Data-Driven Linguistic Ontology Development

Funded by the NSF (#0411348)

William Lewis, CSU Fresno, PI

Scott Farrar, Universität Bremen, Contractor

The Researchers

William Lewis and Scott Farrar were both students in the Linguistics program at the University of Arizona in Tucson.  Will completed his PhD in Computational Linguistics in 2002, and joined the faculty of the Department of Linguistics at California State University, Fresno in August of that year.  Scott completed his PhD in Computational Linguistics in 2003, and is now a postdoc working with John Bateman at the Universität Bremen on the OntoSpace project, which seeks to develop ontologies for spatial communication.  Both were students of Terry Langendoen's at the University of Arizona. Terry is a co-PI on the Arizona component of the EMELD grant (NSF #0094934), and it was this grant that provided much of the funding for the development of GOLD, and intial IGT data mining.  The DDLOD grant, of course, has provided additional funding.

This project, of course, would not be possible without the tireless and dedicated work of three student research assistants at California State University Fresno:  Gregg Deslauriers, Hector Gonzalez, and Sam Trenholme.  Gregg is currently working on a Masters in Cogntive Science, Hector is working on a Bachelors in Computer Science and Computational Linguistics, and Sam is working on a Bachelors in Computational Linguistics.