| | Henry S. Thompson is a Reader in the Department of Artificial Intelligence and the Centre for Cognitive Science at the University of Edinburgh, where he is also a member of the Human Communication Research Centre. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980. His university education was divided between Linguistics and Computer Science, in which he holds an M.Sc. His research interests are in the area of Natural Language and Speech processing, from both the applications and Cognitive Science perspectives. Particular projects he has been involved with include the creation of spoken and written language corpora, the use of real language in linguistic theory and practice, and the creation of tools and architectures for SGML-based processing of language data. He is a member of the W3C SGML Working Group, and has advised both the British government and the Commission of the European Community on strategic planning in the areas of speech and language technology. |
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