Rolf Harald Baayen
Rolf Harald Baayen , called Harald Baayen, (born October 2, 1958 in the USA ) is a Dutch linguist.
Baayen studied at the Free University of Amsterdam with a doctorate in 1989 and then went to the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen and the University of Nijmegen. From 2006 he was Professor of Quantitative Linguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen and from 2007 Professor at the University of Alberta . In 2010 he received a Humboldt Professorship , with which he has been at the University of Tübingen since 2011 .
He is known for his contributions to quantitative linguistics (vocabulary research, computer-aided empirical linguistics) and examined the role of memory in language processing. He is pursuing a project (WIDE, Wide Incremental Learning with Discrimination Networks) in which words are not assigned to letter sequences, but to other characteristics of the sound signal. This is to take into account the problem that colloquial words are often greatly reduced, but are still recognized. As part of the project, a computer model for speech recognition is being developed that is not based on conversion into letters and instead of multi-layered learning networks only uses two-layered learning networks, but these with many inputs and outputs.
In 1998 he received a Pioneer Award from the Dutch research organization NWO and in 2005 a Müller professorship from the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Linguistic Society of America and the Academia Europaea . In 2004 he was an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. In 2017 he received an Advanced Grant from the ERC.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baayen, Rolf Harald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baayen, Harald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | United States |