András Kornai (born 1957 in

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), son of economist

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, is a mathematical linguist. He has earned two

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. He earned his first in Mathematics in 1983 from

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in Budapest, where his advisor was

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, and his second in Linguistics in 1991 from

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, where his advisor was

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. He is a professor in the Department of Algebra at the Budapest Institute of Technology, where he works on an open source Hungarian morphological analyzer. He was Chief Scientist at

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, where he worked on

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before the company was acquired by

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. Prior to MetaCarta, he was Chief Scientist at Northern Light. He is on the board of the journal ''Grammars'' and YourAmigo PLC. His research interests include all mathematical aspects of

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, and OCR. As Area Editor he was responsible for the Mathematical Linguistics area of the ''Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics'', and his joint work with

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"The X-bar Theory of Phrase Structure"
formally reconstructed that then-popular linguistic theory.

Monographs

*''Semantics''. Springer Nature, 2020. *''Mathematical Linguistics''. Springer Verlag, in the series Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing, November 2007. Hardbound, approximately 300 pages. Se
description
*''Formal Phonology''. In the series Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics, Garland Publishing, 1994, , hardbound, 240 page
Contents, Preface, Introduction (20 pages)
*''On Hungarian Morphology''. In the series Linguistica, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1994, , paperbound, 174 page
Contents, Preface, Introduction (10 pages)

Books edited

*''Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics'' (Mathematical Linguistics Area Editor under Editor in Chief William Frawley). 4 volumes, Oxford University Press, 2003, . *''Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL Workshop on the Analysis of Geographic References''. Jointly with Beth Sundheim. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2003, (WS9), paperbound, vi+81 pages. Se
related material
*''Extended Finite State Models of Language'' (editor). In the series Studies in Natural Language Processing, Cambridge University Press, 1999, , hardbound, x+278 page
Contents, Introduction (7 pages)

Selected papers

* Digital Language Death. PLoS ONE 8(10): e77056, 2012

* Hunmorph: open source word analysis (Jointly with V. Tron, Gy. Gyepesi, P. Halacsy, L. Nemeth, and D. Varga). In ''Proc. ACL 2005 Software Workshop'' 77-8

* Leveraging the open source ispell codebase for minority language analysis (Jointly with P. Halacsy, L. Nemeth, A. Rung, I. Szakadat, and V. Tron). In ''J. Carson-Berndsen'' (ed): Proc. SALTMIL 2004 56-5

* Explicit Finitism, ''International Journal of Theoretical Physics'' 2003/2 301-30

* Mathematical Linguistics (Jointly with G.K. Pullum) In W. Frawley (ed): ''Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics'', Oxford University Press 2003, v3 17-2

* Optical Character Recognition, In W. Frawley (ed): ''Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics'', Oxford University Press 2003, v3 33-3

* How many words are there? Glottometrics 2002/4 61-8

* Zipf's law outside the middle range ''Proc. Sixth Meeting on Mathematics of Language'' University of Central Florida, 1999 347-35

* A Robust, Language-Independent OCR System. (Jointly with Z. Lu, I. Bazzi, J. Makhoul, P. Natarajan, and R. Schwartz) In: Robert J. Mericsko (ed): Proc. 27th AIPR Workshop: Advances in Computer-Assisted Recognition SPIE Proceedings 3584 199

* Quantitative Comparison of Languages. ''Grammars'' 1998/2 155-16

* The generative power of feature geometry. ''Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence'' 8 1993 37-4

* The X-bar Theory of Phrase Structure. (Jointly with G.K. Pullum) ''Language'' 66 1990 24-5

References

External links

Kornai's home page

Kornai's departmental page