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Name: Rui Pedro da Costa Chaves

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Academic Degree: Phd Linguistics

Professional Status: Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA.

CLUL's Research Sector: CLG

Homepage:  http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~rchaves/

Research Areas: Syntax, Semantics, Processing.

• Phd Linguistics, 2007. University of Lisbon. 
• MA, Natural Language Processing, 2003. Faculty of Letters (University of Lisbon)
• Licentiate, Natural Language and Knowledge Engineering, 1999. Faculty of Sciences (University of Lisbon)  

(Selected) Publications:

• Chaves, R. P. (2012). "On the grammar of extraction and coordination". Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 30(2), 465 - 512.
  
  
• Chaves, R. P. (2010). "Crash-free syntax and crash phenomena in model-theoretic grammar". In Michael T. Putnam (Edt), Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars (Language Faculty and Beyond), John Benjamins.

• Chaves, R. P. (2009). Construction-based cumulation and adjunct extraction. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Goettingen, Germany, pp.47–67. Stanford: CSLI Publications
  
  
• Chaves, R. P. and J. E. Dery (2009). Complexity, ellipsis and agreement puzzles in NP coordination. Poster inAMLAP 2009, 15th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Barcelona, Spain.

• Chaves, Rui P. (2008). Linearization-based word-part ellipsis. Linguistics and Philosophy, 31(3): 261–307. 
  
  
• Ito, Chizuru and Rui P. Chaves (2008). Apparent non-constituent coordination in Japanese. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Keihanna, Japan, pp. 95–115. Stanford: CSLI Publications

• Chaves, R. P. (2007). Dados para uma melhor compreensão das Estruturas de Coordenação em Português. Em Sessão de Estudantes do 75º Aniversário do Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, pp.6. 
  
  
• Chaves, R. P. and D. Paperno (2007). On the Russian hybrid coordination construction. In Stefan Müller (Edt.), Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, pp. 46–64. Stanford University. 
  
  
• Chaves, R. P. (2007). Dynamic Model checking for Discourse Representation Structures with pluralities. In J. Geertzen, E. Thijsse, H. Bunt,and A. Schiffrin (Eds.), 7th International Workshop on Computational Semantics, pp. 28 - 40. Tilburg University, The Netherlands.

• Amaro, R., R. P. Chaves, P. Marrafa, and S. Mendes (2006). "Enriching Wordnets with new relations and with event and argument structures". In Alexander Gelbukh (Edt.), Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing-2006), Mexico, Mexico City. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 28 - 40. Springer-Verlag. 

• Chaves R. P. (2005). "Underspecification and NP coordination in constraint-based grammar". In F. Richter and M. Sailer (Eds.), Workshop on Empirical Challenges and Analytical Alternatives to Strict Compositionality, pp. 38-58, 17th ESSLLI, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. 
  
  
• Chaves R. P. (2005). "DRT and underspecification of plural ambiguities". In H. Bunt, J. Geertzen and E. Thijse (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Computational Semantics, pp. 78-89. Tilburg, The Netherlands.

• Chaves, R. P. (2003). Non-redundant scope disambiguation in Underspecified Semantics. In Balder ten Cate (Ed.) Proceedings of the 8th ESSLLI Student Session, pp. 47 - 58. Vienna, Austria.

• Mendes, S. and R. P. Chaves (2001). "Enriching WordNet with Qualia information". Proceedings of NAACL 2001 (North American Association for Computational Linguistics) Workshop on WordNet and Other LexicalResources, pp. 108-112. Pittsburgh, PA, USA.