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and director of Nuance' Natural Language and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Prior to that he served as chief scientist and a principal researcher at the
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He received his bachelor's degree (1968) in mathematics and language behavior from the University of California, Berkeley and his master's (1970) and
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He helped to embed finite-state methods in a wide range of commercial products offered by Xerox and by several Xerox spin-off companies:
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Intelligent linguistic architectures: variations on themes by Ronald M. Kaplan
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and produced its initial computational implementation. He developed (with
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in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2006, he was honored with a
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He was honored with the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the
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Presidents of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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1994 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
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Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)
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Stanford University Department of Linguistics faculty
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Amazon.com
A9.com
Nuance Communications
Powerset
Microsoft Bing
Stanford University
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)
Palo Alto Research Center
Ph.D.
social psychology
Harvard University
grammar
Augmented Transition Networks
English
Joan Bresnan
Lexical Functional Grammar
Martin Kay
phonological
morphological
Microlytics
Inxight
Scansoft
Association for Computational Linguistics
ACM
Interlisp
Association for Computing Machinery
Cognitive Science Society
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
festschrift
CSLI Publications

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