Annie Zaenen
Encyclopedia
Annie Else Zaenen is a linguistics consulting professor at Stanford University
and a principal scientist at the Palo Alta Research Center (PARC).
at Harvard University
with her doctoral thesis Extraction Rules in Icelandic in 1980. After a post doc at M.I.T. she taught syntax
at the University of Pennsylvania
, Harvard and Cornell University
before joining PARC and Stanford. During the 90s, she was the manager of the Natural Language group of the Xerox Research Centre Europe in Grenoble, France and has worked on both the syntax of Germanic languages
and on the development of Lexical Functional Grammar
(LFG), with excursions into lexical semantics. Her contributions to the theory of Lexical Functional Grammar are in the development of notions such as long-distance dependencies, functional uncertainty and the difference between subsumption and equality. She has had 27 scientific publications between 1996 and 2008, and currently works on coreference and anaphora resolution, information structure and the analysis of temporal expressions for reasoning, as well as being the main editor of the online journal Linguistic Issues in Language Technology
(LiLT).
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
and a principal scientist at the Palo Alta Research Center (PARC).
Career
Zaenen obtained her Ph.D.Ph.D.
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at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
with her doctoral thesis Extraction Rules in Icelandic in 1980. After a post doc at M.I.T. she taught syntax
Syntax
In linguistics, syntax is the study of the principles and rules for constructing phrases and sentences in natural languages....
at the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
, Harvard and Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
before joining PARC and Stanford. During the 90s, she was the manager of the Natural Language group of the Xerox Research Centre Europe in Grenoble, France and has worked on both the syntax of Germanic languages
Germanic languages
The Germanic languages constitute a sub-branch of the Indo-European language family. The common ancestor of all of the languages in this branch is called Proto-Germanic , which was spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Iron Age northern Europe...
and on the development of Lexical Functional Grammar
Lexical functional grammar
Lexical functional grammar is a grammar framework in theoretical linguistics, a variety of generative grammar. It is a type of phrase structure grammar, as opposed to a dependency grammar. The development of the theory was initiated by Joan Bresnan and Ronald Kaplan in the 1970s, in reaction to...
(LFG), with excursions into lexical semantics. Her contributions to the theory of Lexical Functional Grammar are in the development of notions such as long-distance dependencies, functional uncertainty and the difference between subsumption and equality. She has had 27 scientific publications between 1996 and 2008, and currently works on coreference and anaphora resolution, information structure and the analysis of temporal expressions for reasoning, as well as being the main editor of the online journal Linguistic Issues in Language Technology
Linguistic Issues in Language Technology
Linguistic Issues in Language Technology is an open-access journal that, according to its web page, "focusses on relationships between linguistic insights, which can prove valuable to language technology, and language technology, which can enrich linguistic research" [1]. It is published by ....
(LiLT).
Partial bibliography
- Tense and aspect ISBN 0126135142
- Modern Icelandic syntax ISBN 012613524X
- Papers in lexical-functional grammar
- Subjects and other subjects
- Extraction rules in Icelandic ISBN 0824054431
- Architectures, rules, and preferences ISBN 1575865602