Yorick Wilks is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield, where he directs the Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing. He has worked mainly with the Preference Semantics which is a set of formal procedures for representing the meaning structure of natural language.
He is also a member of the American and European Associations for Artificial Intelligence of the British Computer Society, where he works with the idea of computers having a recognizable personality. He has won many prizes because of his works on this area, such as the Elected to UK Computing Research Council, in 2004.
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