Christiane Fellbaum

Christiane D. Fellbaum
NationalityAmerican
Known forCo-creating WordNet
Academic background
Alma materPrinceton University (Ph.D., 1980)
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-disciplineCognitive linguistics
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Websitewww.cs.princeton.edu/people/profile/fellbaum

Christiane D. Fellbaum is an American linguist and computational linguistics researcher who is Lecturer with Rank of Professor in the Program in Linguistics and the Computer Science Department at Princeton University.[1] The co-developer of the WordNet project, she is also its current director.

  1. ^ "Fellbaum receives $1.6 million award for linguistics research". Princeton University. November 28, 2001. Retrieved May 5, 2019. At Princeton, she is one of the creators of WordNet, a database of English words that are linked to each other according to their meanings...Fellbaum received her Ph.D. in linguistics from Princeton. After several teaching and research positions, she returned to Princeton to work as a research scientist in 1987.