Dr. Robert Frank

Biography

Robert Frank is a Professor at Yale University, specializing in Computational and Mathematical Linguistics with a focus on Syntax. He received his PhD in 1992 from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Computer Information Science. His research primarily explores computational models of language learning and processing, examining the role of computational constraints in linguistic explanation. Frank has worked extensively with Tree Adjoining Grammar formalism, contributing to syntactic theory. Prior to his position at Yale, he held faculty roles at Johns Hopkins University in Cognitive Science and at the University of Delaware in the field of Linguistics.

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