معرفی
Annie Zaenen is a Senior Researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) and a Consulting Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University. She has held roles including Senior Researcher at Xerox PARC and Area Manager at the Xerox European Research Center. Her primary affiliations today are with Stanford and CSLI, where she continues research in theoretical and computational linguistics.
Education: Ph.D. in Linguistics from Harvard University (1980), with a dissertation on Extraction Rules in Icelandic.
Research Interests
Zaenen's work focuses on syntax, semantics, and formal grammar frameworks such as Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG). She has contributed to understanding quirky case in Icelandic, unaccusative verbs, and long-distance dependencies. Her research bridges theoretical linguistics and computational applications, including morphological analysis, natural logic, and semantic representations for NLP.
Labs & Collaborations
She is affiliated with the Spoken Syntax Lab and co-edits the journal LiLT (Linguistic Issues in Language Technology). Her collaborations include work on VerbNet, textual inference, and computational semantics.
