William Aaron Woods

William Aaron Woods
Born (1942-06-17) June 17, 1942 (age 82)
Alma materOhio Wesleyan University
Harvard University
Known forKL-ONE[8]
Semantic networks
Knowledge representation and reasoning[9]
AwardsAssociation for Computational Linguistics Lifetime Achievement Award[1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsAlphabet
Sun Microsystems[2]
ITA Software
BBN Technologies[3][4]
ON Technology
Applied Expert Systems, Inc.[5]
Ohio Wesleyan University
Harvard University[6]
ThesisSemantics for a Question Answering System (1968)
Doctoral advisorSusumu Kuno[7]
Doctoral studentsSteven Salzberg[7]
Bonnie Webber[7]
Ronald J. Brachman
Websitewww.parsecraft.com Edit this at Wikidata

William Aaron Woods (born June 17, 1942), generally known as Bill Woods, is a researcher in natural language processing, continuous speech understanding, knowledge representation, and knowledge-based search technology. He is currently a Software Engineer at Google.[10]

  1. ^ Woods, W. A. (2010). "The Right Tools: Reflections on Computation and Language". Computational Linguistics. 36 (4): 601–630. doi:10.1162/coli_a_00018. S2CID 12780794.
  2. ^ Woods, W. A. (2004). "Searching vs. Finding". Queue. 2 (2): 26–35. doi:10.1145/988392.988405.
  3. ^ Woods, W. A. (1973). "Progress in natural language understanding". Proceedings of the June 4-8, 1973, national computer conference and exposition on - AFIPS '73. p. 441. doi:10.1145/1499586.1499695. S2CID 18770241.
  4. ^ Woods, W. (1982). "Optimal search strategies for speech understanding control". Artificial Intelligence. 18 (3): 295–326. doi:10.1016/0004-3702(82)90025-X. S2CID 1296226.
  5. ^ Woods, W. A. (1987). "Don't blame the tool". Computational Intelligence. 3: 228–237. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8640.1987.tb00211.x. S2CID 60510115.
  6. ^ Woods, W. A. (1970). "Transition network grammars for natural language analysis". Communications of the ACM. 13 (10): 591–606. doi:10.1145/355598.362773. S2CID 18366823.
  7. ^ a b c William Aaron Woods at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  8. ^ Woods, W. A.; Schmolze, J. G. (1992). "The KL-ONE family". Computers & Mathematics with Applications. 23 (2–5): 133. doi:10.1016/0898-1221(92)90139-9.
  9. ^ Woods, W. A. (1986). "Important issues in knowledge representation". Proceedings of the IEEE. 74 (10): 1322–1334. doi:10.1109/PROC.1986.13634. S2CID 7363835.
  10. ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-woods-9b2b4b31/ [self-published source]