Mark Steedman

Mark Jerome Steedman, FBA, FRSE (born 18 September 1946) is a computational linguist and cognitive scientist.

Biography

Steedman graduated from the University of Sussex in 1968, with a B.Sc. in Experimental Psychology, and from the University of Edinburgh in 1973, with a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (Dissertation:The Formal Description of Musical Perception [1] gained in 1972. Advisor: Prof. H.C. Longuet-Higgins FRS).

He has held posts as Lecturer in Psychology, University of Warwick (1977–83); Lecturer and Reader in Computational Linguistics, University of Edinburgh (1983-8); Associate and full Professor in Computer and Information Sciences, University of Pennsylvania (1988–98). He has held visiting positions at the University of Texas at Austin, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Steedman currently holds the Chair of Cognitive Science in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh (1998- ). He works in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science, on Generation of Meaningful Intonation for Speech by Artificial Agents, Animated Conversation, The Communicative Use of Gesture, Tense and Aspect, and Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG). He is also interested in Computational Musical Analysis and Combinatory Logic.

Distinctions

Principal publications

  • Steedman, Mark (April 1996). Surface structure and interpretation; (Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 30). MIT Press. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-262-69193-2. Archived from the original on 12 September 2006.
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gollark: Besides, why not generalize it to MULTIPLE drugs?
gollark: This doesn't sound smart. Drunk people are just stupid.
gollark: Didn't you make some promise regarding that?
gollark: Or... mindbreak?

References

  1. "The Formal Description of Musical Perception". Longuet-Higgins, Christopher. 1972. hdl:1842/8128. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. "ACL Fellows". ACL Wiki. Retrieved 15 August 2017.


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