Collected Papers of Martin Kay ─ A Half Century of Computational Linguistics

This series covers all areas of computational linguistics and language technology, with a special emphasis on work which has direct relevance to practical applications, makes formal advances, and incorporates insights into natural language processing from other fields, especially linguistics and psychology. Books in this series describe groundbreaking research or provide an accessible and up-to-date overview of an area for nonspecialists. Also included are works documenting freely available resources for language processing, such as software, grammars, dictionaries, and corpora.

Martin Kay is one of the preeminent computational linguists in the world, having helped to shape and advance this field for the past fifty years. He is currently the Chair of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics, and the former Chair of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Born and raised in the United Kingdom, he received his M.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1961. In 1958 he started to work at the Cambridge Language Research Unit, one of the earliest centers for research in what is now known as computational linguistics. In 1961, he moved to the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California, where he eventually became head of research in linguistics and machine translation. He left Rand in 1972 to become Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. In 1974, he moved to the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center as a Research Fellow. In 1985, while retaining his position at Xerox PARC, he joined the faculty of Stanford University half-time. He is currently Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University and Honorary Professor of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University. He holds an honorary doctorate of Gothenburg University. In 2005, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Association for Computational Linguistics for his sustained role as an intellectual Linguistics for his sustained role as an intellectual leader of NLP research. His research interests include translation, both by people and machnies, and computational linguistics algo rithms, especially in the fields of morphology and syntax.