Manfred Pinkal
Manfred Pinkal (born August 24, 1949 ) is a German computational linguist . He is a senior professor at Saarland University .
Manfred Pinkal studied linguistics , German , philosophy and computer science at the universities of Bochum and Stuttgart . He received his doctorate in linguistics from the University of Stuttgart. Pinkal has been a professor of computational linguistics at Saarland University since 1990. He was the co-founder and project manager of two collaborative research centers and founding spokesman for the international graduate school "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems" of the DFG. Since 2007 he has been deputy spokesman for the Cluster of Excellence “Multi-Modal Computing and Interaction”. At the center of Pinkal's work is the representation and processing of meaning information in the context of truth-based and distributional semantics , with a special focus on vagueness, ambiguity and the interaction of meaning and context. In 2000, Pinkal was the first computational linguist to receive the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize . He is a member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature .
Web links
- Manfred Pinkal
- Cluster of Excellence Multi-Model Computing and Interaction
- Collaborative Research Center 378: Resource Adaptive Cognitive Processes
- Collaborative Research Center 1102: Information Density and Linguistic Encoding
Remarks
- ↑ member entry of Manfred Pinkal at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz.
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| SURNAME | Pinkal, Manfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German computational linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1949 |