{{short description|British computational linguist (born 1946)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2017}} {{Use British English|date=October 2017}} '''Mark Jerome Steedman''' (born 18 September 1946) is a British computational linguist and cognitive scientist.
==Biography== Steedman graduated from the University of Sussex in 1968, with a B.Sc. in Experimental Psychology, and from the University of Edinburgh in 1973, with a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (Dissertation: ''The Formal Description of Musical Perception''<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Steedman |first=Mark J. |date=1972 |title=The Formal Description of Musical Perception |type=PhD |publisher=University of Edinburgh |hdl=1842/8128}}</ref> gained in 1972. Advisor: Prof. H.C. Longuet-Higgins FRS).
He has held posts as Lecturer in Psychology, University of Warwick (1977–83); Lecturer and Reader in Computational Linguistics, University of Edinburgh (1983–8); Associate and full Professor in Computer and Information Sciences, University of Pennsylvania (1988–98). He has held visiting positions at the University of Texas at Austin, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen, and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Steedman currently holds the Chair of Cognitive Science in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh (1998– ). He works in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science, on Generation of Meaningful Intonation for Speech by Artificial Agents, Animated Conversation, The Communicative Use of Gesture, Tense and Aspect, and combinatory categorial grammar (CCG). He is also interested in Computational Musical Analysis and combinatory logic.
== Distinctions == * Member of the Academia Europæa (2006) * Fellow of the British Academy (2002). * Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2002) * AAAI Fellow (1993) * President elect for 2008 of the Association for Computational Linguistics * Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2012)<ref>{{cite web |title=ACL Fellows |url=https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/ACL_Fellows#2012_Fellows |website=Association for Computational Linguistics |access-date=15 August 2017}}</ref>
== Principal publications == * {{cite book | last = Steedman | first = Mark | title = Surface structure and interpretation | series = Linguistic Inquiry Monograph | volume = 30 | publisher = MIT Press | date = 1996 | isbn = 978-0-262-19379-5 | page = 123 | df = dmy-all | location = Cambridge, MA }} * {{cite book | last = Steedman | first = Mark | title = The Syntactic Process | series = Language, Speech, and Communication | publisher = MIT Press | date = 2000 | isbn = 978-0-262-69268-7 | page = 344 | df = dmy-all | location = Cambridge, MA }} * {{cite journal | last = Steedman | first = Mark | title = Information Structure and the Syntax-Phonology Interface | journal = Linguistic Inquiry | volume = 31 | issue = 4 | pages = 649–689 | date = Fall 2000 | doi = 10.1162/002438900554505 | s2cid = 9084597 | issn = 0024-3892 | url = https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050&context=ircs_reports }}
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== External links == * [http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~steedman/ Mark Steedman's Home Page] * [http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-list.php Elected AAAI Fellows] * [http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/fellowship/fellowship.htm Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh] * [http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Fellows ACL Fellows]
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