Semantics

The author's aim is to present the conceptual and formal tools required for building semantic systems capable of understanding text, both for specific tasks such as information extraction and question answering, and for broad undertakings such as the Semantic Web. His goal is to present the fundamental ideas that working systems rest on, and the textbook is aimed primarily at computer science and engineering students interested in developing semantic systems.

András Kornai received his PhD in mathematics from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest in 1983, and earned a PhD in linguistics in 1991 from Stanford University. He is adjunct professor at the Budapest Institute of Technology, where he works on an open source Hungarian morphological analyzer. He was Chief Scientist at MetaCarta where he worked on information extraction, and before that he was Chief Scientist at Northern Light. His research interests include all mathematical aspects of natural language processing, speech recognition, and OCR.