Gerald Gazdar

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Gerald Gazdar
Born
Gerald James Michael Gazdar

(1950-02-24) 24 February 1950 (age 73) [1]
Alma mater
Known for Generalized phrase structure grammars
Scientific career
Institutions University of Sussex
Thesis Formal pragmatics for natural language implicature, presupposition and logical form  (1976)
Doctoral students Ann Copestake, [2] Adam Kilgarriff
Website www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/982

Gerald James Michael Gazdar, FBA (born 24 February 1950) is a British linguist and computer scientist.

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Education

He was educated at Heath Mount School, Bradfield College, the University of East Anglia (BA, 1970) and the University of Reading (MA, PhD). [3]

Career and research

Gazdar was appointed a lecturer at the University of Sussex in 1975, and became Professor of Computational Linguistics there in 1985. He retired in 2002.[ citation needed ]

Gazdar defined Linear Indexed Grammars and pioneered, along with his colleagues Ewan Klein, Geoffrey Pullum and Ivan Sag, the framework of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammars.

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References

  1. "GAZDAR, Prof. Gerald James Michael" . Who's Who . Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press  ed.). A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. Copestake, Ann Alicia (1992). The representation of lexical semantic information (PDF) (DPhil thesis). University of Sussex. OCLC   39162903. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 April 2015.
  3. Gazdar, Gerald James Michael (1976). Formal pragmatics for natural language implicature, presupposition and logical form (PhD thesis). University of Reading.