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Director Emeritus, CSLI

Christopher Potts

Christopher Potts is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Stanford and Director Emeritus of CSLI.  In his research, he uses computational methods to explore how emotion is expressed in language and how linguistic production and interpretation are influenced by the context of utterance.  He is the author of the 2005 book The Logic of Conventional Implicatures as well as numerous scholarly papers in computational and theoretical linguistics.  He earned his BA from NYU in 1999 and his PhD from UC Santa Cruz in 2003.

Role: Faculty

Project: Pragmatic Enrichment & Contextual Interface Lab

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