Section: Other Grants and Activities

International Initiatives

ISO subcommittee TC37 SC4 on “Language Resources Management”

Participant : Éric Villemonte de La Clergerie.

The participation of Alpage to French Technolangue action Normalangue has resulted in a strong implication in ISO subcommittee TC37 SC4 on “Language Resources Management” (http://www.tc37sc4.org/ ). Éric de La Clergerie has participated to ISO events and has played a role of expert (in particular on morpho-syntactic annotations [MAF], feature structures [FSR & new FSD], and on the new work item on syntactic annotations [SynAF]).

NSF project “CAREER: Automaton Theories of Human Sentence Comprehension” (2009 – 2010)

Participant : Éric Villemonte de La Clergerie.

Éric de La Clergerie is involved in a new collaboration in the recently funded NSF project “CAREER: Automaton Theories of Human Sentence Comprehension” led by John Hale from Cornell University. This project aims to explore plausible psycholinguistic models, in particular based on automata such as Thread Automata.