Martin Kay is a computer scientist and he’s professor of Computational Linguistics at Stanford University and also Honorary professor at Saarland University.
He was born in Great Britain and he studied at Trinity College, in Cambridge. While he was studying, he also started working in one of the first Computational Linguistics’ research centres, called Cambridge Language Research Unit, and he became one of the pioneers in Computational Linguistics and Machine Translation.
About two years later, he started working in the Rand Corporation, in Santa Monica (California) and he kept changing jobs for a while: He also was a researcher in the Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre, and he even joined Stanford University.
Some of the most important awards he’s won is an honorary Doctor of Philosophy from Gutenberg University and the 2005 Association for Computational Linguistics’, “Lifetime Achievement Award”. When he received this last award, he made one of his most important jobs, a speech called A life of Language, that can be found here.
Here is a list of the books he published in his life:
- 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.
He has also many other jobs in papers, but there are too many to put them all.
References:
- Martin Kay. (2008, June 7). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:30, March 15, 2009, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Kay
- Martin Kay. In Stanford University page. Retrieved 16:34, March 15, 2009, from: http://www.stanford.edu/~mjkay/
