Aravind Joshi

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Aravind Krishna Joshi
Born(1929-08-05)August 5, 1929
Pune, India
DiedDecember 31, 2017(2017-12-31) (aged 88)
ResidencePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma materCollege of Engineering, Pune Indian Institute of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Known forDefining the tree-adjoining grammar formalism
Scientific career
Fieldscomputational linguistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania
Notable studentsS. Rao Kosaraju, Jerry Kaplan, Kathleen McKeown, Kathleen McCoy, Marilyn Walker, K. Vijay-Shankar, Robert Frank, Philip Resnik, Owen Rambow, Anoop Sarkar, Fei Xia, David Chiang, Liang Huang

Aravind Krishna Joshi (August 5, 1929 – December 31, 2017) was the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science in the computer science department of the University of Pennsylvania. Joshi defined the tree-adjoining grammar formalism which is often used in computational linguistics and natural language processing.

Joshi studied at Pune University and the Indian Institute of Science, where he was awarded a BE in electrical engineering and a DIISc in communication engineering respectively. Joshi's graduate work was done in the electrical engineering department at the University of Pennsylvania, and he was awarded his PhD in 1960. He became a professor at Penn and was the co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science.

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Awarded history[edit]

On April 21, 2005, Joshi was awarded the Franklin Institute's Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science. The Franklin Institute citation states that he was awarded the medal "for his fundamental contributions to our understanding of how language is represented in the mind, and for developing techniques that enable computers to process efficiently the wide range of human languages. These advances have led to new methods for computer translation."[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Search Results". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 16 August 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  2. ^ "ACL Lifetime AChievement Award Recipients". ACL Wiki. ACL. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  3. ^ http://www.cuni.cz/UK-5433.html
  4. ^ "SIGMOL | Award 2013". molweb.org. SIGMOL. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-01. Retrieved 2008-04-12.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)

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Preceded by
Richard M. Karp
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science
2005
Succeeded by
Donald Norman
Preceded by
None
ACL Lifetime Achievement Award
2002
Succeeded by
Makoto Nagao