Christopher Potts

He gave plenary talks at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, and the 2025 convention of the Linguistics Society of America.

Academic career

Potts earned his Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from New York University (1999) and his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, Santa Cruz (2003), with a dissertation titled The Logic of Conventional Implicatures advised by Geoffrey K. Pullum. After his doctoral studies, he joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2003–2009). In 2009, he joined Stanford University, where he now serves as Chair of the Linguistics Department and holds a courtesy appointment in the Computer Science Department. His interdisciplinary work is widely cited in studies of language processing, formal semantics, and natural language understanding.