'Gerald Gazdar' (born
February 24,
1950) is a linguist and computer scientist.
He graduated from the
University of East Anglia in
1970, and completed his master's degree in
1972 at the
University of Reading, where he also received his PhD in
1976. He became a lecturer at the
University of Sussex in
1975, and became Professor of Computational Linguistics there in
1985. He retired in
2002.
Along with his colleagues
Ewan Klein,
Geoffrey Pullum and
Ivan Sag, Gazdar pioneered
Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar.
External links
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Gerald Gazdar's home page