He was born and raisen in Great Britain and he has beenn working as a teacher all his life in many different universities. He is a computer scientist known especially because he has excellent works about computatuinal linguistics and aldo because he is a pioneer of machine translation. He was responsible
for introducing the notion of chart parsing in computational linguistics, and the notion of unification in linguistics
generally.Linguistics and Information Science (with Karen Spark Jones), Academic Press, 1973.
- Natural Language in Information Science (edited with D. E. Walker and Hans Karlgren), Skriptor, Stockholm, 1977
- Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog (with John Mark Gawron and Peter Norwig), CSLI, Stanford California, 1994.
- An Introduction to Machine Translation. W. John Hutchins and Harold L. Somers. London: Academic Press, 1992.
- Handbook of Computational Linguistics (2003). Ruslan Mitkov (ed.). OUP 2003. Introduction.
Sources:
-Martin Kay. (2009). Profile at the Stanford University. Retrieved February 28, 2009. From: http://www.stanford.edu/~mjkay/
-Martin Kay. (2008, June 7). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 11:39, March 14, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martin_Kay&oldid=217746063
– Martin Kay.Stanford Linguistics(2004). Retrieves 12:42, March 14, 2009, from http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/people/pages/kay.shtml
