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Dr. Fred Popowich is a recognized authority in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Over the course of his twenty-year research career he has produced over fifty refereed publications on the subject. His work in the Natural Language Processing Laboratory at Simon Fraser University is internationally recognized, and has been reflected in articles in the popular press in Wired, The Wall Street Journal, and the Globe and Mail. Dr. Popowich is a key figure in the field of computational studies and a past president of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence. He is a founding member of the AILIA Language Industry Association (http://www.ailia.ca), where he is chairing the committee responsible for a language technology roadmap for Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1989 and currently holds the position of Professor of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. He and his colleagues jointly founded Gavagai Technology in 1999, which became Axonwave Software in 2003, and have developed technologies for sophisticated classification, filtering, monitoring and retrieval of unstructured information, using natural language processing techniques. Dr. Popowich and his team have built the company from a university lab team to a booming start-up business recognized by the local high-tech community as being one of BC’s most promising ventures. |
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