Manfred Pinkal

Pinkal’s work is centered around representation and processing of natural-language meaning, both in the frameworks of truth-conditional and distributional semantics, with a special focus on vagueness, ambiguity, and the interaction of meaning and context. Since 1990, he is teaching as a professor of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University. He was co-founder and principal investigator of two Collaborative Research Centers and founding speaker of the International Post-Graduate College “Language Technology and Cognitive Systems” of German Science Foundation (DFG). Since 2007, he has been deputy director of the Cluster of Excellence “Multi-Modal Computing and Interaction” (MMCI) Archived 2014-02-11 at the Wayback Machine.

Pinkal was the first computational linguist to win the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. He is member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur at Mainz.

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