Haldur Õim (born 22 January 1942 in

Helme Parish ) , leader_name = Tarmo Tamm , area_total_km2 = 312.73 , population_total = 2525 , population_as_of = 01.01.2009 , population_density_km2 = auto , website www.helme.ee Helme Parish ( et ...

(now Tõrva Parish)) is an Estonian linguist. In 1965 he graduated from

Tartu State University The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest ...

in Estonian philology. Since 1969 he has taught at the Tartu of Tartu (since 1992, a professor). From 1981 until 1984, he taught Estonian language at the University of Helsinki. His main fields of research have been theoretical linguistics,

computational linguistics Computational linguistics is an Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions. In general, comput ...

, semantics, pragmatics. Since 1994 he is a member of

Estonian Academy of Sciences Founded in 1938, the Estonian Academy of Sciences ( et, Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia) is Estonia's national academy of science in Tallinn. As with other national academies, it is an independent group of well-known scientists whose stated aim is to ...

. Awards: * 2001:

Order of the White Star The Order of the White Star ( et, Valgetähe teenetemärk; french: Ordre de l'Etoile Blanche) was instituted in 1936. The Order of the White Star is bestowed on Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic ...

, IV class. * 2005: Wiedemann Language Award

Works

* Semantika (1974) * Towards a theory of linguistic pragmatics. – Journal of Pragmatics 1977, 1, 2 * Inimene, keel ja arvuti ehk kompuuterlingvistika (1983) * Language understanding and problem solving: on the relationiship between computational linguistics and artificial intelligence. – Computational Linguistics. An International Handbook (1989) * Eesti keeleteadusliku mõtte areng XX sajandil. – Keel ja Kirjandus 2000, 7 * Eesti keele tehnoloogilised ressursid ja vahendid: arvutikorpused, arvutisõnastikud, keeletehnoloogiline tarkvara (2003, one of the authors) * Estonian language technology – where do we stand? – Languages in development (2003, with E. Meister)

References

1942 births Living people People from Tõrva Parish Linguists from Estonia Estonian philologists University of Tartu alumni Academic staff of the University of Tartu Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 4th Class {{Estonia-academic-bio-stub