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Veronica Dahl, Professor of Computing ScienceArea: Logic Programming, Computational Linguistics, Deductive Knowledge Bases, Bioinformatics
Office: TASC 9415 |
Biography
Education
Doctorat de Specialite en Intelligence Artificielle, Univ. Aix-Marseille II, 1977DEA en Intelligence Artificielle, Univ. Aix-Marseille II, 1976
Computador Cientifico, Buenos Aires University, 1975
Work History
Professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser UniversityAssociate Faculty in Bioinformatics
Other Positions Held
Director, Logic and Functional Programming GroupPresident, Association for Logic Programming. (See A word with the President, part I, part 2, vol. 14, numbers 2/ 3, May/Aug 2001)
Co-Chair, PADL'03
Area Coordinator (Natural Language Processing), Compulog Americas
Coordinator of the SIG Computational Logic and Natural Language Processing (CL&NLP) (a joint initiative of Compulog Net and Compulog Americas)
Permanent member of the Organizing Committee for Logic Programming Conferences
Research Interests
- Development of logic programming, logic grammar methodologies and related theories for solving interesting problems in computational linguistics, deductive databases and intelligent systems. Sample applications using these methodologies include: an English parser using linguistic theory by Chomsky known as Barriers; a translator of American Sign Language into database consultation language, an automatic design system that uses constraint logic programming for producing computer configurations upon demand; a typed hierarchy system for deductive databases; a front end for consulting databases in English, Spanish or French; a generator of machine error messages in English using Chomsky's Government-Binding theory; a French/English translator for agricultural reports; etc.