Welcome!
I have been working for the FrameNet Project
at ICSI in various
capacities since 1997. I worked briefly as a programmer and
linguistic consultant in private industry in the spring and summer of
2000, and returned to work full-time for FrameNet in the fall of 2000,
serving as project manager since then. It is a pleasure to work on a
daily with a group of talented linguists and computer scientists on a
project which, we feel, can make a major contribution to natural
language processing and lexicography. Our current goal is to
clean up
the data for roughly 7,400 words in 480 frames currently in our
database and to release this data to researchers.
I received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from U.C. Berkeley in 1999, with a
dissertation on lexical semantics specifically
the question of how to
distinguish and describe the senses of the English verb see. Along
the way, I also worked on the phonetics of Uighur, a Turkic language
of northwestern China.
In former lives, I have been a teacher and administrator in programs
for English as a foreign/second language in Taiwan, Japan, China, and
the U.S.
Presentations and Publications
Collin Baker
Project Manager
FrameNet
Project
e-mail can be addressed to collinb here at ICSI.Berkeley.edu
Last Updated 2003.09.19