Together with Miller and his team, she was a creator of WordNet,[1] a large lexical database that serves as a widely used resource in computational linguistics and natural language processing.
[2] She is a founder and president of the Global WordNet Association, which guides the construction of lexical databases in many languages.
She used her award money (1.53 million Euros) to construct an electronic database of German idioms ('Kollokationen im Wörterbuch'), a three-year project that she led at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
[6][7] The goal of the project, which focused on collocations that combine nouns with verbs, was to analyze and record a wide range of German-language idioms.
[8] In 2006, she and WordNet collaborator George A. Miller were awarded the Antonio Zampolli Prize of the European Language Resources Association.