Biography:Kimmo Koskenniemi

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Kimmo Koskenniemi, 2012

Kimmo Matti Koskenniemi (born 7 September 1945[1][2]) is the inventor of finite-state two-level models for computational phonology and morphology. He was a professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Helsinki, Finland . In the early 1980s Koskenniemi's work became accessible by early adopters such as Lauri Karttunen, Ronald M. Kaplan and Martin Kay, first at the University of Texas Austin,[3] later at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.[4]

This application of finite-state transducers to phonology and morphology was initially implemented for Finnish, but it soon proved to be useful for other languages with complex morphology such as Basque [5] and Swahili.[6]

Bibliography

  • Koskenniemi, Kimmo 1983: Two-level morphology : a general computational model for word-form recognition and production. Publications (Helsingin yliopisto. Yleisen kieliteteen laitos 11)

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