- Paul Smolensky
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birth_date = Birth date and age|1955|5|5|mf=y
name = Paul Smolensky
residence = United States
nationality = USA
field =Cognitive science
work_institution =The Johns Hopkins University
alma_mater =Harvard University ,Indiana University
known_for = Optimality theory, phonology, syntax, acquisition, learnability, processing
prizes = David E. Rumelhart Prize for Theoretical Contributions to Cognitive Science, 2005
website = [http://www.cog.jhu.edu/faculty/smolensky/ at JHU]Paul Smolensky (born
May 5 ,1955 ) is a professor ofCognitive Science at theJohns Hopkins University . WithAlan Prince he developedOptimality Theory , a representational model oflinguistics . Optimality Theory is popularly used forphonology , the subfield to which it was originally applied, but has been extended to other areas oflinguistics such assyntax andsemantics .Smolensky is the recipient of the 2005
Rumelhart Prize for his pursuit of the ICS Architecture, a model of cognition that aims to unifyConnectionism and symbolism, where the symbolic representations and operations are manifested as abstractions on the underlying connectionist networks. Among his other important ideas is the notion oflocal conjunction of constraints - the idea that two constraints can combine into a single constraint that is violated only when both of its conjuncts are violated. Local conjunction has been applied to the analysis of various "additive" effects in Optimality Theory. WithBruce Tesar (Rutgers University ), Smolensky has also contributed significantly to the study of the learnability of Optimality Theoretic grammars.He is a member of the
Center for Language and Speech Processing .ee also
* [http://www.cog.jhu.edu/faculty/smolensky Paul Smolensky Homepage at Johns Hopkins]
* [http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/derprize David E. Rumelhart Prize]Persondata
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=American cognitive scientist
DATE OF BIRTH=May 5 ,1955
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