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The Association for Mathematics of Language (SIGMOL) inaugural S.Y. Kuroda Prize has been awarded to Sussex computer scientist Professor David Weir, for his work on natural language processing.

Professor Weir and his colleagues Professor Aravid K. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) and Professor Vijay Shanker (University of Delaware) were awarded the prize in January.

According to the SIGMOL website, “The territory that was opened by the work of Joshi, Shanker, and Weir has fostered an enormous body of research in computational linguistics and natural language processing, and has sustained a community of researchers that goes far beyond the direct academic descendants of the three researchers whose work is now honoured with this prize.”

The team was lauded for its work on mildly context-sensitive (MCS) formalisms within computational linguistics.

The prize, which is awarded for long-lasting advancements in the field, is named after Sige-Yuki Kuroda, a pioneer in modern linguistics.

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