lexicographer linguist university professor
She received a Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University in linguistics and later joined Princeton"s Cognitive Science Laboratory working with George Armitage Miller on the development of WordNet, a large lexical database that serves as a widely used resource in computational linguistics and natural language processing applications.
Born in Braunschweig, Germany in 1950, she moved to the United States in 1969. In 2001, she received the Wolfgang-Paul Prize of the Humboldt-Foundation and started the "Kollokationen im Wörterbuch" project at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on lexical semantics, the syntax-semantics interface and computational linguistics.
