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Jun 02, 1946 Chicago, Illinois, United States 77 years old
American computer scientist
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About Eugene Charniak
- Eugene Charniak is a Computer Science and Cognitive Science professor at Brown University.
- He has an A.B.
- in Physics from The University of Chicago and a Ph.D.
- from M.I.T.
- in Computer Science.
- His research has always been in the area of language understanding or technologies which relate to it, such as knowledge representation, reasoning under uncertainty, and learning.
- Since the early 1990s he has been interested in statistical techniques for language understanding.
- His research in this area has included work in the subareas of part-of-speech tagging, probabilistic context-free grammar induction, and, more recently, syntactic disambiguation through word statistics, efficient syntactic parsing, and lexical resource acquisition through statistical means. He is a Fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence and was previously a Councilor of the organization.
- He was also honored with the 2011 Association for Computational Linguistics Lifetime Achievement Award and awarded the 2011 Calvin & Rose G Hoffman Prize.
- In 2011, he was named a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
- In 2015, he won the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Classic Paper Award for a paper (“Statistical Parsing with a Context-Free Grammar and Word Statistics”) that he presented at the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 1997. He has published five books: Introduction to Deep Learning, Cambridge: MIT Press (2019) Statistical Language Learning, Cambridge: MIT Press (1993) Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (with Drew McDermott), Reading MA: Addison-Wesley (1985) Artificial Intelligence Programming (now in a second edition) (with Chris Riesbeck, Drew McDermott, and James Meehan), Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (1980, 1987) Computational Semantics, (with Yorick Wilks), Amsterdam: North-Holland (1976)
