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Khalil in Turkey
"I see (bi-)trees everywhere".

Science and Experiment

"The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific 'truth'. But what is the source of knowledge? Where do the laws that are to be tested come from? Experiment, itself, helps to produce these laws, in the sense that it gives us hints. But also needed is imagination to create from these hints the great generalizations — to guess at the wonderful, simple, but very strange patterns beneath them all, and then to experiment to check again whether we have made the right guess." Richard Feynman

Frederick Jelinek  [Read obituary]

Khalil Sima'an
Associate Professor


University of Amsterdam
Faculty of Science
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Email: k dotsymbol simaan atsymbol uva dotsymbol nl
Tel: +31 20 525 6573
Fax: +31 20 525 5206

Research Interests
: Statistical natural language processing; machine translation; parsing; morpho-syntactic parsing; machine learning and data mining; natural language engineering; cognitive models of human language and communication.



Recent highlights

Teaching and Research Topics
  • Statistical Parsing; Probabilistic Grammars
  • Statistical Machine Translation
  • Statistical Estimation/Learning
  • Models of Language Processing
  • Algorithms and Computational Complexity
More than formal linguistics and logic: The case for Prediction and Learning


Software and Data Packages I contributed to creating

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Contact information
  • Postal address: P.O. Box 94242, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Visiting address: Room 3.116 A , Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam,The Netherlands
  • Email: k dotsymbol simaan atsymbol uva dotsymbol nl
  • Tel: +31 20 525 6573
  • Fax: +31 20 525 5206