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 Paul Kiparsky. 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 MetaCarta, where he worked on information extraction 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
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*''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