I'm Jules Watson (they/them), a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Toronto. My background is in linguistics and computer science, and my research integrates ideas from these fields. Most recently, my research focuses on formalizing how language communicates social meaning, paving the way for more equitable and socially intelligent technology.
Watson, J., Kapron-King, A., Aggarwal., J., Beekhuizen, B., Heller, D., & Stevenson, S. (2021) Come Together: Integrating Perspective Taking and Perspectival Expressions. In CogSci.
Watson, J., Beekhuizen, B., & Stevenson, S. (2020). Coloring Outside the Lines: Error Patterns in Children's Acquisition of Color Terms. In CogSci.
Rabinovich, E., Watson, J., Beekhuizen, B., & Stevenson, S. (2019) Say Anything: Automatic Semantic Infelicity Detection in L2 English Indefinite Pronouns. In CoNLL.
Winner of the CoNLL Best Paper Award for Research Inspired by Human Language Learning and Processing
Watson, J., Beekhuizen, B., & Stevenson, S. (2019) Identifying the Evolutionary Progression of Color from Crosslinguistic Data. In CogSci.
Beekhuizen, B., Watson, J., & Stevenson, S. (2017). Semantic Typology and Parallel Corpora: Something about Indefinite Pronouns. In CogSci.