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Jerry Hobbs is a research professor at the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California and has been a consulting professor with the Linguistics Department and the Symbolic Systems Program at Stanford University. From 1977 to 2002, he was with the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International, Menlo Park, California, where he was a principal scientist and program director of the Natural Language Program. He received his doctor's degree in computer science from New York University in 1974. He has written numerous papers in the areas of parsing, syntax, semantic interpretation, information extraction, knowledge representation, encoding commonsense knowledge, discourse analysis, the structure of conversation, and the Semantic Web. He is the author of the book Literature and Cognition, and was also editor of the book Formal Theories of the Commonsense World.

Commonsense Knowledge and Lexical Semantics | LSA.104
TR 8:15-9:55
Three Week Course | First Session

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