Aravind Joshi
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.
Aravind Krishna Joshi | |
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| Born | August 5, 1929 Pune, India |
| Died | December 31, 2017 (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 |
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.