28.3166, FYI: 2017 S.-Y. Kuroda Prize awarded to James Rogers

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Subject: 28.3166, FYI:  2017 S.-Y. Kuroda Prize awarded to James Rogers

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Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 22:54:08
From: Makoto Kanazawa [kanazawa at nii.ac.jp]
Subject: 2017 S.-Y. Kuroda Prize awarded to James Rogers

 
\We are pleased to announce that the 2017 S.-Y. Kuroda Prize for Lasting
Contributions to the Mathematics of Language has been awarded to James Rogers
(Earlham College). Rogers’s 1998 book, “A Descriptive Approach to
Language-Theoretic Complexity”, was the first comprehensive work to apply
monadic second-order logic to the analysis of linguistic theories. Among other
things, it showed that almost all of the principles of Government and Binding
Theory of English syntax can be defined in the language of MSO, with the
consequence that this portion of the GB theory of English generates a
context-free string language. This book and his other publications in the same
decade helped establish model-theoretic syntax as a central tool in the
mathematics of language. Nowadays model-theoretic methods in general and MSO
in particular inform not only research in the realm of syntax, but also in
phonology.

The official citation for the award is available at
http://www.molweb.org/award-2017.html.

Established in 2013, the S.-Y. Kuroda Prize commemorates the legacy of S.-Y.
Kuroda, whose groundbreaking work characterizing the class of
context−sensitive languages in terms of linear bounded automata opened up
theoretical territory which has informed a wide range of research in
computational linguistics, formal language theory, and the theory of
computation. The Kuroda Prize is awarded to those whose work has had similar
impact than Kuroda’s—work that has spawned a broad area of research in the
Mathematics of Language.

The Association for Mathematics of Language (SIGMOL) is a Special Interest
Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics and aims to promote
interest in mathematical structures and methods that are of importance to the
study of language. The association organizes biennial meetings and endorses
other meetings and workshops in the area of mathematics of language.

The Association for Mathematics of Language (SIGMOL)
http://www.molweb.org
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
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