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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations
Regional Initiatives
LabEx EFL (Empirical Foundations of Linguistics) (2011 – 2021)
Participants : Laurence Danlos, Benoît Sagot, Chloé Braud, Marie-Hélène Candito, Benoît Crabbé, Pascal Denis, Charlotte Roze, Pierre Magistry, Djamé Seddah, Juliette Thuilier, Éric Villemonte de La Clergerie.
Linguistics and related disciplines addressing language have achieved much progress in the last two decades but improved interdisciplinary communication and interaction can significantly boost this positive trend. The LabEx (excellency cluster) EFL (Empirical Foundations of Linguistics), launched in 2011 and headed by Jacqueline Vaissière, opens new perspectives by adopting an integrative approach. It groups together some of the French leading research teams in theoretical and applied linguistics, in computational linguistics, and in psycholinguistics. Through collaborations with prestigious multidisciplinary institutions (CSLI, MIT, Max Planck Institute, SOAS...) the project aims at contributing to the creation of a Paris School of Linguistics, a novel and innovative interdisciplinary site where dialog among the language sciences can be fostered, with a special focus on empirical foundations and experimental methods and a valuable expertise on technology transfer and applications.
Alpage is a very active member of the LabEx EFL together with other linguistic teams we have been increasingly collaborating with: LLF (University Paris 7 & CNRS) for formal linguistics, LIPN (University Paris 13 & CNRS) for NLP, LPNCog (University Paris 5 & CNRS) LSCP (ENS, EHESS & CNRS) for psycholinguistics, MII (University Paris 4 & CNRS) for Iranian and Indian studies. Alpage resources and tools have already proven relevant for research at the junction of all these areas of linguistics, thus drawing a preview of what the LabEx is about: experimental linguistics (see Section 4.6 ). Moreover, the LabEx provides Alpage with opportunities for collaborating with new teams, e.g., on language resource development with descriptive linguists (see 6.5 for example). In 2013, two post-docs funded by Labex EFL have worked at Alpage (Yves Scherrer) or jointly at Alpage and LLF (Margaret Grant).
Benoît Sagot is the head one of the 7 autonomous scientific “strands” of the LabEx EFL, namely the strand 6 on “Language Resources”. Marie-Hélène Candito and Benoît Crabbé are respectively deputy-head of strands 5 on “Computational semantic analysis” and 2 on “Experimental grammar from a cross-linguistic perspective”. Several project members are in charge of research operations within these 3 strands.