James Pustejovsky
James Pustejovsky studies computational meaning, including lexical semantics and representations of events, time and spatial relations. Pustejovsky published The Generative Lexicon in 1995. His research examines how words and meanings combine, including ambiguity and changes of sense in new contexts. Another listing gives 1998 as its publication date. The LAPPS Grid is a web service platform for language processing research. Collaborators include Vassar, Carnegie Mellon and the Linguistic Data Consortium. The project works on exchanging linguistic objects between tools and composing customized processing pipelines.
Timeline
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1995
A generative account of word meaning
Pustejovsky published The Generative Lexicon in 1995. His research examines how words and meanings combine, including ambiguity and changes of sense in new contexts. A separate publication date is 1998.
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2002
TimeML and event representation
The TERQAS workshop took place in 2002. The workshop defined an initial TimeML specification and created the TimeBank corpus. This formed part of collaborative work to improve question answering about events and times. Later projects developed annotation and temporal reasoning tools.
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As of October 2026
Language and multimodal interaction
Pustejovsky worked with a team on Communicating with Computers. The project combines language, gesture, visualization and action in a shared simulation environment. Tasks include collaborative structure building and other activities.
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As of October 2026
Connecting language resources
The LAPPS Grid is a web service platform for language processing research. Collaborators include Vassar, Carnegie Mellon and the Linguistic Data Consortium. The project works on exchanging linguistic objects between tools and composing customized processing pipelines.
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