Project Grant 2525735
- This Project Grant award of $249,993 from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports a research project at Georgetown University to examine language data and advance language infrastructure, knowledge, and theory. The project provides empirical data for developing and testing theories of language, which are important for understanding human cognition, and trains students in these methods. The research focuses on documenting and...
- This $449,275 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to advance the scientific understanding of human language processing and change. The project, led by the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), combines expertise from linguistics, psychology, and computational approaches to investigate how language users integrate general language constraints and verb-specific preferences...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $993,050 to Stanford University from June 15, 2022 through November 30, 2025. The funding supports research to develop natural language processing and qualitative spatial reasoning techniques to extract, locate, and contextualize imprecise place-related information from extensive textual corpora,...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program) provides $335,000.00 to Northwestern University to conduct collaborative research on leveraging smart objects and AI for understanding the role of language in spatial thinking and learning. The 3-year project, starting on Oct 1, 2025, explores how young children build spatial thinking skills during play and how conversations with parents can influence that...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) supports research into probing the inner workings of artificial intelligence (AI) systems and comparing them to human cognition during speech recognition. The $50,000 award to the University of Southern California (USC) will fund the development of novel mathematical models and experimental methods to examine how AI...
- This $244,516 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports a research project to document and analyze three languages with unusual grammatical structures. The goal is to expand existing language databases and advance the understanding of language evolution, structure, and function through comparative analyses. Key project outputs will include grammars, lexicons, and transcribed texts, leveraging...
- This $116,797 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to document, analyze, and revitalize a contact language that has undergone significant grammatical change. The project will record 40 hours of natural speech through sociolinguistic interviews and linguistic elicitation, transcribe and annotate the data, and develop an open-access digital corpus. Grounded in theories of...
- This $228,000.00 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research project at Northwestern University examining the relationship between information structure and syntax across different languages. The three-year project, running from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, aims to advance psycholinguistic research on how people process information and use language in real-world...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award provides $160,000 in funding from September 2024 to August 2026 to an early career researcher. The grant supports an investigation into the role of non-systematic structures in natural language, with the goal of better understanding language learning and use. Specifically, the research will develop a novel measure of systematicity in language using information theory tools, and then...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program examines the relationship between information structure and syntax across diverse languages. The $237,402 award to The Ohio State University will investigate how context, word order, and emphasis affect language processing and understanding in conversational settings. The research methodology utilizes cognitive data, including eye-tracking, to study how...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) provides $175,000.00 in funding to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) from August 15, 2025 to July 31, 2028. The award supports collaborative research to investigate how human languages express spatial relationships using deictic words (e.g., "this," "that," "here," "there"). The project integrates cross-linguistic experimental data with information-theoretic computational models to explore how people balance accuracy and simplicity when using spatial language. Behavioral experiments, geospatial analysis, and machine learning methods are used to study the cognitive and environmental pressures that shape how speakers refer to locations and objects. The research aims to improve the ability of artificial intelligence (AI) systems to smoothly communicate with humans about spatial information, which is an important but challenging aspect of human-AI interaction.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $175.0k | 8/7/25 |