Research in Natural Language Processing: Mathematical and Computational Investigations in Constrained Grammatical Formalisms

这是与特拉华大学的Vijayshanker博士共同获得的奖项。该团队提出了自然语言处理的几项主要研究任务，并特别强调了几个数学和计算方面的问题。这部作品显然具有形式性和数学性。该小组已经开发和将要开发的各种计算结构和策略需要进行数学调查，因为这种调查揭示了这些形式主义的描述和处理能力。这两个方面，即结构和策略的发展，以及它们的数学研究，是非常相互关联的。人们认为，由正式框架支持的自然语言处理和以实证研究为基础的数学调查是两个非常富有成效的研究领域。研究人员将专注于对数学研究感兴趣，只有在研究结果对自然语言处理有重要影响的情况下才会如此。

This is a joint award with Dr. Vijayshanker at the University of Delaware. This team has proposed several major research tasks in natural language processing with special emphasis on several mathematical and computational aspects. The work clearly has a formal and mathematical character. The various computational structures and strategies the team has developed and will develop, need to be investigated mathematically because such investigations shed light on the descriptive and processing powers of these formalisms. These two aspects, i.e., the development of the structures and strategies, and their mathematical investigations, are very much interrelated. It is believed that natural language processing backed up by a formal framework, and mathematical investigations grounded in empirical studies are two very productive areas of research. The researcher will focus on interested in mathematical investigations only to the extent to which the results have important implications for natural language processing.