About Gerald Gazdar
Born 1950. Gerald Gazdar is a British linguist and university teacher, known for Generalized phrase structure grammar.
Gerald James Michael Gazdar, FBA (born 24 February 1950) is a British linguist and computer scientist.
Education He was educated at Heath Mount School, Bradfield College, the University of East Anglia (BA, 1970) and the University of Reading (MA, PhD).
Career and research Gazdar was appointed a lecturer at the University of Sussex in 1975, and became Professor of Computational Linguistics there in 1985. He retired in 2002.
Gazdar defined Linear Indexed Grammars and pioneered, along with his colleagues Ewan Klein, Geoffrey Pullum and Ivan Sag, the framework of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammars.
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British linguist
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Gerald Gazdar was born on 24 February 1950.
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Gerald Gazdar is a linguist and university teacher.
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Gerald Gazdar is known for Generalized phrase structure grammar.
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Gerald Gazdar is British.
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