Eugene Charniak

Eugene Charniak
Alma mater University of Chicago (A.B.)
M.I.T. (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
Fields Natural Language Processing
Institutions Brown University
Doctoral advisor Marvin Minsky[1]
Website cs.brown.edu/people/echarnia/

Eugene Charniak is a Computer Science and Cognitive Science professor at Brown University. He has an A.B. in Physics from The University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Computer Science. His research has always been in the area of language understanding or technologies which relate to it, such as knowledge representation, reasoning under uncertainty, and learning. Since the early 1990s he has been interested in statistical techniques for language understanding. His research in this area has included work in the subareas of part-of-speech tagging, probabilistic context-free grammar induction, and, more recently, syntactic disambiguation through word statistics, efficient syntactic parsing, and lexical resource acquisition through statistical means.

He is a Fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence and was previously a Councilor of the organization. He was also honored with the 2011 Association for Computational Linguistics Lifetime Achievement Award[2] and awarded the 2011 Calvin & Rose G Hoffman Prize. In 2011, he was named a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics.[3] In 2015, he won the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Classic Paper Award for a paper (“Statistical Parsing with a Context-Free Grammar and Word Statistics”) that he presented at the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 1997.

He has published four books:

  1. Statistical Language Learning, Cambridge: MIT Press (1993)
  2. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (with Drew McDermott), Reading MA: Addison-Wesley (1985)
  3. Artificial Intelligence Programming (now in a second edition) (with Chris Riesbeck, Drew McDermott, and James Meehan), Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (1980, 1987)
  4. Computational Semantics, (with Yorick Wilks), Amsterdam: North-Holland (1976)

References

  1. ↑ "Personal page for Marvin Minsky". web.media.mit.edu. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients". ACL wiki. ACL. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "ACL Fellows". ACL Wiki. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
Preceded by
William Aaron Woods		 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award
2011		 Succeeded by
Charles J. Fillmore


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