Alexandra Lascarides is a linguist and chair in Semantics in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.

Her research investigates computational linguistics and artificial intelligence.

[3][4] She moved to the University of Edinburgh for her graduate studies, earning a master's degree in cognitive science in 1985.

She stayed at Edinburgh for her doctoral research on semantic analysis.

[5] Lascarides’ publications[1][6] include: In 2023 she was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).