Residence Philadelphia, PA, USA Fields Computational linguistics | Role Engineer Name Aravind Joshi | |
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Born August 5, 1929Pune, India ( 1929-08-05 ) Citizenship United States of America Education University of Pennsylvania (1960), Indian Institute of Science | ||
Indian computer scientist Aravind Joshi Died at 88
Aravind Krishna Joshi (Marathi: अरविंद कृष्ण जोशी) (born August 5, 1929 in Pune, India) is 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.
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- Indian computer scientist Aravind Joshi Died at 88
- JoshiFest Aravind Joshi as Advisor by Kathleen McKeown
- Awards and recognitions
- Awarded history
- References
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 is the co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science.
JoshiFest: "Aravind Joshi as Advisor" by Kathleen McKeown
Awards and recognitions
Awarded history
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."