Department of Linguistics
Gemma Bel Enguix
Dr. Gemma Bel Enguix, a Lecturer in the Research Group in Mathematical Linguistics in Tarragona, Spain, is currently a Visiting Researcher in the GU Linguistics department. Gemma will be working with Dr. Inderjeet Mani on specific problems in the interpretation of temporal expressions in English and Spanish. Her research will include the evaluation of a computer program which helps determine the order of events in English news texts. She will also be collaborating with a team of researchers in the Linguistics department and the Medical Center on an NSF-funded text mining project aimed at identifying and linking protein names in the medical literature.
Jantima Eamanondh
Jantima Eamanondh is a visiting researcher for the academic year 2002-2003. She is a doctoral student in the Department of Linguistics, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Her research is focused on Thai political debates as a kind of social action which achieves a number of institutionally specific purposes, namely position-claiming, persuading, negotiating, agenda-setting and opinion building, usually along ideological or party lines. Her interest is in the relationship between such political debates and Thai sociocultural practices. She is approaching this research through the framework of Mediated Discourse Analysis and during this year is studying with Professor Ron Scollon.
Laura Sgarioto