Yehoshua Bar-Hillel

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Yehoshua Bar-Hillel was an Israeli mathematician, philosopher, and pioneering logician best known for his foundational work in formal linguistics and machine translation.

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instanceOf Israeli person
human
linguist
logician
mathematician
philosopher
birthDate 1915-09-03
coAuthor Rudolf Carnap
countryOfCitizenship Austro-Hungarian Empire
surface form: Austria-Hungary

Israel
deathDate 1975-09-25
educatedAt Hebrew University of Jerusalem
University of Vienna
employer Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ethnicGroup Jews
surface form: Jewish people
familyName Bar-Hillel
fieldOfWork formal linguistics
information theory
machine translation
mathematical logic
philosophy of language
philosophy of science
givenName Joshua
surface form: Yehoshua
influenced formal semantics in linguistics
theory of machine translation
influencedBy Alfred Tarski
Rudolf Carnap
knownFor contributions to formal semantics
foundational work in formal linguistics
pioneering work in machine translation
work on information theory and semantics
languageSpoken English
German
Hebrew
memberOf Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
militaryService British Army
Haganah
movement analytic philosophy
name Yehoshua Bar-Hillel self-link
notableIdea Bar-Hillel–Carnap paradox
notableWork Essays on Language, Information and Communication
Foundations of Language
Language and Information
Logical Syntax and Semantics
occupation university teacher
placeOfBirth Austria-Hungary ONNED1
Vienna
placeOfDeath Israel
Jerusalem

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Abraham Fraenkel notableStudent Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel name Yehoshua Bar-Hillel self-link