Jürgen Wedekind RIP
It is with great sadness that we hear about the passing of Jürgen
Wedekind (1956-2021). Jürgen made seminal contributions to LFG and
unification-based grammars, including the use of classical logics in
describing feature-based grammars, properties of machine translation and
complexity and decidability of generation with feature-based grammars,
with a string of publications in the journal of Computational
Linguistics (1999, 2012, 2014 and 2020). Jürgen was our colleague at
IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany (1985-1996), a research scientist
at the University of Tübingen, Germany (1996-1999), a senior researcher
and graduate course director at the Center for Language Technology and
the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (1999-2021) and a frequent
visiting scholar and consultant at XEROX PARC, California. Jürgen
obtained his PhD in 1990, and his Habilitation in 1998. We miss Jürgen
as a colleague and a friend. We share our sorrow with Jürgen's family.
Anette, Thierry and Josef
