James Pustejovsky

James Pustejovsky is a TJX Feldberg professor of computer science at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. His expertises are on Theoretical and computational modeling of language, specifically: Computational linguistics, Lexical semantics, Knowledge representation, temporal reasoning and Extraction. His main topic of research is Natural language processing.

Pustejovsky proposed Generative Lexicon theory in lexical semantics. His other interests include temporal reasoning, events, information extraction, computational linguistics.

Current research

Pustejovsky's research group's current projects include the TimeML and Medstract projects. The TimeML project is attempting to create a standard markup language for temporal events in a document. The Medstract project attempts to extract information from medical documents using current natural language processing technology.

External links

• Professor Pustejovsky's website
• Brandeis University Faulty Guide
• Pustejovsky's book on the Generative Lexicon
• The TimeML project
• The Medstract project