Eugene Charniak
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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 has published four books:
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
and Cognitive Science
Cognitive science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...
professor at Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
. 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
Part-of-speech tagging
In corpus linguistics, part-of-speech tagging , also called grammatical tagging or word-category disambiguation, is the process of marking up a word in a text as corresponding to a particular part of speech, based on both its definition, as well as its context—i.e...
, 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 has published four books:
- Statistical Language Learning, Cambridge: MIT Press (1993)
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (with Drew McDermottDrew McDermottDrew McDermott is a Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. He was born in 1949, and lived in the Midwestern United States , for four years, and in Brazil .-Education:...
), Reading MA: Addison-Wesley (1985) - Artificial Intelligence Programming (now in a second edition) (with Chris Riesbeck, Drew McDermottDrew McDermottDrew McDermott is a Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. He was born in 1949, and lived in the Midwestern United States , for four years, and in Brazil .-Education:...
, and James Meehan), Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (1980, 1987) - Computational Semantics, (with Yorick Wilks), Amsterdam: North-Holland (1976)