A Symposium Honoring Dr. Aravind K. Joshi, Recipient of
the 2005 Benjamin Frankin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science
Friday, April 22, 2005
Formal Grammars, DNA, and Linguistic Theory
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Citation: The 2005 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science is awarded to Aravind Joshi 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.
"Aravind Joshi is a world leader in the interdisciplinary research that covers linguistics, cognitive science, and computer science. His theoretical insights regarding the structure of human language, and the resulting tools and techniques he developed, help us understand how we communicate and allow us to interface with technology more naturally..."
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