Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Israeli linguist and philosopher, pioneer of machine translation and formal semantics.
1915, Vienna, Austria — 1975, Jerusalem, Israel
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Yehoshua Bar-Hillel is recognized among Israeli contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Israeli linguist and philosopher, pioneer of machine translation and formal semantics.
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel was an Israeli philosopher, mathematician and linguist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a pioneer of machine translation and of formal approaches to language, including categorial grammar and formal semantics. Born into a Jewish family in Vienna, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine and became a founding figure in computational linguistics. He famously argued the limits of fully automatic high-quality translation.
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Israeli linguist and philosopher, pioneer of machine translation and formal semantics.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
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