Aravind Krishna Joshi (August 5, 1929 – December 31, 2017) was 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.
![]() | This article needs additional citations for verification. (January 2018) |
Aravind Krishna Joshi | |
---|---|
Born | (1929-08-05)August 5, 1929 Pune, India |
Died | December 31, 2017(2017-12-31) (aged 88) |
Alma mater |
|
Known for | Defining the tree-adjoining grammar formalism |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computational linguistics |
Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
Notable students | S. Rao Kosaraju, Jerry Kaplan, Kathleen McKeown, Kathleen McCoy, Marilyn Walker, K. Vijay-Shankar, Robert Frank, Philip Resnik, Owen Rambow, Anoop Sarkar, Fei Xia, David Chiang, Liang Huang |
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 was the co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science.
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."[5]
Preceded by Richard M. Karp |
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science 2005 |
Succeeded by Donald Norman |
Preceded by None |
ACL Lifetime Achievement Award 2002 |
Succeeded by Makoto Nagao |
General | |
---|---|
National libraries | |
Scientific databases | |
Other |
|