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 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 Jewish people ⓘ
linked to: Jews
familyName Bar-Hillel ⓘ
fieldOfWork formal linguistics ⓘ
information theory ⓘ
machine translation ⓘ
mathematical logic ⓘ
philosophy of language ⓘ
philosophy of science ⓘ
givenName Yehoshua ⓘ
linked to: Joshua
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 ⓘ
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 ⓘ
Vienna ⓘ
placeOfDeath Israel ⓘ
Jerusalem ⓘ

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Abraham Fraenkel → notableStudent → Yehoshua Bar-Hillel ⓘ
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel → name → Yehoshua Bar-Hillel ⓘ