Annie Else Zaenen (b. 1941, Belgium) is an adjunct professor of linguistics at Stanford University, California, United States.[1]

Career

Zaenen obtained her Ph.D. at Harvard University with her doctoral thesis Extraction Rules in Icelandic in 1980.[2] After a postdoc at MIT, she taught syntax at the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, and Harvard, before joining PARC and Stanford.[3] During the ‘90s, she was the manager of the Natural Language group of the Xerox Research Centre Europe in Grenoble, France. After Zaenen retired from PARC in 2011, she joined a research group on Language and Natural Reasoning at CSLI working on the linguistic encoding of temporal and spatial information, local textual inferences and natural logic.[4][3]

She has worked on both the syntax of Germanic languages and on the development of Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), with excursions into lexical semantics.[4][3] 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.[4] She had numerous widely-cited publications on these topics.[5][6] Zaenen is also known for her sharp commentary on research trends in Computational Linguistics.[7]

Honors

In 2013, Zaenen was honored by a Festschrift, edited by Tracy Holloway King and Valeria de Paiva.[8]

She was the founding editor of the online journal Linguistic Issues in Language Technology.[9]

Partial bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Faculty | Linguistics". linguistics.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  2. ^ Zaenen, Annie Else (1980). Extraction Rules in Icelandic. Harvard University. ISBN 978-0-8240-5443-4.
  3. ^ a b c "Stanford Linguistics faculty". stanford.edu. Stanford. Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
  4. ^ a b c "History of Speech and Language Technology". sarasinstitute.org. Saras Institute. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
  5. ^ "Annie Zaenen, Publication List Details". en.scientificcommons.org. Scientific Commons. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
  6. ^ "Annie Zaenen". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  7. ^ Zaenen, Annie (December 30, 2006). "Mark-up Barking Up the Wrong Tree". Computational Linguistics. 32 (4): 577–580. doi:10.1162/coli.2006.32.4.577. S2CID 10051962.
  8. ^ King, Tracy Holloway and Valeria de Paivs (eds.) From Quirky Case to Representing Space: Papers in Honor of Annie Zaenen. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA.2013. pp. 232. ISBN 978-1-57586-663-5. http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/9781575866628.shtml
  9. ^ "Editorial Team, Linguistic Issues in Language Technology". journals.colorado.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  10. ^ Kimball, John P.; Philip J. Tedeschi, Annie Zaenen (1981). Tense and Aspect. Academic Press. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-12-613514-5.
  11. ^ Joan Maling; Annie Zaenen (1990). Modern Icelandic syntax. Joan Maling, Stephen R. Anderson, Annie Zaenen. Academic Press. p. 443. ISBN 978-0-12-613524-4.
  12. ^ Lori Levin; Malka Rappaport; Malka Rappaport Hovav; Annie Else Zaenen; Indiana University Linguistics Club (1983). Papers in lexical-functional grammar. Indiana University Linguistics Club. p. 191.
  13. ^ Annie Else Zaenen; Harvard University; Indiana University Linguistics Club (1982). Subjects and other subjects: proceedings of the Harvard Conference on the Representation of Grammatical Relations, December, 1981. Indiana University Linguistics Club. p. 153.
  14. ^ Zaenen, Annie Else (1985). Extraction rules in Icelandic (illustrated ed.). Garland Pub. p. 393. ISBN 978-0-8240-5443-4.
  15. ^ Zaenen, Annie (2007). Architectures, Rules, and Preferences: Variations on Themes by Joan W. Bresnan (illustrated ed.). Center for the Study of Language and Inf. p. 554. ISBN 978-1-57586-560-7.

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