André
WŁODARCZYK
Professor emeritus at Charles de Gaulle University (Lille 3)
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Forum at Sorbonne: New
Standards for Language Studies
André Włodarczyk (Ph. D. and Habilitation), formerly, researcher and senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research - CNRS (1979-1992), full professor of Japanese Linguistics at Stendhal University - Grenoble 3 (1992-2000) and Japanese Linguistics and Natural Language Processing at Charles de Gaulle University - Lille 3 (2000-2010).
Invited lectures at the research and academic institutions in JAPAN: Fukuoka (Kyushu Technology Univ.), Nara (Advanced Technology Univ.), Tokyo (Waseda Univ. and Sophia Univ.), Tsukuba (Tsukuba Univ.), Sapporo (Hokkaido Univ.), in FRANCE: (CNRS, Sorbonne Univ. and Grenoble Univ.), in GERMANY: Stuttgart Technology Univ. and Dortmund Univ., in POLAND: Warsaw Univ., Polish Academy of Sciences - Warsaw & Cracow, Polish-Japanese Computer Science Univ. and Jagiellonski Univ., in RUSSIA: Russian Academy of Sciences - Moscow, and in USA: Princeton Univ. and State Univ. of New York at Albany.
His research as academic was affiliated to Paris Sorbonne University (1) Institute for Applied Social and Human Sciences - ISHA and (2) Centre for Theoretical and Applied Linguistics - CELTA).
André Włodarczyk’s research on the Japanese language shed new light on syntax ("wa" and "ga" particles) and grammatical categories of person and politeness (respect).
Since 1999, his main preoccupations are (1) formalization and logical reconstruction of linguistic theories of grammar and (2) automation of research tasks in the fields of linguistic information representation.
His main achievements are: the Distributed Grammar Programme and Interactive Linguistics.
He has a dual Polish-French citizenship.
What
is the DISTRIBUTED
GRAMMAR Programme ?
On top of logical inference (reason), such
psychological factors as attention, intention and emotion
interplay as much in the processes of meaning creation as in
that of communication. The
Programme of the Distributed
Grammar (defined as a highly modular model of language
processing in human brain) is therefore a complex view of
language which emerged as the result of a multi-level
investigation into the sequential (linear) ordering of the
constituents of linguistic utterances focusing on the fact
that the sequential nature of language reflects
the semantico-pragmatic overt (explicitly expressed,
cf. explicature) and covert (default, cf. implicature)
components of communicated information.
The
Distributed Grammar Programme is an integrated framework for
Associative Semantics (AS) and Meta-Informative Centering
(MIC) theory.
What
is INTERACTIVE
LINGUISTICS ?
More and more linguists develop today an interest in using
and applying computational intelligence to their research on
languages. The methods of Interactive
Linguistics are aimed at describing natural
languages using data mining techniques elaborated within the
framework of the new paradigm of computation known as
Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). Indeed, it is
important to build or logically reconstruct (enhance,
integrate and formalize) theories of language in order to
conceive meta-theoretical foundations which are necessary
for making further progress in language studies. Interactive
Linguistics is an attempt to provide the best research
standards for the linguistic science following the example
of building the semantic web in the field of information
technology (IT).However, Interactive Linguistics (IL) differs from Corpus Linguistics and Text Mining, because it is concerned with “in-depth” research on linguistic phenomena, while Corpus Linguistics and Text Mining frameworks cover “in-large” investigations. Interactive Linguistic methods include as well initial theoretical assumptions as interdisciplinary meta-theoretical knowledge for describing linguistic data using mostly attributive knowledge.
The MIC (Meta-Informative Centering) theory together with AS (Associative Semantics) seem to be a good theoretical framework for interactive research. As a matter of fact, the foundations of [Distributed Grammar], an integrative framework for MIC and AS, are been elaborated partly interactively using data mining functions which are implemented in [Semana].
For more information, please visit the archive web pages at Sorbonne (CELTA).
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