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Lauri Karttunen is a Research Fellow at the Palo Alto Research Center and a Consulting Professor in Linguistics at Stanford University . He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Indiana University in 1969. At the University of Texas from 1969-1983, he worked mostly on semantics and authored a number of seminal papers on discourse referents, presuppositions, and questions. In the area of computational linguistics, Karttunen was one of the first pioneers to realize and exploit the potential of finite-state transducers for linguistic applications. His 1983 KIMMO system was an influential implementation of two-level morphology. At SRI from 1984-1987, Karttunen worked on unification and parsing. At the Palo Alto Research Center and the Xerox European Research Center in France, Karttunen has contributed to finite-state technology and its applications to natural language processing, in particular to morphological analysis and generation: (with Kenneth R. Beesley) Finite State Morphology (CSLI Publications, 2003); "Computing with Realizational Morphology," in Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. Alexander Gelbukh (ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 2588, (Springer Verlag, Heidelberg , 2003).

Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing | LSA.207
MW 4:50-6:30
Three Week Course | Second Session