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19571950s
Noam Chomsky
Linguist whose theories of formal grammar shaped computational linguistics.
Organizations
MIT
Major Achievements
- •Published 'Syntactic Structures' (1957), introducing transformational grammar.
- •Developed the Chomsky hierarchy, mathematically classifying formal languages.
- •His strict syntactic theories dominated NLP efforts before the statistical revolution of the 1990s.
Key Papers
- Three Models for the Description of Language
Noam Chomsky · IRE Transactions on Information Theory · 1956
Videos
The Concept of Language (Noam Chomsky)
UW Video