MELODI

Laure Vieu

CNRS researcher (Chargée de Recherches CNRS), HDR

Member of the Models and Engineering for Language, Ontology and DIscourse group of IRIT at Université Paul Sabatier (formerly Logic, Interaction, Language, and Computation group), within IRIT's research theme Raisonnement et Décision

Associated to the Laboratory for Applied Ontology of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology of CNR , situated in Trento , Italy

2004-2011: Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory on Interacting Knowledge Systems (ILIKS) , a joint virtual laboratory (Laboratoire Européen Associé, a CNRS initiative) between IRIT-CNRS, ISTC-CNR, and the University of Trento.

Member of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) Executive Council, Treasurer

• RESEARCH INTERESTS:
• formal semantics
• lexical semantics: spatial prepositions, locative adverbials, discourse connectives, part-whole relations
• discourse and dialogue structure, rhetorical relations, speech acts in discourse, discourse annotation in corpus
  
• semantics-pragmatics interface, Segmented Discourse Representation Theory
• formal ontology
  
• representation of space in axiomatic theories: mereotopologies and mereogeometries
• ontology of action and interaction
• ontology of social reality: roles, concepts, artefacts, organizations, commitments
• operative methods for enforcing the coherence of ontologies and lexical resources
• spatial cognition and psycholinguistic experiments
• language-vision relationships
• categorisation of spatial entities


• Selected Papers (with files)
• All Publications (since 1995)

Contact

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                                            France


Email:  Laure.Vieu@irit.fr (or: vieu@irit.fr)  
WWW:    http://www.irit.fr/~Laure.Vieu