James Pustejovsky (born 1956) is an American computer scientist. He is the TJX Feldberg

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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

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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 Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. 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

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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

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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 Lexicon
The TimeML project

The Medstract project
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pustejovsky, James 1956 births Living people Brandeis University faculty American computer scientists Linguists from the United States Computational linguistics researchers Generative linguistics Natural language processing researchers