André WŁODARCZYK
Professor
emeritus at Charles de Gaulle University (Lille 3)
Discussion Forum at Sorbonne:
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).