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Prof. Dr. Christiane Fellbaum

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsGeneral and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
KeywordsKollokationen, Semantik, Syntax, Wörterbuch, Computerlexikographie

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityPrinceton
InstitutionPrinceton University
InstituteProgram in Linguistics

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dieter SimonBerlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang KleinMax-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen
Start of initial sponsorship01/12/2001

Programme(s)

2001Wolfgang Paul Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University) has developed new ways to describe the meaning of words on computer. Rather than in form of an alphabetical list, as familiar from traditional dictionaries, words are integrated into a complex semantical network, which does not only cover the meaning of individual words but also the relations between them. This procedure also allows an elegant analysis of ¿collocations', i.e., compound expressions such as 'to kick the bucket', which are a notorious problem for traditional dictionaries. These expressions are subject of her new project, which will be devoted to German. It is done in cooperation with the ¿Digitale Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache' at the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Publications (partial selection)

2006Christiane Fellbaum, Udo Hahn, Barry Smith: A New Resource for Biomedical Information: Medical WordNet. In: Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2006,
2005Christiane Fellbaum: Einsteinsche Beruehrungsreliquien. In: Gegenworte, 2005,
2005Christiane Fellbaum: Klimavergleich D-US, oder: Die unertraegliche Leichtigkeit des akademischen Lebens. In: Gegenworte, 2005, 29-32
2005Undine Kramer, Gerald Neumann, Ekatherini Stathi, Christiane Fellbaum: Kollokationen im Woerterbuch''--Das Wolfgang Paul-Preis Projekt an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.. In: Zeitschrift fuer Germanistik, 2005, 636-645
2005Christiane Fellbaum: Theories of human semantic representation of the mental lexicon. In: D. A. Cruse, Handbook of Linguistics and Communication Science. deGruyter, 2005. 1749-1758
2005Christiane Fellbaum, Alexander Geyken: Transforming a Corpus into a Lexical Resource for Idioms and Collocations. In: Revue Francaise de Linguistique Appliquee, 2005, 49-62
2005Christiane Fellbaum, Lauren Delfs, Susanne Wolff, Martha Palmer: Word Meaning in Dictionaries, Corpora, and the Speaker's Mind. In: Geoff Barnbrook, Perniall Danielsson,Michaela Mahlberg, Meaningful Texts: The Extraction of Semantic Information from Monolingual and Multilingual Corpora. Birmingham University Press, 2005. 31-38
2005Christiane Fellbaum: WordNet and wordnets. In: Keith Brown, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier, 2005. 665-670
2004Christiane Fellbaum: Idiome in einem Digitalen Lexikalischen System. In: Linguistik und Literatur, 2004, 56-71
2004Barry Smith, Christiane Fellbaum: Medical WordNet: A New Methodology for the Construction and Validation of Information Resources for Consumer Health.. Proceedings of COLING. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2004.