Gerald Gazdar | |
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Born | Gerald James Michael Gazdar 24 February 1950 [1] |
Institutions | University of Sussex |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | Formal pragmatics for natural language implicature, presupposition and logical form (1976) |
Doctoral students | Ann Copestake[2] |
Known for | Generalized phrase structure grammars |
Website www |
Gerald James Michael Gazdar (born 24 February 1950) is a linguist and computer scientist.
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.
References
- ^ GAZDAR, Prof. Gerald James Michael. Who's Who. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
- ^ Copestake, Ann Alicia (1992). The representation of lexical semantic information (PDF) (DPhil thesis). University of Sussex. OCLC 39162903. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-29.
- ^ Gazdar, Gerald James Michael (1976). Formal pragmatics for natural language implicature, presupposition and logical form. (PhD thesis). University of Reading.