Zellig S. Harris 1909-1992 This web site is dedicated to the work of Zellig Harris in language, grammar, and information, and explores current related research in linguistics, computer science, mathematics, politics, and philosophy of science.
Major Contributions	Overview: development of a theory of language over a 60 year period Formal methods of analysis: linguistics as an empirical science, with applications in natural language processing, parsing, and generation. Theory of science sublanguages: applications in the organization and management of information in medicine, science, and technology. Theory of Information: applications in data processing, information extraction, information retrieval, knowledge acquisition and machine learning. Universal theory of language with applications in language comparison and classification, language acquisition, and language evolution.
Book	The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and Information into the 21st Century John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002 Volume 1: Philosophy of science, syntax, and semantics (CILT 228) Contents Foreword Volume 2: Computability of language and computer applications (CILT 229) Contents Foreword
Conference	The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and Information into the 21st Century University of Pennsylvania, January 2003 Symposium Program Proceedings
Computer Applications	Medical Language Processor Medical Language Extraction and Encoding ESPOIR Project Proteus Project
Book Reviews	The Legacy of Zellig Harris A grammar of English on Mathematical Principles Language and Information The Form of Information in Science The Transformation of Capitalist Society
In Remembrance	by William C. Watt by Henry Hiz by Peter Matthews by Bruce Nevin
Other Resources	Wikipedia: Zellig Harris Wikipedia: Operator Grammar The Research Community Bibliography A Minimalist Program for Linguistics Harris the Revolutionary: Phonemic Theory

This site is maintained by Stephen B. Johnson
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University