Paul Smolensky
Academic
1955 –
Who is Paul Smolensky?
Paul Smolensky is a professor of Cognitive Science at the Johns Hopkins University.
Along with Alan Prince he developed Optimality Theory, a representational model of linguistics. Optimality Theory is popularly used for phonology, the subfield to which it was originally applied, but has been extended to other areas of linguistics such as syntax and semantics.
Smolensky is the recipient of the 2005 Rumelhart Prize for his pursuit of the ICS Architecture, a model of cognition that aims to unify Connectionism and symbolism, where the symbolic representations and operations are manifested as abstractions on the underlying connectionist networks. Among his other important ideas is the notion of local conjunction of constraints - the idea that two constraints can combine into a single constraint that is violated only when both of its conjuncts are violated. Local conjunction has been applied to the analysis of various "additive" effects in Optimality Theory. With Bruce Tesar, Smolensky has also contributed significantly to the study of the learnability of Optimality Theoretic grammars.
He is a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing.
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- Born
- May 5, 1955
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Bachelor of Science, Harvard University
Physics
( - 1976) - PhD, Indiana University Bloomington
Mathematical physics
( - 1981)
- Bachelor of Science, Harvard University
- Employment
- Johns Hopkins University
- Lived in
- Lutherville
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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