James Pustejovsky (born 1956) is an American computer scientist. He is the TJX Feldberg
professor
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of
computer science
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at
Brandeis University
, mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts"
, established =
, type = Private research university
, accreditation = NECHE
, president = Ronald D. Liebowitz
, ...
in
Waltham, Massachusetts
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, United States. His expertise includes theoretical and computational modeling of language, specifically:
Computational linguistics,
Lexical semantics
Lexical semantics (also known as lexicosemantics), as a subfield of linguistic semantics, is the study of word meanings.Pustejovsky, J. (2005) Lexical Semantics: Overview' in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, second edition, Volumes 1-14Ta ...
,
Knowledge representation, temporal and spatial reasoning and Extraction. His main topics of research are
Natural language processing generally, and in particular, the computational analysis of linguistic meaning. He holds a B.S. from MIT as well as a PhD from the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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.
Pustejovsky first proposed
generative lexicon Generative lexicon (GL) is a theory of linguistic semantics which focuses on the distributed nature of compositionality in natural language. The first major work outlining the framework is James Pustejovsky's 1991 article "The Generative Lexicon". ...
theory in
lexical semantics
Lexical semantics (also known as lexicosemantics), as a subfield of linguistic semantics, is the study of word meanings.Pustejovsky, J. (2005) Lexical Semantics: Overview' in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, second edition, Volumes 1-14Ta ...
in an article published in 1991,
which was further developed in his 1995 book, of the same name.
His other interests include
temporal reasoning, event semantics,
spatial language,
language annotation,
computational linguistics, and
machine learning
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Machine ...
.
Current research
Pustejovsky's research group's current projects include the
TimeML and
ISO-Space projects. The TimeML project is a standard
markup language for
temporal events in a document, and has recently been adopted as
ISO-TImeML by the
ISO
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. ISO-Space is an ISO-directed effort to create an expressive specification for the representation of spatial information in language. His previous work included the
Medstract project, an effort to extract information from
medical
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documents using current
natural language processing technology.
References
External links
Professor Pustejovsky's website*
ttps://www.amazon.com/Generative-Lexicon-Language-Speech-Communication/dp/0262661403/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1375553964&sr=8-3&keywords=pustejovsky Pustejovsky's book on the Generative LexiconThe TimeML projectThe Medstract project
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1956 births
Living people
Brandeis University faculty
American computer scientists
Linguists from the United States
Computational linguistics researchers
Generative linguistics
Natural language processing researchers