MARTIN KAY
Kay was responsible for introducing the notion of chart parsing in computational linguistics, and the notion of unification in linguistics generally. With Ron Kaplan, he pioneered finite-state morphology. He has been a longtime contributor to, and critic of, work on machine translation. Permanent chairman of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics, Kay was a Research Fellow at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center until 2002. Gothenburg University has made him an honorary Filosofi Doktor.
YORICK WILKS
He is a techer in the University of Sheffield. He has made courses and series of lectures delivered in functional programming languages, artificial intelligence, intelligent knowledge-based systems, research in computational linguistics, theoretical linguistics, machine translation, philosophy of language, foundations of artificial intelligence, and logic and language.New first year Undergraduate Artificial Intelligence Course from 2001. He has also published many books, such as : Machine Translation: its scope and limits, Readings in the Lexicon and Readings in Machine Translation. He has also won many prices: 2008 Zampolli Prize (ELDA, awarded at LREC-08 in Marrakech, Morocco), 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award (ACL, awarded at ACL-08 in Columbus, OH), 2006 Visiting Professor, University of Oxford (2006-)…
*Martin Kay (2004, October 21) In Stanford Department of Linguistics, Retrieved 11:41, March 18, 2009 from: http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/people/pages/kay.shtml
*Yorick Wilks (2007, 17 April)In University of Sheffield, Department of Computer Science, Retrieved 11:50, March 18, 2009 from: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick/cv.html
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