Christiane Fellbaum

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Christiane Fellbaum, born in Braunschweig, has lived since 1969 in the United States. After graduating from Princeton University with a PhD in linguistics, she became a part of the Cognitive Science department under George A. Miller and has played an active role in the development of WordNet. In 2001, through the gift of the Wolfgang-Paul Prize of the Humboldt-Foundation, she started the 'Kollokationen im Wörterbuch' project at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. She is a founder and presidnet of the Global WordNet Association that guides the constructions of lexical databases in many languages around the globe.