Mark Steedman#
| Membership Number: | 2349 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2006 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/steedman |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1998 – 2010 Director, Institute for Language, Cognition, and Computation (ILCC, formerly ICCS)
- since 1998 University of Edinburgh, Professor of Cognitive Science, School of Informatics; also AdjunctProfessor, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
- 1992 – 1998 University of Pennsylvania, Professor, Dept. of Computer and Information Science
- 1988 – 1992 University of Pennsylvania, Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer and Information Science
- 1986 – 1988 University of Edinburgh: Reader in Computational Linguistics, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence and Centre for Cognitive Science
- 1983 – 1986 University of Edinburgh: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence and Centre for Cognitive Science
- 1976 – 1983 University of Warwick: Lecturer, Dept. of Psychology
- 1973 – 1976 University of Sussex: Research Fellow, Centre for Research into Perception and Cognition, with Prof. P.N. Johnson-Laird
- 1972 – 1973 University of Edinburgh: Research Fellow, School of Artificial Intelligence, with Professor H.C. Longuet-Higgins FRS
- 1969 – 1972 University of Edinburgh: Research Associate, School of Artificial Intelligence, under Professor H.C. Longuet-Higgins FRS
Fields of Scholarship
- Computational musical analysis
- Computational linguistics
- Combinatory logic
- Animated conversational agents
- Spoken intonation
- Spoken language processing
- Artificial intelligence
- Cognitive science
- Statistical parsing
Honours and Awards
- 1993 Fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence
- 2002 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 2002 Fellow of the British Academy
- 2006 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2008 Fellow of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, SSAISB
- Member of Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation
- President elect for 2008 of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- 2013 Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- 2015 President Elect, ACL SIGDAT
