Christiane Fellbaum

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Christiane Dorothea Fellbaum (* 1950 in Braunschweig ) is a German linguist .

Life

Fellbaum was born in Braunschweig and went to the USA in 1969. There she studied at Princeton University , where she completed her Ph.D. in linguistics . She then became part of the Cognitive Sciences under George Armitage Miller and played an important role as co-founder and in the development of WordNet .

In 2001 she started the project "Collocations in the dictionary" at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences with the help of the Wolfgang Paul Prize of the Humboldt Foundation . After graduation, she worked as a lecturer at Princeton University. She is married to the physicist Elliott Lieb .

Publications (selection)

  • Functional structure and surface structure, 1980
  • On the middle construction in English, 1986
  • The middle construction in French and English: a comparative study of its syntax and semantics / together with Anne Zribi-Hertz. Bloomington, Ind .: Reproduced by Indiana University Linguistics Club Publications, 1989
  • Matching words to senses in WordNet: naive vs. expert differentiation of senses, Mannheim: Research group Language and Cognition at the Department of Psychology III at the University, 1995
  • Idioms and collocations: corpus-based linguistic and lexicographic studies / edited by Christiane Fellbaum. Continuum, London; New York, 2009.
Translations
  • George A. Miller : Words .: Forays through psycholinguistics . Ed. And from the American. translated together with Joachim Grabowski , Frankfurt am Main: Zweiausendeins, Affoltern a. A .: Book 2000, 1995

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Project presentation: collocations in the dictionary.
  2. ↑ Christiane fur tree. Short biography
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Paul Prize. On: humboldt-foundation.de
    Christiane Fellbaum: Researcher Prize for the raising of the vocabulary. On: Wissenschaft.de from November 7, 2001
  4. ^ Winners of the 2006 Antonio Zampolli Prize.
personal data
SURNAME Fellbaum, Christiane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fellbaum, Christiane Dorothea (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig