Richard H. Richens
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Richard H. Richens was the inventor of semantic nets for computers. While at the Cambridge Language Research Unit, in 1956 he created semantic nets as an "interlingua
" for machine translation
of natural languages. He was Director of the Commonwealth Bureau of Plant Breeding and Genetics 1964-1979 (also at Cambridge), which was part of the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux
, and he pioneered the creation of its bibliographic database. He was an expert on elm
s, publishing many papers on the subject.
Interlingua
Interlingua is an international auxiliary language , developed between 1937 and 1951 by the International Auxiliary Language Association...
" for machine translation
Machine translation
Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another.On a basic...
of natural languages. He was Director of the Commonwealth Bureau of Plant Breeding and Genetics 1964-1979 (also at Cambridge), which was part of the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux
CAB International
CAB International is a not-for-profit inter-governmental organisation based in the United Kingdom....
, and he pioneered the creation of its bibliographic database. He was an expert on elm
Elm
Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus Ulmus in the plant family Ulmaceae. The dozens of species are found in temperate and tropical-montane regions of North America and Eurasia, ranging southward into Indonesia. Elms are components of many kinds of natural forests...
s, publishing many papers on the subject.