Eugene Charniak
Eugene Charniak (born June 2, 1946 in Chicago ) is an American computer scientist who was an expert on artificial intelligence .
Charniak studied at the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in 1967 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master's degree in 1968 and a doctorate in computer science in 1972 with Marvin Minsky ( Towards a Model of Children's Story Comprehension ). In 1972/73 he was at the AI Lab at MIT and then until 1977 at the Institute of Semantic Studies at MIT. 1977/78 he was visiting professor at Yale University . In 1978 he became an assistant professor and 1984 professor of computer science at Brown University , whose computer science faculty he headed from 1991 to 1997.
It deals with computer methods of understanding natural language and statistical methods of learning and understanding language.
From 1977 to 1984 he was the editor of Cognitive Science. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
Fonts
- with Yorick Wills: Computational Semantics, North Holland 1976
- with Chris Riesbeck, Drew McDermott , James Meehan: Artificial Intelligence Programming, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 1980, 2nd edition 1987
- with Drew McDermott: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Addison-Wesley 1985
- Statistical Language Learning, MIT Press 1993
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Eugene Charniak in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Charniak, Eugene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |