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| | Biographies of Major Contributors to Cognitive Science |
 | | His research addresses language understanding or technologies which relate to it, such as knowledge representation, reasoning under uncertainty, and learning. |
 | | Recently he has explored statistical techniques for language understanding, including part-of-speech tagging, probabilistic context-free grammar induction, syntactic disambiguation through word statistics, efficient syntactic parsing, and lexical resource acquisition through statistical means. |
 | | Charniak was a founding editor of Cognitive Science; among his books are Artificial Intelligence Programming (1987) and Statistical Language Learning (1993). |
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