Christiane D. Fellbaum

Senior Research Scientist
Member, Executive Committee for the Program in Linguistics

Department of Computer Science
35 Olden Street Princeton University
Princeton
New Jersey 08540-5233
U.S.A.


Phone: 609-258-2824
Fax: 609-258-1771

my last name@princeton.edu

Co-Founder and Co-President of the Global WordNet Association

Director of the Project Collocations in the German Language of the 20th Century
funded through the Wolfgang Paul Prize

Partner in the European Project KYOTO

2006 Antonio Zampolli Prize (with George A. Miller)

Permanent Fellow, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

Work currently supported by the NSF, ARDA/DTO (AQUAINT Program), European Union (Seventh Framework)


Research Interests

Lexical semantics, the syntax-semantics interface, syntactic alternations, computational linguistics, large-scale lexical resources, idioms, ontology.


Selected publications from the 21st century

Fellbaum, C., (2000). Autotroponymy. In: Ravin, Y. and Leacock, C. (eds.): Polysemy, pp. 52-67. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Fong, S., Fellbaum, C., and D. Lebeaux, (2000). Semantic Templates and Transitivity Alternations in the Lexicon. Proceedings of TALN 2000 , Lausanne, Switzerland.

Fong, S., Fellbaum, C., and D. Lebeaux, (2001). Ghosts, Shadows, and Resultatives: The Lexical Representation of Verbs. Traitement Automatique de Langue, Vol. 42. No. 3, 767-797.

Fellbaum, C. (2002). On the Semantics of Troponymy. In: Green, R., Bean, C., Myaeng, S. (eds.): Relations. Dordrecht, Holland: Kluwer.

Fellbaum, C. and Grabowski, A. (2002). Polysemy and the (Mental) Lexicon. In: Lenci, A., and di Tomaso, V. (Eds.) Exploring the Lexicon: Theory and Computation, 7-16. Alessandria, Italy: Edizione dell'Orso.

Fellbaum, C. (2002). Parallel Hierarchies in the Verb Lexicon. Proceedings of the OntoLex Workshop , LREC, Las Palmas, Spain (2002).

Fellbaum, C. (2002). VP Idioms in the Lexicon: Topics for Research Using a Very Large Corpus. In: Busemann, S., (Ed.), Proceedings of KONVENS 2002, Saarbruecken, Germany: DFKI

Fellbaum, C., Kramer, U., and Stantcheva, D. (2003). Etwas and eins in VP-Idiomen. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Institut fuer Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany.

Fellbaum, C. (2003). Distinguishing Verb Types in a Lexical Ontology. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon. ISSCO, Geneva.

Smith, B. and Fellbaum, C. (2004). Medical WordNet: A New Methodology for the Construction and Validation of Information Resources for Consumer Health. In: Proceedings of COLING, Geneva.

Neumann, G., Fellbaum, C., Geyken, A., Herold, A., Huemmer, C., Koerner, F., Kramer, U., Krell, K., Sokirko, A., Stantcheva, D., and Stathi, K. (2004). A Corpus-Based Lexical Resource of German Idioms. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Electronic Lexicons, eds. P. Saint Dizier and M. Zock, COLING, Geneva.

Geyken, A., Sokirko, A., Rehbein, I., and Fellbaum, C. (2004). What is the optimal corpus size for the study of idioms? Annual meeting of the German Linguistic Society, Mainz February 2004.

Sojka, Petr, Pala, Karel, Smrz, Pavel, Fellbaum, Christiane, and Vossen, Piek, Eds. (2004). Proceedings of the Second International WordNet Conference. Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Fellbaum, C. (2004). Idiome in einem Digitalen Lexikalischen System. Linguistik und Literatur, Vol. 34, no. 136, 56-71.

Fellbaum, C., Neumann, G., and Kramer, U. (2004). Corpusbasierte lexikographische Erfassung und linguistische Analyse deutscher Idiome. Proceedings of the 2004 Europhras conference, Basel, Switzerland.

Fellbaum, C., Delfs, L., Wolff, S., and Palmer, M. (2005). Word Meaning in Dictionaries, Corpora, and the Speaker's Mind., In: Barnbrook, G., Danielsson, P., and Mahlberg, M. (Eds.), Meaningful Texts: The Extraction of Semantic Information from Monolingual and Multilingual Corpora. Birmingham, UK: Birmingham University Press, 31-38.

Fellbaum, C. (2005). Examining the Constraints on the Benefactive Alternation by Using the World Wide Web as a Corpus. In: Reis, Marga and Kepser, Stephan (eds.), Evidence in Linguistics: Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives. Mouton de Gruyter, 209-240.

Palmer, M., Dang, H., and Fellbaum, C. (2005). Making fine-grained and coarse-grained sense distinctions. Journal of Natural Language Engineering.

Kramer, U., Neumann, G., Stathi, K. and Fellbaum. C. (2005). Kollokationen im Woerterbuch:Das Wolfgang Paul-Preis Projekt an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Zeitschrift fuer Germanistik.

Fellbaum, C. (2005). Theories of human semantic representation of the mental lexicon. In: Cruse, D. A. (Ed.), Handbook of Linguistics and Communication Science, Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter, 1749-1758.

Basu, C., Merrell, M.A., Fellbaum, C., Talbert, D., Kolpack, J., Honeycutt, M., Alonso, R., and Bloom, J. (2005) Automated Knowledge Discovery System: A Business Case Study in Ontology Development and Use. Proceedings of FOMI, Lago di Garda, Italy.

Fellbaum, C., and Stathi. E. (2006). Ididome in der Grammatik und im Kontext: We bruellt hier die Leviten? In: Proost, K., and Winkler, E. (Eds.) ``Von Intentionalitaet zur Bedeutung konventionalisierter Zeichen.'' Berlin:deGruyter, 125-146.

Boyd-Graber, J., Fellbaum, C., Osherson, D., and Schapire, R. (2006). Adding dense, weighted, connections to WordNet. In: Proceedings of the Third Global WordNet Meeting, Jeju Island, Korea, January 2006.

Keyvan, F., Borjian, H., Kasheff, M., and Fellbaum, C. (2006). Developing PersiaNet: The Persian WordNet. In: Proceedings of the Third Global WordNet Meeting, Jeju Island, Korea, January 2006.

Elkateb. S., Black, W., Farwell, D., Rodroguez, H., Alkhalifa, M., Pease, A., Vossen, P., and Fellbaum, C. (2006). Challenges of Building an Arabic WordNet. Sixth International Conference on Language Engineering, Cairo, Egypt.

Fellbaum. C. Ed. (2006) Corpus-Based Studies of German Idioms and Light Verbs. Special issue of the Journal of Lexicography, 19.4.

Fellbaum, C. Ed. (2007). Collocations and Idioms: Corpus-Based Linguistic and Lexicographic Studies. Continuum Press, Birmingham, UK.

Fellbaum, C. (2007). The Ontological Loneliness of Idioms. In: Schalley, A., and Zaefferer, D. (Eds.), Ontolinguistics, Mouton.

Fellbaum, C., Osherson, A., and Clark, P. (2007). Putting Semantics into WordNet's "Morphosemantic" Links. Proceedings of the Third Language and Technology Conference, Poznan (Poland).


Non-scientific writings

Fellbaum, C. (2004). Klimavergleich D-US, oder: Die unertraegliche Leichtigkeit des akademischen Lebens. In : Gegenworte Vol. 14, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Reprinted in: Claudia Koepernik, Johannes Moes, and Sandra Tiefel (Eds.): Handbuch Promovieren mit Perspektive. Ein Ratgeber von und fuer DoktorandInnen. Bertelsmann: Bielefeld 2005.

Fellbaum, C. (2005). Einsteinsche Beruehrungsreliquien. In: Gegenworte Vol. 16, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.