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Human Language Technologies (researchers) (Q1)

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As in every research, there are some researcher whose names are really well known among the research centres. Here we have two of them:

Martin Kay, a British researcher specially known for working in Computational linguistics. The first step he made as a researchers has been in the Cambridge Language Research Unity in 1958. Then he moved to the Rand corporation where he became head of linguistics and machine translations. He left this corporation behind in 1972 and joined the Department of Computer Science. In he joined the Stanford university as a half-time professor in linguistics, where he is currently working . Apart from this he is also a Honorary Professor of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University.

Among his achievements we can find the developement of chart parsing and functional unification grammar as well as contributions to the application of finite state automata in the fields of  computational phonology and morphology. He has also been regarded as a leading authorithy of machine translation.

Some of Martin Kay’s publications are:

  • Martin Kay: A life of Language. Computational Linguistics 31(4): 425-438 (2005)
  • Martin Kay: The Proper Place of Men and Machines in Language Translation. Machine Translation 12(1-2): 3-23 (1997)
  • Martin Kay: Chart Generation. ACL 1996: 200-204
    Mark Johnson, Martin Kay: Parsing and Empty Nodes. Computational Linguistics 20(2): 289-300 (1994)
  • Ronald M. Kaplan, Martin Kay: Regular Models of Phonological Rule Systems. Computational Linguistics 20(3): 331-378 (1994)
  • Martin Kay: Nonconcatenative Finite-State Morphology. EACL 1987: 2-10(1987)
  • Martin Kay: Unification in Grammar. Natural Language Understanding and Natural Language Understanding Workshop (1984): 233-240

Yorick Wilks, a British Computer Scientist and at the same time, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sheffield, as well as a Senior Research Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute.

His professional life is quite wide but we can mention that he has been Head of Department of Computer Science (University of Sheffield, 1998 – 2002), Director at Computing Research Laboratory and Professor of Computer Science (New Mexico State University, 1985 – 1993), Professor of Computer Science (University of Essex, 1984 – 1985), Head of Department of Linguistics (University of Essex, 1980 – 1983), Professor of Linguistics (1978 – 1983), Research Associate and Lecturer at Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Stanford University, California, 1970 – 1974)…

Some of his publications are:

  • Yorick Wilks: What would a Wittgensteinian computational linguistics be like. AISB Convention 2008: 1-6
  • Yorick Wilks: On Whose Shoulders? Computational Linguistics 34(4): 471-486 (2008)
  • Yorick Wilks: The Semantic Web: Apotheosis of Annotation, but What Are Its Semantics? IEEE Intelligent Systems 23(3): 41-49 (2008)
  • Yorick Wilks: Karen Spärck Jones (1935-2007). IEEE Intelligent Systems 22(3): 8-9 (2007)
  • Yorick Wilks: Getting Meaning into the Machine. IEEE Intelligent Systems 21(3): 70-71 (2006)
  • Yorick Wilks: IR and AI: Traditions of Representation and Anti-representation in Information Processing. ECIR 2004: 12-26
  • Yorick Wilks: Artificial Companions. MLMI 2004: 36-45
  • Yorick Wilks, Roberta Catizone: Can We Make Information Extraction More Adaptive? SCIE 1999: 1-16
  • Dan Fass, Yorick Wilks: Preference Semantics, III-Formedness, and Metaphor. American Journal of Computational Linguistics 9(3-4): 178-187 (1983)
  • Yorick Wilks: Language, Vision and Metaphor. Artif. Intell. Rev. 9(4-5): 273-289 (1995)

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