Aravind Joshi
Aravind Krishna Joshi (born August 5, 1929 in Pune , India , † December 31, 2017 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) was Professor of Computer Science and Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania . Joshi defined tree adjunct grammar (TAG), which is used to process natural language.
Joshi earned his bachelor's degree in engineering (electrical engineering, mechanical engineering) from the University of Pune in 1950, his diploma from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and his master's degree in electrical engineering in 1958 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his doctorate in 1960. In 1961 he became an assistant professor in the faculty for electrical engineering (1964 also in the for linguistics), 1967 associate professor and 1972 professor. From 1972 to 1985 he headed the Faculty of Computer Science there. In 1985 he became Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer Science and Cognitive Science.
He worked at the interface of computer science and linguistics, especially syntactic and semantic representation of language structure, connection of language structure to logic, mathematical linguistics, computability theory in connection with the processing of natural languages, parsing algorithms, design and construction of various systems for processing natural language (especially Question-answer systems as a connection to databases), psychological aspects of language processing models, aspects of language learning.
Awards
- 1971–72: Guggenheim scholarship
- 1976: Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- 1987: Award for the best article at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- 1990: Founding member of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence ( AAAI )
- 1997: IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
- 1998: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) scholarship holder
- 1999: the National Academy of Engineering elected
- 2002: First recipient of the Association for Computational Linguistics' Lifetime Achievement Award at the 40th annual ACL meeting
- 2005: Benjamin Franklin Medal for Computer Science and Cognitive Science
On April 21, 2005, Joshi received the Benjamin Franklin Medal for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of language representation in the brain and the development of computer techniques to efficiently process natural languages, which have led to advances in machine translation .
Web links
- Aravind Joshi's website (English)
- ACL Lifetime Achievement Award (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Joshi, Aravind |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Joshi, Aravind K .; Joshi, Aravind Krishna (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist and cognitive scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pune , India |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 2017 |
| Place of death | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania |