James Kilbury Professor of Computational Linguistics      retired / im Ruhestand     Prof. i.R. Dr. James Kilbury  Computerlinguistik Institut für Sprache und Information Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf  Universitätsstr. 1  D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany

TEACHING

• Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft  (General Linguistics - department information)
• my courses

My  interests centered on the design and implementation of formalisms for the
representation of linguistic information, especially that involving morphology in parti-
cular and the lexicon in general. The research project Dynamic Extension of the
Lexicon dealt with the automatic acquisition and management of lexical information
about "unknown words" which may be encountered by a natural-language processing
system but are not explicitly included in its lexicon. Since its inception I was 
concerned with the language DATR for lexical knowledge representation. DATR
employs nonmonotonic inheritance in order to cope with scales of  regularity, sub-
regularity, and irregularity, which were investigated in my project Modelling Sub-
regularity in the Lexicon (2000-2002).  I later concentrated on the use  of FST for
historical phonology and Formal Concept Analysis for the classification of languages.

• research projects in FOR 600 Functional Concepts and Frames  (2005 - 2011)            
            Automatic Classification of Nouns according to Concept Type (project A5)           
            Formal Modelling of Frames and  Concept Types (project B1, 2005 - 2008)
  

• research projects in Ontoverse (2.1 and 2.2)  (2005 - 2008)

• research projects  in  SFB 282 (1991 - 2002)
             D ynamic Extension of the Lexicon (project B3)     
             Modelling Subregularity in the Lexicon (project D5)  

• selected publications