Jerry Hobbs
| Jerry Hobbs | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 25, 1942 |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Computer sciences |
| Institutions | SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center |
| Alma mater | New York University |
| Doctoral advisor |
Jacob T. Schwartz Naomi Sager |
| Doctoral students |
Feng Pan Rutu Mulkar |
| Notable awards | Association for Computational Linguistics Lifetime Achievement Award (2013) |
Jerry R. Hobbs (born January 25, 1942) is a prominent American researcher in the fields of computational linguistics, discourse analysis, and artificial intelligence.
He earned his doctor's degree from New York University in 1974 in computer science. He has taught at Yale University and the City University of New York.
From 1977 to 2002 he was with the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International, Menlo Park, California, where he was a principal scientist and program director of the Natural Language Program. He has written numerous papers in the areas of parsing, syntax, semantic interpretation, information extraction, knowledge representation, encoding commonsense knowledge, discourse analysis, the structure of conversation, and the Semantic Web.
He is the author of the book Literature and Cognition, and was also editor of the book Formal Theories of the Commonsense World. He led SRI's text-understanding research, and directed the development of the abduction-based TACITUS system for text understanding, and the FASTUS system for rapid extraction of information from text based on finite-state automata. The latter system constituted the basis for an SRI spinoff, Discern Communications. In September 2002 he took a position as senior computer scientist and research professor at the Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California. He has been a consulting professor with the Linguistics Department and the Symbolic Systems Program at Stanford University.
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