Christiane Fellbaum

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

Life

Fellbaum was born in Braunschweig in 1969 and immigrated to the United States. There she studied at Princeton University and received her Ph.D. degree there in 1980 in linguistics. After that, she was part of the cognitive sciences under George Armitage Miller and has played an important role as co-founder and in the development of WordNet. In 2001, she started using the prize money of the Wolfgang -Paul Prize of the Humboldt Foundation, the project " collocations in the dictionary " at the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, where she works as a professor. She is married to the physicists Elliott Lieb.

Publications (selection)

Own

  • Functional structure and surface structure, 1980 * Her On the middle construction in English, 1986
  • The middle construction in French and English: a comparative study of its syntax and semantics / along 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: Language and Cognition Research Group at the Department Psychology III at the Univ, 1995.
  • Idioms and Collocations: Corpus -based linguistic and lexicographic studies / edited by Christiane Fellbaum. Continuum, London; New York, 2009.

Translations

  • Words: forays into psycholinguistics / George A. Miller. Edited and out of the Amerikan. transl. together with Joachim Grabowski, Frankfurt am Main: Zweitausendeins, Affoltern aA: Book 2000, 1995

Awards

  • 2001: Wolfgang Paul Award
  • 2006: Antonio Zampolli Prize along with George A. Miller for her work on Wordnet
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