Gerald James Michael Gazdar, FBA (born 24 February 1950) is a British linguist and computer scientist.
Gerald Gazdar | |
|---|---|
| Born | Gerald James Michael Gazdar 24 February 1950[2] |
| 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,[1] Adam Kilgarriff |
| Website | www |
Education
editHe 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
editGazdar 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.
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.)
- ^ Gazdar, Gerald James Michael (1976). Formal pragmatics for natural language implicature, presupposition and logical form (PhD thesis). University of Reading.
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