Christiane Fellbaum
Encyclopedia
Christiane D. Fellbaum, born in Braunschweig
, Lower Saxony
, Germany
, has lived in the United States
since 1969. After graduating from Princeton University
with a PhD in linguistics
, she became a part of the Cognitive Science
department under George Armitage Miller and has played an active role in the development of WordNet
. In 2001, through the gift of the Wolfgang-Paul Prize of the Humboldt-Foundation, she started the 'Kollokationen im Wörterbuch' project at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. She is a founder and president of the Global WordNet Association, that guides the constructions of lexical databases in many languages around the globe.
Braunschweig
Braunschweig , is a city of 247,400 people, located in the federal-state of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser....
, Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, has lived in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
since 1969. After graduating from Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
with a PhD in linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
, she became a part of the Cognitive Science
Cognitive science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...
department under George Armitage Miller and has played an active role in the development of WordNet
WordNet
WordNet is a lexical database for the English language. It groups English words into sets of synonyms called synsets, provides short, general definitions, and records the various semantic relations between these synonym sets...
. In 2001, through the gift of the Wolfgang-Paul Prize of the Humboldt-Foundation, she started the 'Kollokationen im Wörterbuch' project at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. She is a founder and president of the Global WordNet Association, that guides the constructions of lexical databases in many languages around the globe.