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Fred Popowich, Professor of Computing Science


Area: Natural Language Processing

Email: popowich@cs.sfu.ca
Home Page: http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~popowich/

Office: TASC 9423
Phone: +1.778.782.4193
Fax: +1.778.782.3045

Biography

Education

B.Sc. Computing Science, University of Alberta, 1982
M.Sc. Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, 1985
Ph.D. Cognitive Science/Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 1989

Work History

Professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University

Other Positions Held

Director and Vice President (Technology Roadmap) of the Canadian Language Industry Association (AILIA)

Research Interests

My research is concerned with how computers can be used to process human language, either to make it easier for human beings to interact with computers, or to make it easier for human beings to interact with each other. As such, I have been concerned with how knowledge about language and the world can be represented, maintained and even learned by computers. Typical real world applications of this research include the automatic translation of language, tools to assist people in learning language, and tools to help people search and manage the information contained on computer systems.

Publications

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