Current and Past Projects


Lexical Semantics of Spatial Relations

Using vignette semantics to represent the linguistic expression of spatial relations; developing a declarative resource that formally documents how a language expresses spatial relations.


Detecting Hedging in Text

Using crowdsourcing to obtain hedging annotations; using automatic hedge detection to facilitate committed belief tagging.


Text-to-Scene for Field Linguistics

Adapting WordsEye to be used as a tool for field linguists, currently focusing on the Australian aboriginal language Arrernte.

More info on the text-to-scene project


Emotion Detection

Using Livejournal and Wordseye as source corpora, we detect emotion based on text.


Contact Information

Email: mulinski [at] cs [dot] columbia [dot] edu