Eugene Charniak, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Eugene Charniak

American computer scientist

Date of Birth: 02-Jun-1946

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Profession: engineer, computer scientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Eugene Charniak

  • 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 and awarded the 2011 Calvin & Rose G Hoffman Prize.
  • In 2011, he was named a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
  • 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 five books: Introduction to Deep Learning, Cambridge: MIT Press (2019) Statistical Language Learning, Cambridge: MIT Press (1993) Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (with Drew McDermott), Reading MA: Addison-Wesley (1985) Artificial Intelligence Programming (now in a second edition) (with Chris Riesbeck, Drew McDermott, and James Meehan), Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (1980, 1987) Computational Semantics, (with Yorick Wilks), Amsterdam: North-Holland (1976)

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