U.S.-France Cooperative Research: Organization of the Lexicon and Semantic Operation Based on Active Constraints

这一为期三年的奖项支持布兰代斯大学的詹姆斯·普斯特乔夫斯基和图卢兹保罗·萨巴蒂尔大学的帕特里克·圣迪泽在计算语言学方面的美法合作研究。该项目致力于自然语言处理中词义语义的研究。其目标是将关于单词知识表示的形式工作和理论工作结合起来，然后定义一个表达这些知识的计算框架。Pustejovsky博士带来了词汇语义学和自然语言表示理论方面的合作经验。他最近的研究为词汇知识的研究提供了一个当代的框架。这一点得到了这家法国集团将逻辑编程应用于自然语言处理问题的创新方法的补充。词汇语义是自然语言处理中最困难的领域之一，需要有效的计算工具。这个项目通过结合美国和法国调查人员的互补方法来解决这个问题。研究结果将促进我们对计算机语言学的了解，并有助于解决该领域的几个实际问题：信息检索、人机接口、机器翻译、词典设计和电子文档传播。

This three-year award supports U.S-France cooperative research in computational linguistics between James Pustejovsky of Brandeis University and Patrick Saint Dizier of the University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse. The project addresses research in the semantics of word meaning in natural language processing. The objective is to combine formal and theoretical work on the representation of word knowledge and then to define a computational framework for expressing this knowledge. Dr. Pustejovsky brings to this collaboration experience in the theory of lexical semantics and natural language representation. His recent research has provided a contemporary framework for research on lexical knowledge. This is complemented by the French group's innovative methodology for applying logic programming to natural language processing problems. Lexical semantics, one of the most difficult areas in natural language processing, requires effective computational tools. This project addresses that problem by combining the complementary approaches of the U.S. and French investigators. The results will advance our knowledge of computer linguistics and contribute to the resolution of several practical problems in this field: information retrieval, interface between humans and computers, machine translation, dictionary design and electronic document dissemination.