James Pustejovsky

Title

TJX Feldberg Professor of Computer Science

Computer Science
Volen National Center for Complex Systems

Expertise

Theoretical and computational modeling of language, specifically: computational linguistics; lexical semantics; knowledge representation; temporal reasoning and extraction, machine learning, language annotation models.

Profile

I. INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITY
(Fall, 2012)

COSI 101A - 1 Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence
Contact hours Weekly: 3 hrs/wk
Number of Students: (37)

COSI 293G - 2 Master's Research Internship
Contact hours Weekly: 3 hrs/wk
Number of Students: (3)

COSI 400D - 9 Dissertation Research
Contact hours Weekly: 3 hrs/wk
Number of Students: (3)

COSI 210A - 9 Independent Study
Contact hours Weekly: 3 hrs/wk
Number of Students: (1)

(Spring 2013)

COSI 216A - 1 Natural Language Annotation for Machine Learning
Contact hours Weekly: 3 hrs/wk
Number of Students: (21)

COSI 293G - 1 Master's Research Internship
Contact hours Weekly: 6 hrs/wk
Number of Students: (2)

COSI 300B - 9 Master's Project
Contact hours Weekly: 6 hrs/wk
Number of Students: (3)

Course: 400D
Title: Dissertation Advising
Contact hours Weekly: 6 hrs/wk
Number of Students: (3)

b. Advising (total contact hours per week)

1) number of undergraduate departmental advisees:
2) number of graduate advisees: 20 MA students in the CL MA program.

c. Please describe your involvement in the direction of senior theses, graduate dissertations and other student research projects.

1. Research Scientist: Marc Verhagen continues in his capacity as
project manager for the Laboratory for Linguistics and Computation,
and the IARPA funded grant, FUSE, and the new NSF-funded grant, The
Language Application Grid.

3. Ph.D.: Seoyun Im: 6rd year student, defended her Ph.D. thesis
in August 2012. She has developed a computational linguistic resource
called an Event Structure Lexicon, which will help information
extraction systems derive richer sets of inferences associated with
the events mentioned in linguistic texts.

4. Ph.D.: Amber Stubbs: 4th year student, defended her
dissertation on annotation methodologies for developing corpora for
domain-expert texts, such as clinical notes and other specialized
texts. Defended Summer 2012.

5. Ph.D.: Alex Plotnik: 6th year student, interests include
computational models of semantics, particularly Generative Lexicon and
computational semiotics. He defended his proposal, and hopes to finish
his thesis in Spring 2014.

6. Ph.D.: John Vogel: 2nd year student, interests include
computational models of semantics, particularly the logic of deception
and lying, dynamic logic, and game theory. He was a CL MA student
two years ago.

7. Ph.D.: Michael Morrell Norwood: 9th year student, has been
teaching at NMSU, in Las Cruces, NM. He has finally written his
proposal for dissertation. He is again on
target to finish by late 2013.

Degrees

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Ph.D.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S.

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Contact

Email:	jamesp@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2709
Office:	Volen National Center for Complex Systems, 258

Awards and Honors

TJX/Feldberg Chair in Computer Science (2009)

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (1978 - 1979)

Courses Taught

COSI	101a	Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence
COSI	112a	Modal, Temporal, and Spatial Logic for Language
COSI	114b	Fundamentals of Computational Linguistics
COSI	135b	Computational Semantics
COSI	216a	Topics in Natural Language Processing
LING	130a	Formal Semantics: Truth, Meaning, and Language

Scholarship

Pustejovsky, James and Elisabetta Jezek. An Introduction to Generative Lexicon Theory. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2012. (forthcoming)

Pustejovsky, James and Anna Rumshisky. "Computational Models of the Lexicon." Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science (2011). (forthcoming)

James Pustejovsky, Anna Rumshisky, Olga Batiukova, Jessica L. Moszkowicz. "Annotation of Compositional Operations with GLML." Computing Meaning, Volume 4. Ed. Harry Bunt. Springer, 2013

James Pustejovsky, Jessica Moszkowicz, Marc Verhagen. "A Linguistically Grounded Annotation Language for Spatial Information." ATALA: Association pour la Traitment Automatique des Langues 53. 2 (2013): 87-113.

Olga Babko-Malaya, Adam Meyers, James Pustejovsky and Marc Verhagen. "Modeling Debate within a Scientific Community." International Conference on Social Intelligence and Technology 2013 (SOCIETY2013), State College, Pennsylvania. May 8 -9, 2013.

Olga Babko-Malaya, Patrick Thomas, Daniel Hunter, Adam Meyers, James Pustejovsky, Marc Verhagen and Gregory Amis. "Characterizing Communities of Practice in Emerging Science and Technology Fields." International Conference on Social Intelligence and Technology 2013 (SOCIETY2013), State College, Pennsylvania. May 8 -9, 2013.

Pustejovsky, James and Zachary Yocum. "Capturing Motion in ISO-SpaceBank." Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, Potsdam, Germany. March 2013.

Pustejovsky, James, Pierrette Bouillon, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki, Chungmin Lee. Advances in Generative Lexicon Theory. Springer, 2013.

Pustejovsky, James. "Inference Patterns with Intensional Adjectives." Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, Potsdam, Germany. March 2013.

Pustejovsky, James. "Invited Talk: The Role of Coercion in Language and Thought." AESLA, Association of Spanish Applied Linguistics. La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands. April 18, 2013.

Pustejovsky, James. "The Role of Coercion in Language and Thought." AESLA, Association of Spanish Applied Linguistics, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands. April 18, 2013.

Anna Rumshisky, Nick Botchan, Sophie Kushkuley, and James Pustejovsky. "Word Sense Inventories by Non-experts." Language Resource and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Istanbul, Turkey. ELRA, May 2012.

Anna Rumshisky, Nick Botchan, Sophie Kushkuley, and Pustejovsky, James. "Word Sense Inventories by Non-experts." Language Resources and Evaluation, Istanbul, Turkey. ELRA, May 22-26, 2012.

DC Brock, O Babko-Malaya, J Pustejovsky, P Thomas, S Stromsten, F Barlos. "Applied Actant-Network Theory: Toward the Automated Detection of Technoscientific Emergence from Full-Text Publications and Patents." 2012 AAAI Fall Symposium Series, Washington D.C.. AAAI Press, 2012.

I Drašković, J Pustejovsky, R Schreuder. "Adjective-Noun Combinations and the Generative Lexicon." Advances in Generative Lexicon Theory. Ed. Pustejovsky, J., P. Bouillon, H. Isahara, K. Kanzaki, and C. Lee. Springer, 2012

Inderjeet Mani and James Pustejovsky. "Qualitative modeling of spatial prepositions and motion expressions: Tutorial Abstract and Material." Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Jeju-do, South Korea. July 2012.

Inderjeet Mani and James Pustejovsky. Interpreting Motion: Grounded Representations for Spatial Language. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Inderjeet Mani and Pustejovsky, James. Interpreting Motion in Language. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2012.

James Pustejovsky and Amber Stubbs. Natural language annotation for machine learning. O'Reilly Media, 2012.

James Pustejovsky and Jessica Moszkowicz. "The role of model testing in standards development: The case of iso-space." Language Resource and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Istanbul, Turkey. May 2012.

Marc Verhagen and James Pustejovsky. "The TARSQI Toolkit." Language Resource and Evaluation, Istanbul, Turkey. ELRA, May 2012.

Nicholas Asher and James Pustejovsky. "A type composition logic for generative lexicon." Advances in Generative Lexicon Theory. Ed. Pustejovsky, J., P. Bouillon, H. Isahara, K. Kanzaki, and C. Lee. Springer, 2012

Pustejovsky, James and Amber Stubbs. Natural Language Annotation and Machine Learning. O'Reilly Publishers, 2012.

Pustejovsky, James and Jessica Moszkowicz. "The Role of Model Testing in Standards Development: The Case of ISO-Space." Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Istanbul, Turkey. ELRA Publications, May 22-26, 2012.

Pustejovsky, James, Jessica L. Moszkowicz, and Marc Verhagen. The Current Status of ISO-Space. Proc. of Interoperability and Semantic Annotation (ISA). Istanbul, Turkey: 2012.

Pustejovsky, James. "Invited Talk: Locating Events in Time and Space." TIMELing. University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland. October 13, 2012.

Pustejovsky, James. "Invited Talk: Temporal Relations, Annotation, and ISO-TimeML." I2b2 Academic Users Group. Children's Hospital, Boston, MA. July 24, 2012.

Pustejovsky, James. "Invited Talk: The Function of Space and the Space of Function." Semantic Representations in the Blind. University of Pisa Pisa, Italy. October 5, 2012.

Pustejovsky, James. "Keynote Talk: Dynamic Extensions to the Theory of Event Structure." First Workshop on Generative Lexicon for Asian Languages (GLAL). Bali, Indonesia. November 7, 2012.

Pustejovsky, James. "Representing Spatial Information in Language." Fred Jelenik Seminar Series. Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. October 8, 2012.

Pustejovsky, James. "Sourcing from the Madding Crowd." People’s Web meets NLP, ACL, Jeju-do, South Korea. 2012.

Pustejovsky, James. "The Semantics of Functional Spaces." Practical Theories and Empirical Practice: Facets of a Complex Interaction. Ed. Andrea Schalley. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012

Pustejovsky, James. "The role of linguistic models and language annotation in feature selection for machine learning." The Sixth Linguistic Annotation Workshop of ACL, Jeju-do, South Korea. July 2012.

Pustejovsky, James. "Type Theory and Lexical Decomposition." Advances in Generative Lexicon Theory. Ed. Pustejovsky, J., P. Bouillon, H. Isahara, K. Kanzaki, and C. Lee. Springer, 2012

Pustejovsky, James. "Where Things Happen: On the Semantics of Event Localization." 3rd Workshop on Computational Models of Spatial Language Interpretation and Generation (CoSLI-3), Potsdam, Germany. March 2012.

Sauri, Roser and Pustejovsky, James. "Are You Sure That This Happened? Assessing the Factuality Degree of Events in Text." Computational Linguistics 35. 1 (2012): 1-39.

Sauri, Roser and Pustejovsky, James. "Are you sure that this happened? assessing the factuality degree of events in text." Computational Linguistics 38. 2 (2012): 261-299.

UzZaman, N., H. Llorens, J. F. Allen, L. Derczynski, M. Verhagen, and J. Pustejovsky. "TempEval-3: Evaluating Events, Time Expressions, and Temporal Relations." arXiv arXiv.1206.5333v1 (2012)

Verhagen, Marc and Pustejovsky, James. "The TARSQI Toolkit." Language Resources and Evaluation, Istanbul, Turkey. ELRA, May 22-26, 2012.

Kiyong Lee, Alex C. Fang and James Pustejovsky. Multilingual Verification of ISO-Space: An Emerging Annotation Scheme for Spatial Information in Language. Proc. of Semantic Annotation for Computational Linguistic Resources. Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA: 2011.

Marc Verhagen, James Pustejovsky, Ronald Taylor and Antonio Sanfilippo. Modular Semantic Tagging of Medline Abstracts and its Use in Inferring Regulatory Networks. Proc. of Semantic Annotation for Computational Linguistic Resources. Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA: IEEE Press, 2011.

Pustejovsky, James and Amber Stubbs. "Increasing Informativeness in Temporal Annotation." Linguistic Annotation Workshop V (LAW-V), Portland, Oregon. ACL, June 2011.

Pustejovsky, James and Elisabetta Jezek. Scale Shifting and Compositionality. Proc. of 'Scalarity in Verb-Based Constructions. Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany: 2011.

Pustejovsky, James and Jessica Moszkowicz. "The Qualitative Spatial Dynamics of Motion in Language." Spatial Cognition and Computation 11. 1 (2011): 15-44.

Pustejovsky, James, Jessica Moszkowicz, and Marc Verhagen. "ISO-Space: The Annotation of Spatial Information in Language." ISA-6: ACL-ISO International Workshop on Semantic Annotation, Oxford, England. January, 2011.

Pustejovsky, James, Marc Verhagen, Anthony Stefanidis, Caixia Wang. Geolocating Orientational Descriptions of Landmark Configurations. Proc. of Computational Models of Spatial Language and Interpretation and Generation. Boston, MA, USA: 2011.

Pustejovsky, James, Markus Werning, Wolfram Hinzen, and Edouard Machery. "Co-compositionality." The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality. 2011.

Pustejovsky, James. "Coercion in a General Theory of Argument Selection." Linguistics 49 6. 6 (2011): 1401–1431.

Ronald C. Taylor, Antonio Sanfilippo, Jason E. McDermott, Bob Baddeley, Roderick Riensche and Russell Jensen, Marc Verhagen and James Pustejovsky. "Enriching regulatory networks by bootstrap learning using optimised GO-based gene similarity and gene links mined from PubMed abstracts." International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design 4. 1 (2011).

Stubbs, Amber and James Pustejovsky. "Annotation of Discharge Summaries Based on Selection Criteria." 2011 Proceedings of AMIA Summit on Clinical Research Informatics, San Francisco, CA. AMIA, 2011.

Stubbs, Amber and Pustejovsky, James. Annotation of Discharge Summaries Based on Selection Criteria. Proc. of AMIA Summit on Clinical Research Informatics. San Francisco, CA: 2011.

Cieri, Christopher; Choukri, Khalid; Calzolari, Nicoletta; Langendoen, D. Terence; Leveling Johannes, Palmer Martha, Ide Nancy, Pustejovsky James. "A Road Map for Interoperable Language Resource Metadata." Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010), Malta. May, 2010.

Harry Bunt and James Pustejovsky. "Annotating Temporal and Event Quantification." 5th International Semantic Annotation Workshop, Hong Kong. Jan. 15-17, 2010.

Im, Seohyun and James Pustejovsky. "Annotating Lexically Entailed Subevents for Textual Inference Tasks." FLAIRS 23, Datona Beach, Florida. May 17-20, 2010.

Moszkowicz, Jessica and James Pustejovsky. "ISO-Space: Towards a spatial annotation framework for natural language." Processing Romanian in Multilingual, Interoperational and Scalable Environments. Bucharest, Romania:, 2010

Pustejovsky, James, Jessica Moszkowicz, and Marc Verhagen. "The Recognition and Interpretation of Motion in Language." Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. vol. 11 Ed. Alexander Gelbuth. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2010

Pustejovsky, James, Kiyong Lee, Harry Bunt, and Laurent Romary. "ISO-TimeML: An International Standard for Semantic Annotation." LREC 2010, Malta. May 18-21, 2010.

Pustejovsky, James, Kiyong Lee, Harry Bunt, and Laurent Romary. "ISO-TimeML: An International Standard for Semantic Annotation." LREC, Malta. May 18-21, 2010.

Pustejovsky, James, Patrick Hogan. "Qualia Roles." The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Science. 2010.

Pustejovsky, James, Patrick Hogan. "The Structure of Meaning." The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences.. 2010.

Im, Seohyun and James Pustejovsky. "Annotating event implicatures for textual inference tasks." Generative Approaches to the Lexicon GL2009, Pisa, Italy. Sept. 17-19, 2009.

Pustejovsky, James and Marc Verhagen. "SemEval-2010 Task 13: Evaluating Events, Time Expressions, and Temporal Relations (TempEval-2)." Workshop on Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions (SEW-2009), Boulder, CO. Association for Computational Linguistics, June, 2009.

Pustejovsky, James, A. Rumshisky, J. Moszkowicz, and O. Batiukova. "GLML: Annotating Argument Selection and Coercion." International Workshop on Computational Semantics, IWCS-8, Tilburg, The Netherlands. January 2009.

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