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.
Giving a talk at ATScience 2026 on Chive, a decentralized eprint service on ATProto.
Giving two posters at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 4: The context-sensitivity of subordinate clause selection and Aspectual similarity predicts sense similarity.
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 Python framework for constructing, deploying, and analyzing large-scale linguistic judgment experiments with active learning.
A universal schema migration engine built on Generalized Algebraic Theories with automatic lens generation and bidirectional data transformation across 77 schema languages.
Recent Presentations
White, Aaron Steven. 2026. Characterizing Uncertainty in Lexically Triggered Inferences. Talk to be given at the University of Pennsylvania, January 30, 2026.
White, Aaron Steven. 2025. FOVEA: Flexible Ontology Visual Event Analyzer. Talk given at Johns Hopkins University Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, November 6, 2025.
White, Aaron Steven. 2025. Characterizing uncertainty in lexically triggered inferences. Talk given at Oxford University, October 13, 2025.
White, Aaron Steven. 2025. Understanding complex situation descriptions. Talk given at NAtural LOgic meets MAchine learning (NALOMA), August 5, 2025.