Mark Jerome Steedman (born 18 September 1946) is a

computational linguist Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions. In general, computational linguistics ...

and

cognitive scientist Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes. It examines the nature, the tasks, and the functions of cognition (in a broad sense). Mental faculties of concern to cognitive scientists include percep ...

Biography

Steedman graduated from the

University of Sussex The University of Sussex is a public university, public research university, research university located in Falmer, East Sussex, England. It lies mostly within the city boundaries of Brighton and Hove. Its large campus site is surrounded by the ...

in 1968, with a B.Sc. in Experimental Psychology, and from the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh (, ; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a Public university, public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded by the City of Edinburgh Council, town council under th ...

in 1973, with a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (Dissertation: ''The Formal Description of Musical Perception'' gained in 1972. Advisor: Prof. H.C. Longuet-Higgins FRS). He has held posts as Lecturer in Psychology,

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of ...

(1977–83); Lecturer and Reader in Computational Linguistics,

(1983–8); Associate and full Professor in Computer and Information Sciences,

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

(1988–98). He has held visiting positions at the

University of Texas The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 students as of fall 2 ...

at Austin, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, and the

, Philadelphia. Steedman currently holds the Chair of

Cognitive Science Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes. It examines the nature, the tasks, and the functions of cognition (in a broad sense). Mental faculties of concern to cognitive scientists include percep ...

in the School of Informatics at the

(1998– ). He works in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science, on Generation of Meaningful Intonation for Speech by Artificial Agents, Animated Conversation, The Communicative Use of Gesture, Tense and Aspect, and

Combinatory Categorial Grammar Combinatory categorial grammar (CCG) is an efficiently parsable, yet linguistically expressive grammar formalism. It has a transparent interface between surface syntax and underlying semantic representation, including predicate–argument structur ...

(CCG). He is also interested in Computational Musical Analysis and

combinatory logic Combinatory logic is a notation to eliminate the need for quantified variables in mathematical logic. It was introduced by Moses Schönfinkel and Haskell Curry, and has more recently been used in computer science as a theoretical model of com ...

Distinctions

* Member of the

Academia Europæa The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of humanities, letters, law, and sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europe ...

(2006) * Fellow of the

British Academy The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the sa ...

(2002). * Fellow of the

Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was establis ...

(2002) *

AAAI The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is an international scientific society devoted to promote research in, and responsible use of, artificial intelligence. AAAI also aims to increase public understanding of artif ...

Fellow (1993) * President elect for 2008 of the Association for Computational Linguistics * Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2012)

Principal publications

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References

External links

Mark Steedman's Home Page

Elected AAAI Fellows

ACL Fellows
1946 births Living people Fellows of the British Academy Artificial intelligence researchers Alumni of the University of Sussex Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellows of the SSAISB Members of Academia Europaea British computer scientists Linguists from the United Kingdom Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics Natural language processing researchers Computational linguistics researchers Presidents of the Association for Computational Linguistics {{UK-compu-bio-stub