Towards Discourse Meaning

 By Aravind K. Joshi

Short Bio:

Aravind K. Joshi received his undergraduate education in India (University of Poona and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.  He is now the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS) at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Past President of the Association for Computational Linguistics, a Fellow of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), and a Founding Fellow of the AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence). He was awarded the Research Excellence Award of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI (1997). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. In 2002 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2002 and in 2003 he won the David Rumelhart Award form the Cognitive Science Society. Professor Joshi works in the areas of computational linguistics, mathematical and processing models of language, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science.