia, PA, June 10-12, 2026.
White, Aaron Steven. 2026. The context-sensitivity of subordinate clause selection. Poster to be presented at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 4, Philadelphia, PA, June 10-12, 2026.