Gerald Penn

Professor of Computer Science,	Contact Information
University of Toronto	Publications
and Fellow of St. Michael's College	gpenn@cs.toronto.edu
	Digital Signature
Mail code: BA 4283	Phone:	+1 416 978-7390
University of Toronto	Fax:	+1 416 978-1455
40 St. George St.	Office Hours:	MF 11-12, R 2-3
Toronto M5S 2E4	Office:	GB 072 (MF), TF 002 (R)
Ontario, Canada

Research Interests

Natural Language Processing, Mathematical Linguistics,
Acoustic Modelling, Spoken Language Processing, Logic Programming,
Finite State Methods, Linguistic Information Visualization,
and Parsing in Freer-Word-Order Languages
(see also Publications, Students & Co-authors)

Projects

ALE	The Attribute Logic Engine

Courses

SMC 199	Intelligence: Artificial and Human, T 9-11; R 3-4
CSC 485/2501	Introduction to Computational Linguistics, MWF 10-11,12-1

Organizations

Mathematics of Language Society	Past President

Editorial Boards

Linguistics & Philosophy	Editorial Board

Home Pages

Computational Linguistics at Toronto

Drafts, Talks, and Publications on Work in Progress

Multi-agent based character simulation for story writing: Tian Yu, Ken Shi, Zixin Zhao and Gerald Penn.
4th Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing, 2025 Annual Conference of North American ACL (NAACL 2025), Albuquerque.
What does the knowledge neuron thesis have to do with knowledge?: Jingcheng Niu, Andrew Liu, Zining Zhu and Gerald Penn.
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024), Vienna.
Quantifying the Role of Textual Predictability in Automatic Speech Recognition: Sean Robertson, Gerald Penn and Ewan Dunbar.
25th Interspeech Conference (Interspeech 2024), Kos.

gpenn@cs.toronto.edu
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~gpenn
The style of these pages was shamelessly ripped off from Frank Pfenning.