Eugene Charniak (1946 – June 13, 2023[2]) was a professor of computer Science and cognitive Science at Brown University. He held an A.B. in Physics from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Computer Science. His research was 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 was interested in statistical techniques for language understanding. His research in this area 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.
Eugene Charniak | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1946 |
| Died | June 13, 2023, age 77 |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago (A.B.) M.I.T. (Ph.D.) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Natural Language Processing |
| Institutions | Brown University |
| Doctoral advisor | Marvin Minsky[1] |
| Website | cs |
He was 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[3] and awarded the 2011 Calvin & Rose G Hoffman Prize. In 2011, he was named a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics.[4] 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.
Books
editHe published six books:
- Computational Semantics, (with Yorick Wilks), Amsterdam: North-Holland (1976)
- Artificial Intelligence Programming (now in a second edition) (with Chris Riesbeck, Drew McDermott, and James Meehan), Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (1980, 1987)
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (with Drew McDermott), Reading MA: Addison-Wesley (1985)
- Statistical Language Learning, Cambridge: MIT Press (1993)
- Introduction to Deep Learning, Cambridge: MIT Press (2019)
- AI & I: An Intellectual History of Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge: MIT Press (2024)
References
edit- ^ "Personal page for Marvin Minsky". web.media.mit.edu. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
- ^ Shriram Krishnamurthi [@ShriramKMurthi] (13 June 2023). "Very sad to announce that Eugene Charniak, a statistical NLP pioneer ("Charniak parsing"), inaugural class ACL fellow, etc., passed away this morning" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients". ACL wiki. ACL. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
- ^ "ACL Fellows". ACL Wiki. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
External links
edit- Eugene Charniak's homepage at Brown University
- Eugene Charniak at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- "The Nature Of Life, The Nature Of Thinking: Looking Back On Eugene Charniak’s Work And Life"
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