Research Activities

Research Activities

Research group

Dr. Lavid is the team leader of a research group at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) entitled:

Functional Linguistics (English-Spanish) and its applications

The group aims at investigating different linguistic phenomena of the English and Spanish languages from a functional and contrastive perspective, using an empirical methodology based on a combination of corpus-based and corpus-driven explorations. Application areas include second language teaching and acquisition, translation and contrastive analysis, and language technologies.

Main research areas:

Dr. Lavid’s research can be organized into three principal directions:

§ Corpus Linguistics and Language Technologies from a functional perspective

§ Contrastive Linguistics and Language Typology

§ Discourse and Grammar Processing

Research Projects:

1. Financed by European institutions

§ DANDELION (Discourse Functions and Discourse Representation: An Empirically and Linguistically Motivated Interdisciplinary -Oriented Approach to Natural Language Texts) European project financed by the Commission of the E.U under the ESPRIT Programme (Basic Research BR Project 6665). Participation as team leader and site manager of the UCM site (1992-1996).

§ GIST (Generating InStructional Text) European project financed by the Commission of the EU under the Linguistic Research and Engineering Programme (LRE Project 062-09). Participation as team leader and site manager of the UCM site (1993-1996).

§ ADVANCED COMPUTING IN THE HUMANITIES (Aco*Hum) European SOCRATES/ERASMUS Thematic Network Project 26030-CP-1-96-NO-ETN. European project financed by the Commission of the EU. Participation as team leader and site manager of the UCM site (1996-1999).

§ SFRC (Systemic-functional Research Community on Ideational and Interpersonal Grammar) (Scientific Research Network WO.018.00N), financed by the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (Belgium). Participation as invited research partner from the UCM (2000-2005).

2. Financed by Spanish institutions

Creación y validación de descripciones contrastivas (inglés-español) a través del análisis y la anotación de corpus: aspectos lingüísticos, metodológicos y computacionales. Project number FFI2008-03384/FILO, financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. Team leader (2009-2012).

Anotación lingüística de textos con fines didácticos y computacionales. Project financed within the Programa de creación y consolidación de grupos de investigación Universidad Complutense-Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid. Team leader (January-December 2008).

Lingüística de corpus y aprendizaje contrastivo online (inglés-español) (Corpus linguistics and online contrastive learning). Project financed within the Programa de creación y consolidación de grupos de investigación Universidad Complutense-Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid. Team leader (January-December 2007).

Compilación y explotación de textos para el aprendizaje contrastivo y la traducción inglés-español en el Campus Virtual. (Corpus collection and exploitation for contrastive and translation learning). Reference number: PIMCD 111, financed by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Team leader (March 2006 – November 2007).

Nuevas Tecnologías aplicadas al estudio funcional de la lengua: materiales para una docencia de calidad en el Campus Virtual. (New Technologies applied to the functional study of languages: resources for quality teaching at the UCM virtual campus). Reference number: PIMCD 372, financed by Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Team leader (March-November 2005).

Estudio contrastivo de experiencias en la aplicación de las NTIC a la enseñanza / aprendizaje en Filología. Reference number: PIE 2003/34, financed by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Participation as invited research fellow (January 2004- March 2005).

Explotación computacional y didáctica de corpora lingüísticos para el estudio y la enseñanza de lexicogramáticas contrastivas. Project number : 06/0084/1999, financed by the Consejería de Educación de la Comunidad de Madrid. Team leader (2000 - 2001).

3. Financed by USA institutions

§ Linguistic and Computational Aspects of Rhetorical Structure Theory. Research work within the project entitled “Text Structure Planning”, financed by the US Department of Defense Advanced Research

Projects Agency (DARPA) and developed at the ISI (Information Sciences Institute) of the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, USA). Reference number: MDA-C-90-446. Participation as invited research fellow by the Natural Language Research Group directed by Dr. Eduard Hovy (1990-1991).

§ Flexible Semantic-Based Natural Language Generation using Systemic Linguistics. Research work within the project entitled “Text Structure Planning”, financed by the US Department of Defense Advanced Research

Projects Agency (DARPA) and developed at the ISI (Information Sciences Institute) of the University of Southern

California (Los Angeles, USA). Reference number: DARPA AO 8073. Participation as invited research fellow by the

Natural Language Research Group directed by Dr. Eduard Hovy (1990-1991).

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