Haldur Õim (born 22 January 1942 in

Helme Parish Helme Parish () was a rural Municipalities of Estonia, municipality of Estonia, in Valga County. It had a population of 2,525 (as of 1 January 2009) and an area of 312.73 km2. Geography Populated places There was Populated places in Esto ...

(now

Tõrva Parish Tõrva Parish () is a rural municipality in Valga County. It includes the town of Tõrva. Settlements ;Town Tõrva ;Boroughs Helme, Hummuli ;Villages Aitsra, Ala, Alamõisa, Holdre, Jeti, Jõgeveste, Kalme, Karjatnurme, Karu, Ka ...

)) is an

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

n linguist. In 1965 he graduated from

Tartu State University The University of Tartu (UT; ; ) is a Public university, public research university located in the city of Tartu, Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is also the largest and oldest university in the country.University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki (, ; UH) is a public university in Helsinki, Finland. The university was founded in Turku in 1640 as the Royal Academy of Åbo under the Swedish Empire, and moved to Helsinki in 1828 under the sponsorship of Alexander ...

. His main fields of research have been

theoretical linguistics Theoretical linguistics is a term in linguistics that, like the related term general linguistics, can be understood in different ways. Both can be taken as a reference to the theory of language, or the branch of linguistics that inquires into the ...

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

semantics Semantics is the study of linguistic Meaning (philosophy), meaning. It examines what meaning is, how words get their meaning, and how the meaning of a complex expression depends on its parts. Part of this process involves the distinction betwee ...

pragmatics In linguistics and the philosophy of language, pragmatics is the study of how Context (linguistics), context contributes to meaning. The field of study evaluates how human language is utilized in social interactions, as well as the relationship ...

. Since 1994 he is a member of

Estonian Academy of Sciences Founded in 1938, the Estonian Academy of Sciences (, ) 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 promote research and develo ...

. Awards: * 2001:

Order of the White Star The Order of the White Star (; ) was instituted in 1936. The Order of the White Star is bestowed on Estonian citizens and foreigners to give recognition for services rendered to the Estonian state. Design Classes The Order of the White Star ...

, IV class. * 2005:

Wiedemann Language Award Wiedemann Language Award (, full name The State F. J. Wiedemann Language Award) is an Estonian state award which is granted each year to one natural person for outstanding merits upon study, organisation, teaching, promotion or use of the Estonia ...

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