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Gerald James Michael Gazdar, FBA (born 24 February 1950) is a British linguist and computer scientist.
Gerald Gazdar | |
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Born | Gerald James Michael Gazdar 24 February 1950[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 |
He was educated at Heath Mount School, Bradfield College, the University of East Anglia (BA, 1970) and the University of Reading (MA, PhD).[3]
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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