Andras Kornai
Encyclopedia
András Kornai is a well-known mathematical linguist. He earned his mathematics PhD in 1983 from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest where his advisor was Miklós Ajtai
. He earned his linguistics PhD in 1991 from Stanford University, where his advisor was Paul Kiparsky
.
His Erdős number
is 2.
He is Chief Scientist at MetaCarta
where he works on information extraction
, and adjunct professor at the Budapest Institute of Technology, where he works on an open source Hungarian morphological analyzer.
He is on the board of the journal Grammars
and YourAmigo PLC. His research interests include all mathematical aspects of natural language processing, speech recognition, and OCR.
As Area Editor he was responsible for the Mathematical Linguistics area of the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, and his joint work with Geoffrey Pullum
, http://www.kornai.com/Papers/xbarver.pdf "The X-bar Theory of Phrase Structure" formally reconstructed that then-popular linguistic theory.
Formal Phonology. In the series Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics, Garland Publishing, 1994, ISBN 0-8153-1730-1, hardbound, 240 pages Contents, Preface, Introduction (20 pages)
On Hungarian Morphology. In the series Linguistica, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1994, ISBN 963-8461-73-X, paperbound, 174 pages Contents, Preface, Introduction (10 pages)
Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL Workshop on the Analysis of Geographic References. Jointly with Beth Sundheim. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2003, ISBN 1-932432-04-3 (WS9), paperbound, vi+81 pages. See related material.
Extended Finite State Models of Language (editor). In the series Studies in Natural Language Processing, Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-521-63198-X, hardbound, x+278 pages Contents, Introduction (7 pages).
Miklós Ajtai
Miklós Ajtai is a computer scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center. In 2003 he received the Knuth Prize for his numerous contributions to the field, including a classic sorting network algorithm Miklós Ajtai (born 2 July 1946, Budapest, Hungary) is a computer scientist at the IBM Almaden...
. He earned his linguistics PhD in 1991 from Stanford University, where his advisor was Paul Kiparsky
Paul Kiparsky
René Paul Viktor Kiparsky is a professor of linguistics at Stanford University. He is the son of the Russian-born linguist and Slavicist Valentin Kiparsky....
.
His Erdős number
Erdos number
The Erdős number describes the "collaborative distance" between a person and mathematician Paul Erdős, as measured by authorship of mathematical papers.The same principle has been proposed for other eminent persons in other fields.- Overview :...
is 2.
He is Chief Scientist at MetaCarta
MetaCarta
MetaCarta is aprivate company providing geographic solutions since 2001. Their headquarters are in Cambridge, MA with additional offices located in Washington DC; Houston, TX; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; and New York, NY.-History:...
where he works on information extraction
Information extraction
Information extraction is a type of information retrieval whose goal is to automatically extract structured information from unstructured and/or semi-structured machine-readable documents. In most of the cases this activity concerns processing human language texts by means of natural language...
, and adjunct professor at the Budapest Institute of Technology, where he works on an open source Hungarian morphological analyzer.
He is on the board of the journal Grammars
Grammars
Grammars: A Journal of Mathematical Research on Formal and Natural Languages is an academic journal devoted to the mathematical linguistics of formal and natural languages, published by Springer-Verlag.ISSN 1386-7393...
and YourAmigo PLC. His research interests include all mathematical aspects of natural language processing, speech recognition, and OCR.
As Area Editor he was responsible for the Mathematical Linguistics area of the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, and his joint work with Geoffrey Pullum
Geoffrey Pullum
Geoffrey Keith "Geoff" Pullum is a British-American linguist specialising in the study of English. , he is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh....
, http://www.kornai.com/Papers/xbarver.pdf "The X-bar Theory of Phrase Structure" formally reconstructed that then-popular linguistic theory.
Monographs
Mathematical Linguistics. Springer Verlag, in the series Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing, November 2007. ISBN 978-1-84628-985-9 Hardbound, approximately 300 pages. See description.Formal Phonology. In the series Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics, Garland Publishing, 1994, ISBN 0-8153-1730-1, hardbound, 240 pages Contents, Preface, Introduction (20 pages)
On Hungarian Morphology. In the series Linguistica, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1994, ISBN 963-8461-73-X, paperbound, 174 pages Contents, Preface, Introduction (10 pages)
Books Edited
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (Mathematical Linguistics Area Editor under Editor in Chief William Frawley). 4 volumes, Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-19513-977-8.Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL Workshop on the Analysis of Geographic References. Jointly with Beth Sundheim. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2003, ISBN 1-932432-04-3 (WS9), paperbound, vi+81 pages. See related material.
Extended Finite State Models of Language (editor). In the series Studies in Natural Language Processing, Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-521-63198-X, hardbound, x+278 pages Contents, Introduction (7 pages).
Selected papers
- Hunmorph: open source word analysis (Jointly with V. Tron, Gy. Gyepesi, P. Halacsy, L. Nemeth, and D. Varga). In Proc. ACL 2005 Software Workshop 77-85 http://www.kornai.com/Papers/acl05software.pdf
- Leveraging the open source ispell codebase for minority language analysis (Jointly with P. Halacsy, L. Nemeth, A. Rung, I. Szakadat, and V. Tron). In J. Carson-Berndsen (ed): Proc. SALTMIL 2004 56-59 http://www.kornai.com/Papers/saltmil.pdf
- Explicit Finitism, International Journal of Theoretical Physics 2003/2 301-307 http://www.kornai.com/Papers/fathom.pdf
- Mathematical Linguistics (Jointly with G.K. Pullum) In W. Frawley (ed): Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Oxford University Press 2003, v3 17-20 http://www.kornai.com/MatLing/matling3.pdf
- Optical Character Recognition, In W. Frawley (ed): Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Oxford University Press 2003, v3 33-34 http://www.kornai.com/MatLing/ocrfinal.pdf
- How many words are there? Glottometrics 2002/4 61-86 http://www.kornai.com/Papers/hmwat.pdf
- Zipf's law outside the middle range Proc. Sixth Meeting on Mathematics of Language University of Central Florida, 1999 347-356 http://www.kornai.com/Papers/zipf.pdf
- A Robust, Language-Independent OCR System. (Jointly with Z. Lu, I. Bazzi, J. Makhoul, P. Natarajan, and R. Schwartz) In: Robert J. Mericsko (ed): Proc. 27th AIPR Workshop: Advances in Computer-Assisted Recognition SPIE Proceedings 3584 1999 http://www.kornai.com/Papers/aipr98.pdf
- Quantitative Comparison of Languages. Grammars 1998/2 155-165 http://www.kornai.com/Papers/mol4.pdf
- The generative power of feature geometry. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 8 1993 37-46 http://www.kornai.com/Papers/mol2.pdf
- The X-bar Theory of Phrase Structure. (Jointly with G.K. Pullum) Language 66 1990 24-50 http://www.kornai.com/Papers/xbarver.pdf